Recapping my social media activities during Jan 1 – Feb 24 2013:

Recapping my social media activities during Jan 1 – Feb 20 2013:

Interesting resource covering topics Opinion Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and Opinion Spam Detection: http://bit.ly/NGlNYD
SQL Server Technical Article: Leveraging a Hadoop cluster from SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) http://bit.ly/13aZWhx
querying Hive using SQL-like commands: http://on.fb.me/TDQujY
[Resource] Getting Started with Microsoft HDInsight http://bit.ly/Wru0zv #Hadoop #Microsoft
Reading: “Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms: #TDWI 2009 Q4 Best Practices Report”; Interesting stats on the total data volume that organizations manage: http://on.fb.me/ZnQ0O1
Presentation Tips: When you move, they look at you. When you stop, they look at the screen – http://bit.ly/uQ5Amf
“In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn’t be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers”
– Grace Hopper
Download Slides about Dr Dewitt’s PASS Talks [2008-2011] http://bit.ly/XrD2xa
WOW! Nice data visualization: interactive map Foursquare published last week? Check out Dallas: http://4sq.com/W3EIjo
[resource] Great answer on Quora on What is random forests? http://b.qr.ae/UErw4f
The marketing landscape has truly changed! Nice slide deck: http://slidesha.re/WGp3aj http://on.fb.me/VvZLs0
Learning about Google Analytics in Web Analytic’s course: http://on.fb.me/Uq8i4Z
World heat map showing Network Readiness Index 2012: http://bit.ly/12w5aqK http://on.fb.me/WPsvAf
Does High Speed Broadband Increase Economic Growth? Here’s the URL, consider thinking about it before reading it: http://onforb.es/OldnpW
Exploring Weka, a popular machine learning tool. http://on.fb.me/WXLsAM

That’s about it for this post.

If we want to read related past posts, here they are:

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Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Noc 12 – Dec 31 (2012)

Big Data: The Coming Sensor Data Driven Productivity Revolution http://bit.ly/TQAPsW

Check out some nice getting started tutorials at beyondrelational site: http://bit.ly/RVVHRV

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple – Richard Branson

— via Paras Doshi – Blog http://on.fb.me/WAQ5ky

The success of companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix, not to mention Wall Street firms and industries from manufacturing to retail and healthcare, is increasingly driven by better tools for extracting meaning from very large quantities of data,” says Tim O’Reilly

— via Paras Doshi – Blog http://on.fb.me/WAQ5ky

Nice collection of about 20+ videos around the topic of “Data Science”: http://bit.ly/WMkZqc

Nice collection of videos by Berkeley school of information: http://bit.ly/Tf1yAD #Information #Data

Just found Facebook’s data team’s page: http://on.fb.me/ToYILO

via V Talk Tech – A Parth Acharya Blog – Nice HeatMap of stocks! http://on.fb.me/SfBbvF

what’s the biggest fear about cloud computing? via Windows Azure http://on.fb.me/VjIiHR

Resource: Presentations from the Sentiment Analysis Symposium http://bit.ly/VtPH3B

If I switched to the newest “holiday” theme on WordPress, this is how it would look: http://on.fb.me/UEuyFr

Nice! Code School now has R programming language! I have been playing with R for a while now and definitely want to learn more – here’s the link to learn R: http://bit.ly/VEAnkZ

Interesting tool from Google to optimize and analyze web page speeds: http://bit.ly/HTubNC

Performed #sentiment #Analysis on #starbucks twitter data using #R ! It was fun! http://on.fb.me/Z3qLo8

In 2002: The Data Warehousing Institute estimates that data quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion a year. And of course, over the past 10 years, this number would be bigger. http://bit.ly/TPT9r3

Reading: Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence? http://bit.ly/YUtJwx

Big data is a nickname for the recent increase in largely external and unstructured business and consumer information. How are businesses across industries harnessing traditional enterprise information management functions and systems to translate big data into useful business intelligence? http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Services/additional-services/deloitte-analytics-service/217c19e69249b310VgnVCM2000003356f70aRCRD.htm

For business analytics professionals: 12 webcasts on Jan 30th 2013 http://bit.ly/RUFsZ3 #sqlpass #analytics #24hop

Some nice insights about how to build an Internet platform, from the founder of Zipcar: http://bit.ly/Yco6IP

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Two ideas to make your social network activities “Searchable”:

Some time back, I wanted to search one of my own social network post. It was a resource I had shared and somehow I was not able to “google” it (again). I eventually found it – but it took me 15 odd minutes to scroll down to my twitter feed. It was NOT fun! And I thought to myself – there’s got to be a better way! And I thought – It’ll be great if I solve it for not just Twitter but all my social network activities that includes LinkedIn, Facebook Pages, Google+. So here’s couple of things thats working for me, I hope it helps someone out there too:

Now, before we begin when I say “Searchable” – I mean searchable by YOU (or a human being) and not necessarily search engines. But it turns out, both my ideas increase your chances of getting your social media activities Indexed! With that, Here are the ideas:

1) Syndicate your Social Network Activities (Posts/Images/Updates) to Tumblr/Blogger

I use IFTTT to syndicate my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn activities to Blogger

2) Create a post about your social network activities on your blog:

Here’s an Example: Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 19 – Nov 11

Though Idea #2’s main goal is to keep my blog readers updated about my social network activities – But it also acts as a good way to make my social media posts “searchable”.

And remember I said earlier that the chances of your social network posts getting indexed by search engines increases? That’s because WordPress, Tumblr & Blogger’s posts are accessible by Google (unless you choose to block it). So that’s about it for this post. If you like the idea(s), please let me know! And if you have other ideas – also let me know, I am always looking for ways to make my social media activities easily searchable to me as well as for anyone else.

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Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 19 – Nov 11

The Goal of this series is to recap the conversations that I’m having on social networks and I do not want my Blog readers to miss that. So Here is the recap of last three weeks:

1. I was at SQL PASS 2012!

2. A nice Dashboard!

3. Learn to build an Enterprise Information management system using SSIS, DQS and MDS:

http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/07/resource-learn-to-build-a-enterprise-information-management-system-using-data-quality-services-master-data-services-and-sql-server-integration-services/

5. I reached 2000 points on MSDN!

6. A nice video by Jeremy Howard on Predictive Analytics:

7. A nice data visualization via the Data Mining add-in excel

8. Get started on Hadoop on windows 7/server!

Download here: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/10/27/getting-started-with-hdinsight-a-k-a-microsofts-big-data-hadoop-platform-on-local-windows-machine/

Demo Here: http://parasdoshi.com/2012/11/02/end-to-end-demo-hadoop-hdinsight-hive-excel-power-view-azure-data-market/

9. I was at Give Camp 2012! if you do not know about “Give Camp”, then you should check it out!

Here’s last year’s (2011) post: http://parasdoshi.com/2011/10/24/i-gave-back-at-dallas-givecamp-and-why-i-think-every-software-professional-should-consider-doing-so-too/

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Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 3 – Oct 10 (parasdoshi.com)
Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 11 – Oct 18 (parasdoshi.com)
Getting started with HDInsight (a.k.a Microsoft’s Big Data hadoop Platform) on local Windows Machine! (parasdoshi.com)
How I think of what is KnowledgeBase in SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services (parasdoshi.com)
SQL Azure: Is there a “per transaction” cost for Windows Azue SQL Database? (parasdoshi.com)
Error in Importing KPI’s to Performance Point 2010 Dashboard designer from SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services MultiDimensional cube (parasdoshi.com)
How to Delete a Knowledge Base in SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services? (parasdoshi.com)

Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 11 – Oct 18

The Goal of this series is to recap the conversations that I’m having on social networks and I do not want my Blog readers to miss that. So Here is this week’s post:

WOW! Global Internet Traffic (in Peta Bytes Per Month):
27483 PB/Month!
via http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/

(Thanks Hardki pandya for sharing. Here’s his tweet: https://twitter.com/HPsay/status/258207371162181632 )

Also for the a related link:

https://www.facebook.com/suvendu.shekhar.giri said “This is really awesome and very informational ”

Patent wars: http://flowingdata.com/2012/10/08/patent-war/

Quote: One reason Wikipedia is still a popular source for information is because most people don’t know they can edit it themselves.

Via https://www.facebook.com/thedolt and Gaurang Patel (https://www.facebook.com/Gaurang.patel7 ) commented that: “Yes, Absolutely true,most people don;t know they can edit post them selves,and i think they don’t have other alternative to get quick information.”

https://www.facebook.com/janakiramm quote:

“Without Stackoverflow, 50% of the developers cannot continue to be developers and without Google, 80% of the developers cannot even claim to be developers!”

Status update: “I just worked on a SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Tutorial where I learned how to 1) create a new Model 2) Use MDS Excel Add – In to load entities to the model 3) use Master data manager web app 4) add a new member via MDM web app 5) And create a subscription view to retrieve entity members. if you want to do learn that: search for “SQL Server 2012 Developer Training kit“. Awesome resource!”

Shared a Resource: Introducing SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Improvements http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/SQL11UPD05-REC-03

SolidQ mentioned me a post about the Sep 2011 SolidQ Journal edition: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105279914944150120482/posts/cKh6hurWndj

SolidQ India (https://twitter.com/SolidQIndia) Re-Tweeted my post about “Blog: Why am I not seeing “Month Names” in correct logical order?” http://parasdoshi.com/2012/07/22/powerpivot-model-why-am-i-not-seeing-month-names-in-correct-logical-order/

9) Milena Petrovic said “Lovely Graph” for this graphic: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105010538932095629627/posts/2uvE5B2HSk5

Image Courtesy: From the webinar “How to Walk The Path from BI to Data Science: An interview with Michael Driscoll, data scientist and CEO of Metamarkets” – A global surge in Data

That’s about it. You can read last week’s post here: Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 3 – Oct 10

Let’s connect and converse on any of these people networks!

How I think of what is KnowledgeBase in SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services (parasdoshi.com)
How to Delete a Knowledge Base in SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services? (parasdoshi.com)
Steps I followed to Install SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (MDS) on my Demo Machine: (parasdoshi.com)
Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 3 – Oct 10 (parasdoshi.com)

Things I shared on Social Media Networks during Oct 3 – Oct 10

I am fairly active on social network channels. I engage with people on Social networks and I thought It would be great if my blog readers also get a recap of conversations I am having on different social networks and so I’ve thought of compiling a “Things I shared on Social Media networks during the week” . Here is the recap for the week of OCT 3 – OCT 10:

1. Gaurang Patel commented about the Blog: “Five things I like about RescueTime” on FB page: i am using this one it is really fantastic .

The blog is here: Five things I like about RescueTime:

2. Photo with a caption that I added: That’s the CLOUD.

Originally shared by Windows Azure account

3. Quote my APJ Abdul Kalam (Ex-President of India) . Did you knew that in 2011, I got a chance to meet him! Read here: Met revered APJ Abdul Kalam (Ex President, India) at an event organized by Times Foundation

4. Nice Data Visualization: Originally shared by https://www.facebook.com/avinash.kaushik and link to the source of the data Visualization: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/homepages/g100s2/public_html/history_of_life.htm

5. “I was working on Business Intelligence project requirement analysis. One requirement that I saw across all department: Need a data mart (single version of truth)”

This post was shared by SolidQ on Google+

6. On G+, SolidQ shared my post that I wrote a while Back. Here’s the post: Step by Step guide to Export a SQL Azure Database to Azure storage via Import and Export CTP

BTW, did you knew the same blog post was Re-Tweeted by Scott Gu on 31st Dec 2011! Yup!

7. RescueTime tweeted:

Check the end of this post to see how RescueTime user @Paras_Doshi was able to cut his social networking time in half! http://buff.ly/PlQfdg

8. SolidQ shared this post: “Earlier Today: delivered a two-hour session on PowerPivot and Power View to a client. they had some very Interesting questions for their scenario!”

https://plus.google.com/u/0/105010538932095629627/posts/2doLbjrQLLo

9. SolidQ shared this post on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/105010538932095629627/posts/dQVXEH7Zm1U

Data Visualization: Created HeatMap/TreeMap like the one shown below for a client. Looking forward to receiving their feedback. btw, I used the Black, Grey and white for the shades. image courtesy: http://www.labescape.com/info/articles/what-is-a-heat-map.html