Justin Murray outlines the benefits of virtualizing Hadoop and Spark, covering the main architectural approaches at a technical level and demonstrating how the core Hadoop architecture maps into virtual machines and how those relate to physical servers. You'll gain a set of design approaches and best practices to make your application infrastructure fit well with the virtualization layer.

Seemingly harmless choices in visualization design and content selection can distort your data and lead to false conclusions. Aneesh Karve presents a quantitative framework for identifying and overcoming distortions by applying recent research in algebraic visualization.

Life doesnt happen in batches. Being able to work with data from continuous events as data streams is a better fit to the way life happens, but doing so presents some challenges. Ellen Friedman examines the advantages and issues involved in working with streaming data, takes a look at emerging technologies for streaming, and describes best practices for this style of work.

Zillow pioneered providing access to unprecedented information about the housing market. Long gone are the days when you needed an agent to get comparables and prior sale and listing data. And with more data, data science has enabled more use cases. Jasjeet Thind explains how Zillow uses Spark and machine learning to transform real estate.