Judge: Number of ‘Unprovable’ Piracy Cases is Alarmingly High
By filing thousands of lawsuits over the past two years, Strike 3 Holdings swiftly became one of the most active copyright litigants in the U.S. These cases target people whose Internet connections were allegedly used to download and share copyright infringing content via BitTorrent. In the case of Strike 3, that’s adult content. As is common in these lawsuits, Strike 3 only knows the defendant by an IP-address. It then...
How to convert Excel files to HTML or JSON
Many businesses use Excel files to manage price lists, product inventories, advertising settings, financial data, and more. However, due to the ubiquity of the web, there is a growing need for organizations to display this type of data on websites or process it in third-party tools. Converting Excel data into web-based formats like JSON and HTML makes that possible. read...
How to analyze log data with Python and Apache Spark
In part one of this series, we began by using Python and Apache Spark to process and wrangle our example web logs into a format fit for analysis, a vital technique considering the massive amount of log data generated by most organizations today. read...
How to wrangle log data with Python and Apache Spark
One of the most popular and effective enterprise use-cases which leverage analytics today is log analytics. Nearly every organization today has multiple systems and infrastructure running day in and day out. To effectively keep their business running, these organizations need to know if their infrastructure is performing to its maximum potential. Finding out involves analyzing system and application logs and maybe even...
Let's be real: Diversity and inclusion is a business issue
Having spent most of my career in the technology industry, I’ve observed one fairly common approach to addressing issues: Identify a problem, isolate that problem’s causes, develop a solution, implement that solution, then gather data to determine whether the solution has in fact solved the problem. If it hasn’t, then rinse and repeat the process with updated data. If it has, then check that problem off the list and...
