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O'Reilly Ben Lorica chats with Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley Professor and Databricks CEO, about the rise of Apache Spark and Apache Mesos.

Apache Spark's Journey From Academia To Industry

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with David Blei, co-author of the seminal paper on topic models, and who remains one of the leading researchers in the field. They talk about the origins of topic models, their applications, improvements to the underlying algorithms, and his new role in training data scientists at Columbia University.

Topic models: Past, present, and future

John Follett, editor of "Designing for Emerging Technologies" sits down with Dirk Knemeyer, founder of Involution Studios, who contributed to the book. Knemeyer discusses the changing role of design and designers in emerging technology.

Designers are engineers

O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with John Carnahan, executive vice president of data science at Ticketmaster, about Ticketmaster's evolving approach to data analysis, the avenues of user engagement they're investigating, and how his genetics background is informing his work in the big data space. Also, Three Questions with Michael Abbott, a general partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Bridging the gap in big data silos

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with Erich Nachbar, founder and CTO of Virtual Power Systems, about the ease with which Nachbar integrates new open source components into existing infrastructure, his contributions to Mesos, and his new “software-defined power distribution” startup.

Redefining Power Distribution Using Big Data

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Pilgrim Beart about the gap between technology and consumers, why there is no "average consumer," and why IoT standards isn't a rocket science problem.

The Next Big Thing Sits Between Tech's Push and Consumers' Pull

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Andy Budd, a partner and UX designer at Clearleft, about lessons learned at Clearleft, understanding who your user really is, and why design agencies have a bright future. 

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