Big Data Analytics Using Splunk: Deriving Operational Intelligence from Social Media, Machine Data, Existing Data Warehouses, and Other Real-Time Streaming Sources

Acknowledgments

We start by thanking the engineering team of Splunk for building a superb product and continuously improving it. In no particular order, we thank Stephen Sorkin, for all his guidance, feedback, and comments throughout the book; Siegfried Puchbauer, for his invaluable help with everything DB Connect; Alice Cotti, for her help massaging the Foursquare data; Sunny Choi, for her support and all the performance information; Dhivya Srinivasan, for getting the globe app to work correctly; David Carasso, for his support with the sentiment analysis app; and David Foster, for his help with the Twitter app. We also acknowledge Rob Das, for creating the original content of Chapter 7, “Using Log Files to Create Advanced Analytics”; Omcar Paradkar, ...