San Francisco startup takes on collaborative Data Science from The R Backpages 2 by Joseph Rickert.
From the post:
Domino, a San Francisco based startup, is inviting users to sign up to beta test its vision of online, Data Science collaboration. The site is really pretty slick, and the vision of cloud computing infrastructure integrated with an easy to use collaboration interface and automatic code revisioning is compelling. Moreover, it is delightfully easy to get started with Domino. After filling out the new account form, a well thought out series of screens walks the new user through downloading the client software, running a script (R, MatLab or Python) and viewing the results online. The domino software creates a quick-start directory on your PC where it looks for scripts to run. After the installation is complete it is just a matter firing up a command window to run scripts in the cloud with:
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Great review by Joseph on Domino an its use on a PC.
Persuaded me to do an install on my local box:
Installation on Ubuntu 12.04
- Get a Domino Account
- Download/Save the domino-install-unix.sh file to a convenient directory. (Just shy of 20MB.)
chmod -744 domino-install-unix.sh- ./domino-install-unix.sh
- If you aren’t root, just ignore the symlink question. A bug but it will continue happily with the install. Tech support promptly reported that will be fixed.
- BTW, installing from a shell window, requires a new shell window to take advantage of your path being modified to include the domino executable.
- Follow the QuickStart, Steps 3, 4, and 5.
- Step six of the QuickStart seems to be unnecessary. As the owner of the job, I was set to get email notification anyway.
- Steps seven and eight of the QuickStart require no elaboration.
BTW, tech support was quick and on point in response to my questions about the installation script.
I have only run the demo scripts at this point but Domino looks like an excellent resource for R users and a great model from bringing the cloud to your desktop.
Leveraging software a user already knows to seamlessly deliver greater capabilities, has to be a winning combination.
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