My data & analytics musings

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus

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In God we trust, all others bring data

Attributed to W. Edwards Deming

Quoted in "Elements of statistical learning" by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman

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A blog about DBMS (database management) and analytic technologies -- especially disruptive ones -- by Curt Monash, the industry's premier analyst.

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Currently working on R and DB interfacing

I'm preparing a blog, to be hosted at http://www.smartinsightsfromdata.com, comparing the use of different DBs (SQL; NoSQL and NewSQL!) with R.  Therefore at the moment I'm having fun with PostgreSQL; InfiniDB and MonetDB. Planned SciDB and any other than I can install and test on my server.

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Epictetus and polyglot persistency

I’ve chosen the Epictetus saying for this blog because a) is a sailing reference; b) the use of more than one anchor implicitly refers to polyglot persistence & to the emerging trend in big data / nosql to use more than one tool (& the best tool if possible) for the job.