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I didn't understand exactly why the forms of research this allows for is so interesting or important even? He just claims that the high dimensional visualizatio

I didn't understand exactly why the forms of research this allows for is so interesting or important even? He just claims that the high dimensional visualizations are "obviously important and powerful" but doesn't explain why. I'm always skeptical of researchers who come out with pretty visualizations actually just looking for funding and/or recognition.

mousetree 12y ago
It's interesting as it shows that people are using Spark for something other than for the traditional web/enterprise analytics. Most of the summit was focused on BI related use cases so it was really nice to see something different for a change. It's important as the speed and interactivity of Spark has apparently helped the lab quite a lot in their research efforts. Some of the things shown in the video, particularly the real-time refocusing at the end of the video, would have been a lot more difficult, if not impossible, without something like Spark (or similar)
- closetnerd 12y ago
  I think Spark is from the Berkeley AMPLabs which is primarily focused of machine intelligence, data mining and artificial intelligence in general. Most, if not all, of there projects (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/ https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/) are geared at solving similar problems. I just don't see how this particular application is so important. At most, it seems to be demonstration of sparks capacities but again it was geared for high performance cluster computing anyways.
kevinalexbrown 12y ago
I can understand your skepticism but Jeremy has done some really phenomenal work beyond visualization. And in this case, he doesn't have to look for funding since he works at Janelia Farm. Depending on the position, they're not even allowed to apply for outside funding.
- closetnerd 12y ago
  Right, well I mean this obviously helps whatever institution (in this case Janelia Farm) get funding for research. I watched the lecture again and I'm very positive that this was more of a "show than tell" talk. As far as I can figure, there honestly wasn't anything that interesting in terms of neuroscience research. Anyways, I wasn't so much skeptical of Jeremy as much as the talk and its intentions. I did a little bit of research on his work but nothing immediately stood out. What's some of the research he's done that you would personally point me to and crucially why? I'll do my part and investigate it.

mousetree 12y ago

It's interesting as it shows that people are using Spark for something other than for the traditional web/enterprise analytics. Most of the summit was focused on BI related use cases so it was really nice to see something different for a change. It's important as the speed and interactivity of Spark has apparently helped the lab quite a lot in their research efforts. Some of the things shown in the video, particularly the real-time refocusing at the end of the video, would have been a lot more difficult, if not impossible, without something like Spark (or similar)

closetnerd 12y ago
I think Spark is from the Berkeley AMPLabs which is primarily focused of machine intelligence, data mining and artificial intelligence in general. Most, if not all, of there projects (https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/ https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/) are geared at solving similar problems. I just don't see how this particular application is so important. At most, it seems to be demonstration of sparks capacities but again it was geared for high performance cluster computing anyways.

kevinalexbrown 12y ago

I can understand your skepticism but Jeremy has done some really phenomenal work beyond visualization. And in this case, he doesn't have to look for funding since he works at Janelia Farm. Depending on the position, they're not even allowed to apply for outside funding.

closetnerd 12y ago
Right, well I mean this obviously helps whatever institution (in this case Janelia Farm) get funding for research. I watched the lecture again and I'm very positive that this was more of a "show than tell" talk. As far as I can figure, there honestly wasn't anything that interesting in terms of neuroscience research. Anyways, I wasn't so much skeptical of Jeremy as much as the talk and its intentions. I did a little bit of research on his work but nothing immediately stood out. What's some of the research he's done that you would personally point me to and crucially why? I'll do my part and investigate it.