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Agile Data Science
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Agile Data Science

by Russell Jurney
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate
175 pages
3h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Theory

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

—The Agile Manifesto

Agile Big Data

Agile Big Data is a development methodology that copes with the unpredictable realities of creating analytics applications from data at scale. It is a guide for operating the Hadoop data refinery to harness the power of big data.

Warehouse-scale computing has given us enormous storage and compute resources to solve new kinds of problems involving storing and processing unprecedented amounts of data. There is great interest in bringing new tools to bear on formerly intractable problems, to derive entirely new products from raw data, to refine raw data into profitable insight, and to productize and productionize insight in new kinds of analytics applications. These tools are processor cores and disk spindles, paired with visualization, statistics, and machine learning. This is data science.

At the same time, during the last 20 years, the World Wide Web has emerged as the dominant medium for information exchange. During this time, software engineering has been transformed by the “agile” revolution in how applications are conceived, ...

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