Analyzing Big Data at Twitter (Web 2.0 Expo NYC Sep 2010)

Analyzing Big Data at Twitter (Web 2.0 Expo NYC Sep 2010)

This is a pretty good, yet simple presentation from a researcher at Twitter. I encourage database, and particularly data mining students to take a few minutes to go through the slides and get an appreciation of the amount of data that we're dealing with. For the most part, as Kevin indicates, we have some good tools that can answer some interesting questions about this enormous data repository. The problem often comes down to asking the right questions about our data.

Cool stuff. Thanks, Kevin.

4 Steps To Taming The Job Search Beast

If you are a student at the final stages of your academic career, you are probably already in the midst of conducting your own job search (or, you have decided that not having a job is much better, which represents a growing reason why many students choose graduate school. This is particularly true in this economy. Despite the economy, you will want other reasons that will carry you through the hard work ahead of you. Real-world avoidance is not a good one!) Looking for a job can be a very grueling, emotional process for many students, and even more difficult for those that were employed and lost their job. This is a good article that gives some decent advice that will help you manage and conquer this "beast" ahead of you. I think you'll find it helpful regardless of the field that you are in.

Article: 4 Steps To Taming The Job Search