Ben Lorica

Ben Lorica

Biography

Ben Lorica is the Senior Analyst in the Market Research Group at O'Reilly Media, Inc.. He has applied Business Intelligence, Data Mining and Statistical Analysis in a variety of settings including Direct Marketing, Consumer and Market Research, Targeted Advertising, and Financial Engineering. At O'Reilly, Ben works in the open source data warehouse and analytics area.

An ex-academic, he was an Assistant Professor at U.C. Davis and was the founding Department Chair for Statistics and Mathematics at C.S.U. Monterey Bay.

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Visualizing Database Information with Tableau
Publish Date: Aug. 24, 2006Although there are several tools available to help users efficiently and easily create pivot tables or cross-tabulations, being able to visualize the cross-tabulations in real time is much more useful. Ben Lorica and the O'Reilly Research team recently tried a visual analysis and reporting tool called Tableau. It worked well for them; might it work in your data warehouse?

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Apps Per Seller Across the US iTunes Categories, December 14 2009
Asia Continues to be Facebook's Strongest Growth Region, November 20 2009
Counting Unique Users in Real-time with Streaming Databases, November 11 2009
Games Top the Charts in the iPhone and Android App Markets, November 03 2009
Twitter Users Most Followed by the Web 2.0 Summit Crowd, October 28 2009
Pipelining and Real-time Analytics with MapReduce Online, October 20 2009
Mechanical Turk app on the iPhone Provides Work for Refugees, October 13 2009
The iPhone as a Gaming Platform: Share of Top Apps By Category, October 08 2009
The Price of The Top Grossing iTunes Apps, October 06 2009
There are Over a Million People Actively Using Facebook Right Now, September 24 2009
Mobile Banks in the Developing World Prove Simpler is Better, September 17 2009
Resetting Expectations: Some Augmented Reality Links, September 09 2009
The Most Popular iTunes Apps Aren't Always The Cheapest, August 27 2009
Compared to the US, Facebook is Younger in Asia and the Middle East, August 18 2009
Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics, August 13 2009
The iTunes App Store Rolls with the Travel Season, August 10 2009
Infographic of the Day: Who Came to the US in 2008, August 06 2009
The US Online Job Market Improved Slightly in July, August 05 2009
Infographic of the Day: The US as Manufacturing Leader, August 04 2009
Infographic of the Day: Market Share of Health Insurers, August 03 2009
iTunes App Store Incubation Period Increases In Most Categories, July 31 2009
HadoopDB: An Open Source Parallel Database, July 28 2009
News Providers are Embracing the iPhone, July 16 2009
The US Online Job Market Was (still) Down Big In June 2009, July 01 2009
Facebook Adds Million of Users in Asia, June 19 2009
Mechanical Turk Best Practices, June 11 2009
The Economic Crisis and the US Online Job Market, June 03 2009
Most Hadoop Jobs Are In California, June 01 2009
Being a Suggested User Leads to Thousands of Twitter Followers, May 17 2009
2 Years Later, the Facebook App Platform is Still Thriving, May 13 2009
Up Close with an Enigma, May 08 2009
Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams, May 04 2009
The iTunes App Store and One-hit Wonders, May 01 2009
How Big Data Impacts Analytics, April 28 2009
Active Facebook Users By Country, April 19 2009
Waiting for the Billionth Download, April 16 2009
Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data, March 23 2009
Celebrities Embrace Twitter (and vice-versa), March 17 2009
Facebook is Growing Fast in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, March 05 2009
The Fastest-Growing Category in the iTunes App Store: Books, March 03 2009
Parallel Computing on Late-Night TV, February 11 2009
The Incubation Period for iPhone Apps is Declining, January 09 2009
Facebook Growth Regions and Gender Split, December 04 2008
iTunes App Store: The First Five Months, December 02 2008
Shai Agassi on Electric Cars, November 12 2008
John Doerr on the iPhone as a Gaming Platform, November 06 2008
iTunes App Store Categories and the Top-Sellers, November 03 2008
The Top Paid Apps on the iTunes App Store, October 24 2008
Facebook Growth By Age Group: Share of College-Age Users is Declining, September 17 2008
The U.S. iTunes App Store, August 15 2008
Facebook Growth By Country and the Slowdown in App Usage, July 21 2008
Developer Interest in the iPhone, Android, and Symbian, July 15 2008
Please Update Your Browser, July 08 2008
Seesmic Starts Adding Features, July 03 2008
Partial Same Origin Bypass with a Hybrid File, July 01 2008
On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users, July 01 2008
On Friends, Followers, and the Top Twitter Users, July 01 2008
Evil GIFs: Partial Same Origin Bypass with Hybrid Files, July 01 2008
The Suspended Facebook App Top Friends, June 26 2008
The Suspended Facebook App Top Friends, June 26 2008
BarCamp Nairobi Technology Survey, June 23 2008
Malware Centers and Offshoring, June 20 2008
When Micro-blogging Grows Up, June 12 2008
Twitter Availability & Response Times: A Mixed Bag, June 05 2008
Africa's Energy Deficit: Energy Hacks Can Make A Difference, June 04 2008
Where Does Facebook Grow From Here, May 27 2008
Myspace/Facebook App Platforms & Total Installs, May 19 2008
Where 2.0: EveryScape Crowdsources Streetview, May 14 2008
Where 2.0: Eye-Fi and Dash Navigation Apps, May 14 2008
Where 2.0: Satellites and The Public Interest, May 14 2008
Where 2.0 Keynotes: EveryBlock, Nokia, FortiusOne, May 13 2008
Macs in the Enterprise, May 07 2008
Facebook App Categories, May 02 2008
Virtual Worlds & the Cognitive Surplus, April 25 2008
RSA 2008, April 23 2008

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