Via LANYRD In this brief video, Jonathan Seidman and Ramesh Venkataramiah discuss the use of Hadoob, Hive for doing analytics on 500 GB /day data that gets generated via Orbitz. A website like Orbitz generates millions of searches each day. Storing and processing the ever-growing volumes of data generated by all of those searches becomes prohibitive though traditional systems such as relational databases. This presentation details how Orbitz is using new tools such as Hadoop and Hive to meet these challenges.

Visualization of data is one of the key components of analysis. The better the visual, the better the insight in to the data patterns. “Color” in a graphic is one of the key elements and in this aspect, Cartography provides valuable lessons. Via Colorbrewer **: ** Different Schemes of colouring can be used based on the data requirements : Sequential schemes are suited to ordered data that progress from low to high.

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Barry Schwartz( Author of The Paradox of Choice ) , gives examples where Practical wisdom triumphs Rules and Incentives http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf

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