My latest article on performing predictive modeling using document databases is now available on IBM developerWorks. The abstract:
Predictive analytics relies on processing, analyzing data from many different sources, collating, and then processing that through several stages into usable data. This involves recording and storing data in different formats, and may require translating information into PMML. Despite the complexities and structure of the information, and the sources often involving data from traditional RDBMS data sources, other solutions offer some advantages. We can use the recent range of document-based NoSQL databases to help collate the information in a structured format, while coping with the flexible structure of the individual data points. Many NoSQL environments also provide support for extensive map reduce type queries and processing that makes them ideal for processing large volumes of data into a summary format. In this article, we’ll look at the transfer, exchange, and formatting of information in NoSQL environments.
Fortunately the article was also chosen as a feature article for the entire developerWorks site, and came with call picture of an elephant sitting on a couch!
Part two of my introduction to programming Erlang is available on IBM developerWorks:
Erlang is a multi-purpose programming language that is primarily used for developing concurrent and distributed systems. Part 1 of this series introduced Erlang and how its functional programming style compares with other programming paradigms such as imperative, procedural, and object-oriented programming. In Part 2 you will use some of the advanced features and functionality, starting with basic functions and moving on to concurrent programming, processes, and messaging. These work together to support distributed programming, a powerful feature of Erlang.
I have a new article on programming in Erlang available on IBM developerWorks:
Erlang is a multi-purpose programming language used primarily for developing concurrent and distributed systems. It began as a proprietary programming language used by Ericsson for telephony and communications applications. Released as open source in 1998, Erlang has become more popular in recent years thanks to its use in high profile projects, such as the Facebook chat system, and in innovative open source projects, such as the CouchDB document-oriented database management system. In this article, you will learn about Erlang, and how its functional programming style compares with other programming paradigms such as imperative, procedural and object-oriented programming. You will learn how to create your first program, a Fibonacci recursive function. Next, you will go through the basics of the Erlang language, which can be difficult at first for those used to C, C++, Java™, and Python.
