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wesm, do you cover using cloud-based computing resources for tackling computationally intensive data analysis problems? I use Python and PiCloud to turn what is an hours-long data analysis problem on my Mac into a minutes-long job on Amazon's hardware.

I don't know MATLAB, R, etc. well enough to say whether they can use the cloud as easily as Python, but it sure was easy with Python.

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The focus is primarily on data manipulation / preparation / cleaning / processing tools, data algorithms, visualization, and practical analysis case studies. The platform where you use them is a separate matter-- I will have some material on distributed computing tools, however.

Sounds good. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have a book like this coming out. I'm very interested in using it as a text for an instrumental analysis class I'm putting together. Thanks so much!

For R, MATLAB, or Python in a cloud Map/Reduce framework, try out Opani. http://opani.com/help/wiki

Didn't know about that one - thanks for the tip!

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