Sunday, August 21, 2011

Octave instead of Matlab

Just learnt about GNU licensed Octave which could be a replacement for Matlab, atleast for students. Recently, my interest diverted back to machine learning, image processing re-inspired by two geeks working on an android app involving machine learning. So, started digging my neural network projects of my college days.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Talend ETL - Open studio version

A lovely opportunity landed in my way to try Talend Open studio. It was a breeze to adopt Talend Open studio. In specific, I used 4.0.3 version. The highlight is, it is built on top of eclipse platform, enabling any developer with fundamental knowledge of Java language to be easily extra productive. I cannot comment by comparing this with commercial tools in the market as I haven't used other tools before. One aspect I am sure is... the arrival of open source tools in the BI space will soon change the BI solution offerings are made. I am convinced Talend as a basic ETL tool and not sure if this can be used for "Heavy lifting".

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Technology radar - Jan 2011 is available

http://tinyurl.com/2em9mnc contains the technology radar published in Jan 2011. Interesting !