Read-All-About-It: new weekly Oracle Data Warehousing newspaper

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Thanks to Brendan Tierney for bringing this excellent online automated news service to my attention….

For a long time I have been wondering how to pull together all the articles from my favourite Twitter feeds, Facebook pages and blogs. Well thanks to Brendan I have discovered a service called Paper.li. This weekend I spent some time setting up feeds from all my favourite sources related to data warehousing, big data. Exadata and other related Oracle technologies. The result is the "#Oracle DW-Big Data Weekly Roundup" which is designed to "keep you up to date on all the weekly sql analytics, data warehousing and big data news from # Oracle". The newspaper is refreshed every Sunday night so that it is ready for Monday morning to read over breakfast. It is the perfect way to start the working week….



Newspaper


if you want to subscribe to this weekly newspaper then go here: http://paper.li/OracleBigData/1384259272 and click on the red SUBSCRIBE link in the top right region of the screen. To give you some guidance on the where all this content is coming from, I am pulling articles from the following sources:
  • Oracle Twitter accounts
    • OracleBigData
    • Oracle Database
    • SQLMaria (Optimizer)
    • CharlieDataMine (Advanced Analytics)
    • NoSQL Database
    • SQL Developer
    • Hardware team
    • BI technology
    • Profit Online Magazine
    • Mark Hornick (R Enterprise)
    • Oracle University
  • Oracle Blogs
    • Data Warehousing
    • Data Mining
    • R
  • Oracle Facebook pages
    • Data Warehousing and Big Data page
Looking for feedback on how useful this is to people as we have so many ways to communicate with you it is good to know what works and what does not work.
If you want to subscribe to Brendan's data mining/analytics newsletter it is here: http://paper.li/brendantierney/1364568794
Now I am off to investigate creating the same thing on Flipboard for all you iPad/iPhone and Android users…..hope to have an update for you on this very soon so stay tuned!

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