IPUMS aims to harmonize all the world's demographic data, but sometimes the data is just not there, leaving us with interesting user experience challenges as we help users discover when data is and isn't available. Read More ›
In our final installment of this series, we show how to harness all the compute cores available on your local system, turning it into a personal cluster for parallel computing. Read More ›
When you've hit the memory or storage limits of your local machine, it's time to look at more efficient data storage formats. Today, we explore Parquet. Read More ›
Doing analysis on big data doesn’t have to mean mastering enterprise Big Data tools or accessing hundred-node compute clusters in the cloud. In this series, we’ll find out what your humble laptop can do with the help of modern tools first. Read More ›
Our own HPC specialist Ankit Soni and the TerraPop team presented their published article at the IEEE Big Data 2015 conference in Santa Clara earlier this month. Read More ›
This edition of the Data Product Spotlight goes wayyy back to the very beginnings of the MPC and takes a look at our first and still most widely known data product, IPUMS USA. Read More ›
Colin Davis launches a new series which will provide quick summaries of our microdata products from a developer perspective. In this first post, he introduces the concept then takes a look at the American Time-Use Survey. Read More ›
