Python started out as a general purpose language when it was created in 1991 by Guido van Rossum. It was embraced early on by Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page (“Python where we can, C++ where we must” was reputedly their mantra). In 2006, van Rossum (right) went to work at Google, where heContinue reading “Python for Analytics”
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Internet of Things
Boston, August 3 2014: Bill Ruh, GE Software Center, says that the Internet of Things, 30 billion machines talking to one another, will dwarf the impact of the consumer internet. Speaking at the Joint Statistical Meetings today, Ruh predicted that the marriage of the IoT and analytics will yield $1 trillion in savings or productivityContinue reading “Internet of Things”