Social Distancing Data with SafeGraph
The current covid-19 situation is affecting our digital life, how companies are trying to dig into location data and extract meaningful correlations. Google and Apple will be launching a user movement tracing solution which raises questions about user privacy. Another way is using anonymized GPS data that comes from smartphones.
Raspberry Pi 3 Cassandra cluster - part 1
The new version of RaspberryPi has just came out with loads of improved features, such as 1.2GHz quad-core processor, wireless LAN and bluetooth connections. You can create a RaspberryPI cluster without horrible cables. And the price is the same. This is the big thing.
So I decided to play around this tiny machines and building a 3 nodes Cassandra cluster with a 1 node Spark lead just to keep the database cluster busy with some open data source. I’m using a switch to connect nodes, not because it’s necessary, just because it looks cool, like a real server :-)
Women in data science
It’s really great to have greater and greater diversity on the IT field. Interesting panel with women data scientists:
Spark Summit 2015 videos
Spark Summit 2015 was in San Francisco and here are a bunch of really great videos of the presentations:
