Data platforms and analytics
Publication
Cumulative Activation in Social Networks
Publication
Managing Messes in Computational Notebooks
Video
Scaling Write-Intensive Key-Value Stores
In recent years, the log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) has become the mainstream core data structure used by key-value stores to ingest and persist data quickly. LSM-tree enables fast writes by buffering incoming data in memory and…
Tool
Analytics Scripts for Azure Open Datasets
A set of Databricks and Azure notebook scripts that compute urban heat island effects for all major cities in the United States. Daily indices for each city are computed from January 1, 2008 to present…
Podcast
Froid and the relational database query quandary with Dr. Karthik Ramachandra
Episode 73, April 24, 2019 – In the world of relational databases, structured query language, or SQL, has long been King of the Queries, primarily because of its ubiquity and unparalleled performance. But many users…
