Monthly Archives: October 2011

Big Data and 150 Trillion Calculations Per Second at Vestas (#IODGC)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

IBM highlighted Danish energy company Vestas at their Information On Demand (IOD) 2011 conference in Las Vegas today. Vestas uses IBM big data analytics software to improve its wind turbine placement. The placements of wind turbines is a significant challenge … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 5

Posted on October 17, 2011 by

Genre can be a tricky piece of metadata to populate accurately. All MP3 files have a metadata tag known as Genre. The genre is the type or category of music for the song in question. Is it rock or country, … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 4

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

Dealing with artist name issues… Today’s entry in the Musical Metadata series will focus on the various issues involved in managing one specific piece of metadata: artist name. The artist name is the moniker of the performer of the song … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 3

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Be careful about automatically populating your metadata from online databases because the information is not consistent, nor is it always accurate… In the first two installments of this series ( 1 , 2 ) we discussed how metadata can impact … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata,Part 2

Posted on October 12, 2011 by

The music is the data, so what is the metadata? Getting the metadata correct can be one of the most important aspects of setting up your iPod (or any MP3 player) for maximum enjoyment. You see, the music is the … Continue reading →

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Musical Metadata, Part 1

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

Folks who know me know that I am an avid consumer of music. I own nearly 6,000 CDs and albums (yes, I still own vinyl records). And I have them all cataloged in a Filemaker database on my PC that … Continue reading →

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