Ben Lorica

The O’Reilly Data Show podcast: A fireside chat with Ben Horowitz, plus Reynold Xin on the rise of Apache Spark in China.

Comprehensive metadata collection and analysis can pave the way for many interesting applications.

A new crop of interesting solutions for the complexity of operating multiple systems in a distributed computing setting.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ihab Ilyas on building data wrangling and data enrichment tools in academia and industry.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Patrick Wendell on the state of the Spark ecosystem.

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Carlos Guestrin on the early days of GraphLab and the evolution of GraphLab Create.

Rajiv Maheswaran talks about the tools and techniques required to analyze new kinds of sports data.

Graph data is an area that has attracted many enthusiastic entrepreneurs and developers

I previously looked into the Top 100 Paid apps (henceforth known as the top-sellers) and found that their average price has been declining. In this post, I’ll examine which iTunes categories† are producing the most top-sellers. In terms of number of unique apps, all the categories have grown rapidly over the last two months, with Sports, Education, and Entertainment posting...

Within a few months, Myspace has quietly built an application platform with over twelve hundred applications. I previously posted a graph for Facebook app categories, in which I compared the categories using the number of active users. Unlike the older Facebook platform, Myspace only provides the number of installs: It took a few months before Facebook started publishing active usage...