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Squaw Valley Time!
Grilled summer squash
Mid-Town Summer
Chicken and Spinich Lasagna
Killer. The key is the Béchamel
Big Data – Spike Volume
One aspect of Big Data is the arrival pattern of the data being stored/analyzed. Yesterdays Rangers win in the ALCS is a excellent example of this. At justSignal we monitor all of the MLB teams and when the Rangers won we experienced a phenomenal spike in data arrival. Right now – which is fairly representative… Continue reading Big Data – Spike Volume
Creativity Matters – The Decline of US Creativity
From an interview with Kyung Hee Kim Decrease in Elaboration after 1984: Elaboration scores (ability to develop and elaborate upon ideas and detailed and reflective thinking and motivation to be creative) decreased more than other subscales of the TTCT. Elaboration scores decreased by 19.41% from 1984 to 1990, by 24.62% from 1984 to 1998, and… Continue reading Creativity Matters – The Decline of US Creativity
Following the Trend @dbacksbooth on Twitter
Time for another update on the trend line for @dbacksbooth on Twitter. Not much to say beyond the staggering growth in the number of replies to the booth per day. I factored out the early spikes in July and mapped a trend line from August 1st through yesterday. I think the results are pretty impressive… Continue reading Following the Trend @dbacksbooth on Twitter
It is ALIVE – Twitter Search is Back To Full Speed
Not sure what was going on, and there was no mention of it on the Twitter status blog, but it now appears that Twitter Search (and the search API) is back to full speed. There is no question that all day yesterday and and today up until 12:00 Pacific Twitter search was not indexing all… Continue reading It is ALIVE – Twitter Search is Back To Full Speed
Something is DEFINITELY Not Right with Twitter Search
I get hourly emails that show me (graphically) how much justSignal “collects” total from each of the services (Twitter, Blog Search, Backtype, etc). The thing about these graphs is they are amazingly consistent over time – that is why we use them… you can quickly see a change in the normal trend. Yesterday I noticed… Continue reading Something is DEFINITELY Not Right with Twitter Search