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Evidently Tiffany McCarty and Sydney Leroux took a ‘Ninja Stealth 101′ class. On the field both strikers had surreptitious pursuits into the box with the goalkeeper unaware until the moment before their cover was blown, beginning their NWSL careers with a goal apiece in a 1-1 draw between the Boston Breakers and the Washington Spirit. The first half was dominated by the Spirit as they put pressure on the Breakers within the first four minutes. Washington team captain Lori Lindsey played a...Read Full Story

(Photos by psd) O’Reilly Radar o reilly blog – click on the image below for more information. O’Reilly Radar – At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology, and we have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. We do this by drawing from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and...Read Full Story

Mike Loukides recently recapped a conversation we'd had about leading indicators for data science efforts in an organization. We also pondered where the role of data scientist is headed… View original article:   Steering the ship that is data science – O'Reilly RadarRead Full Story

An ESB for the Web? I spend a great deal of my time encouraging "enterprise people" to think more like "web people." Focus on adoption, use platforms to enable emergent capability, build the "generative enterprise," and that sort of thing. So, imagine my surprise when I saw the web acting a bit like the enterprise with the launch of Gnip. As the web moves toward a network of widespread transactional API's, each with it's own vocabulary, it is starting to look a lot like a legacy enterprise...Read Full Story

Special edition of the Radar Show from the 2012 Strata Conference in California 00:15 – Hadoop creator Doug Cutting discussing the similarities between Linux and the big data world. 7:04 – Max Gadney from After the Flood explains the benefits of video data graphics. 13:46 — Kaggle’s Jeremy Howard looks at the difference between big data and analytics. Video Rating: 5 / 5Read Full Story