Peadar Coyle published an interview with me about data science on his blog, here it is for your reference: Interview with a data scientist

In my first and second posts, I discussed fundamental principles behind data processing and showed how they enable or constrain the sorts of questions we can ask information systems. In this post, I will show how the framework of MapReduce processing determines the people-value side

In my last post I showed how traditional database technology is founded upon the concept of a relation and discussed how this had implications in terms of limiting the number of questions we could expect to answer from any given database.  In this post, I will

This is the first of a series of posts where I will investigate Big Data concepts at a very fundamental level.  If you have been reading my earlier posts which are pretty high level and accepted, bear with me for this post and the following