Report from Yahoo: Big Thinker Mahadev Satyanarayanan’s Talk “Interactive Data Exploration with Diamond” Shines with Audience

The standing-room-only audience was well engaged as Satyanarayanan discussed the challenges of finding vaguely-specified data items in the growing world of complex, loosely-organized data. He cited several industry examples, including the example of medical image retrieval and analysis, given the large amount of data that is generated in the form of photographs, x-rays and scans…Satyanarayanan introduced Diamond, an open-source software platform for interactive data exploration that was jointly developed by Intel Research and Carnegie Mellon University. Diamond reduces data volume through the “early discard” of irrelevant data, resulting in better scaling.

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