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Univariate Distribution Relationship Chart
Lawrence Leemis's interactive chart showing the relationships between 76 univariate probability distributions — which distributions are special cases of others, how they connect via limits and parameter settings. An essential reference chart for anyone working seriously with probability distributions.
Zipfian npm Package — Zipf Distribution Generator for Node.js
An npm package for generating Zipf-distributed random numbers in Node.js — useful for modeling rank-frequency phenomena like word counts, city sizes, and website traffic. A small utility from Will Scott born out of a paper deadline.
Big Data: Hadoop Distributions Compared
Comparison of the main commercial Hadoop distributions in 2013 — Cloudera CDH, Hortonworks HDP, and MapR — when the market was consolidating around a handful of vendors each taking different bets on what enterprises needed.