If you have ever wondered how we can connect Tableau to Elasticsearch, this blog post should be of some interest to you. As of Sep 2016, there is no native Elasticsearch connector provided by either Elastic or Tableau, but here’s a tool someone put together which seems to work but require some effort on the … More Connecting Tableau to Elasticsearch
Everything that is old is new again. That’s the feeling I get when I look at Spark, which I learned is one of the fastest growing Apache projects in the big data space. There is remarkable similarity in the underlying architecture between Spark and that of a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) Database like Greenplum or … More Apache Spark vs MPP Databases
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My Irrational Life
Updates on my research and expository papers, discussion of open problems, and other maths-related topics. By Terence Tao
Mental Models 4 Life 