Internet in China

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The internet as Americans and millions and perhaps billions of people around the world have used the internet freely and uncensored, but China and a few other countries have been trying really hard to censor/control the access of  content that it's citizens are allowed to view. In the United States about 78% of the populaation has access or willingly use the internet compared to the 36% of China. It's important to remember that those 36% are almost double the amount users than that of the United States.

This attempt at controlling the internet by the Chinese Government has some IT companies worried and abandoning the 1.3 Billion potential consumers within the country. Google,Inc. is a prime example of a leading IT company that has left China after it was being continuously hacked and told to censor and block out certain websites as part of the agreement between the Government and Google.  Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google is worried that Governments throughout the world will try to exert more control over the access of content that it's citizens have.

The Chinese government does not plan on easing up on it's endeavor of controlling its citizens access to content that paints the government in a bad light or gives its citizens knowledge about life in other countries. Since 2010 the government has been blocking search engine searches for the word "freedom". This type of censorship is worst because it does not allow for its citizens to compete in the future with the rest of the world in tech jobs because it would mean having big brother over your shoulder as you are working. Censorship has no place on the internet of the 21st century and ahead.

Twitter Infographic

create infographics with visual.ly This info graphic shows the numbers behind the twitter accounts of Kevin Durant and Dwayne Wade of the NBA. The beauty of the infographic is that it shows the information in an eye catching view and is easy to interpret and understand. 

Looking at the graph it is easy to see that Wade has more followers with 2.89 million compared to 1.64 million followers for Durant. Kevin Durant does have 1.2K : 1 follower to following ration unlike Wade who has a 8.5K. This shows that Durant is just a rising young star that stays in touch with fans and is more likely to follow fans than Dwayne Wade.

Looking at the Followers by region it is easy to see that Wade has a bigger followed base in the US compared to Durant. Both players have the potential to increase their follower base tremendously if either of their teams can win a Championship this season. Durant has the biggest twitter upside because of his engagement with followers and his basketball potential.

Twitter Sentiment

Twitter Sentiment

TweetTone

This is from Twitter Sentiment This is from TweetTone Comparing the two sentiment tools it is clear that Lebron James is not liked by the majority of the NBA Community. There are also alot of post regarding Kobe Bryant when users tweet about Lebron James. The ratings from the sentiment analysis do not carry over into the word cloud.

Splunk

1. What does Splunk do and offer ?
Splunk is a company founded around making machine data accessible and easy to use by everyone. Machine data is the part of big data that is collected by any and all interactions that a person has with a company. It includes websites, applications, servers and other computer devices used on a daily basis. Splunk provides analytics for clients to turn all that machne data, transaction, call records and so on into operational inteligence to allow clients to reach their target market.

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3. Evaluation of Splunk
Splunk has over 3300 customers world wide through more than 75 countries. Splunks service seems to be great and their personnel seem to passionate and well trained for them to be used by different enterprises big and small. Operational intelligence is helpful tool for any business big or small. The company seems well positioned for expansion in the growing machine data market.

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Indexing Data from any Source

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Cloudera

1.What is Hadoop and why is it a big deal ?
Hadoop is a software framework that allows users to change the application code to customize it to their big data analytic needs. Hadoop is an Apache open source being developed by a world wide community of developers. It is based around earlier work done by Google on their MapReduce application. MapReduce allows distributed computing of large data sets on a cluster of computers. Hadoop is a big deal because it is a open source project that allows custom code that allows business to analyze complex data sets that otherwise would have been hard to make sense of using standard data tables. Hadoop is used by a lot of different big companies but most business are not ready to use it just yet because of the high level analytic expertise and training it requires.

2. Who are Cloudera?
It is a company that specializes in Apache Hadoop software and support services around it on an enterprise level they also contribute to Apache projects related to Hadoop. Cloudera offers two products; the first which is Cloudera Enterprise and the other being  Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop.


3.What is PIG?
It is a high level data flow language used in conjunction with Hadoop. The language is called Pig Latin and it is a form of Java that allows for fast ad-hoc analysis of data sets. Users can create their own functions for special purpose data processing.


4.What is HIVE ?
HIVE functions as a data warehouse that allows for query based analysis of larger data sets. It uses a SQL like languange for its queries.It functions along side Hadoop files systems and just like Hadoop it is open-source and apache developed.


5. What is Cassandra?
Cassandra is an Apache open source database management system. It can handle large volumes of data that is spread out around many different servers. It started out as a way for Facebook to power their inbox search function. It uses NoSQL because traditional SQL based databases can be slow when dealing with big data sets.


6. What is Mahout ?
Mahout it is a suite of machine learning libraries that is designed to be  scalable and robust. it is another Apache open source project that is degined to work with Hadoop. Hadoop is associated with big data and Mahout is the word for a person driving an elephant. The elephant is Hadoop and Mahout wants to be the driving force behind it, but not lead the development of Hadoop.

Many Eyes

This Pie chart shows the racial make up of the US population during the 2000 census. The Chart shows that White was and still is the largest section of the population. White makes up 84.4% of the population , while all the other ethnicities and races combine to almost 16% of the population. There has been a big shift in the make up of the population since the 2000 census. This visualization shows China's population and its births per year. Its population has been increasing since at a steady pace from 1995 to 2009. During that timespan China has added 100,000,000 million people to its population while also enacting its One Child policy. Its growth is expected to slow down as the country will have to deal with the consequnces of the one child policy. The female population compared to the male population is very heavily skewed towards males as parents chose to only raise males in order to pass on family inheritances to them instead of females. This graph shows the population of the United States during its first ever census. This census also included the number of slaves owned by Southern states. Virginia was the largest state in terms of population, if you combine Georgia, Vermont, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Maryland then you would have the population of Virginia

Energy Production and Electric Power Consumption

This motion chart shows the energy production of the United States and China as well as the electric power consumption by the two nations since 1960. One can see as from before the United States is the leader in energy production by a wide margin during the 60's with China not even present. The chart will reaffirm the incredible leap that China generated by focusing its manpower into manufacturing. Looking at the chart in motion it is visible that China's electric power consumption in 1993 matched the United States electric power consumption in 1960. It took China 30 years to get to that level of consumption and energy production. From 1996 to 1999 the energy production of China seemed to be stalling and reaching its peak. Then in the new millennium China's energy production skyrocketed over the next decade to unbelievable levels in a short amount of time. While China has been growing in terms of production and consumption, the United States stalled on production but steadily increased its electric power consumption. Consumption by US consumers has thus been supported through importation. Production capacity has been at the about the same levels since 1984. Where all the extra electric power comes from is a mystery to me still