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Big Data: New Tricks for Econometrics [pdf]

• guylhem 13y ago
  By Hal Varian, who has interesting microeconomics books, works with Mathematica to provide visual examples of what he is teaching, etc. Reading that at the moment, seems very interesting.
  • valgaze 13y ago
    He's Chief Economist at Google, starting on line 49 he begins by outlining big data challenges unique to Google infrastrucutre
• bernatfp 13y ago
  The author mentions Pig as the open-source version of Go, which have nothing to do with each other. Aside from that, this paper is excellent.
  • genericuser 13y ago
    The only mention of Pig I see seems to suggest it could be used as an alternative to Go for the purposes of the paper, not that Pig is a version of Go. The list below has both the Google name and the name of related external tools... ...Go [Pig] Go is an open-source general-purpose computer language that makes it easier to do parallel data processing.