Bloomington South, Silver Creek, Shenandoah, Barr-Reeve are No. 1 teams going into tournament

Two sessions on Sunday at Heritage Christian

MIC all-conference teams for basketball, wrestling and swimming

One of the fastest ways for a startup to grow has always been to ride on the shoulders of a successful platform: from Microsoft/OSS in software to AWS in cloud computing to iOS/Android in mobile to Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest in social to … Continue reading →

I am roaming the halls of Google I/O 2013 and wondering whether Google’s platform passes the ecosystem test. … no platform has become hugely successful without a corresponding ecosystem of vendors building significant businesses on top of the platform. Typically, … Continue reading →

At Swoop we use Redis extensively for caching, message processing and analytics. The Redis documentation can be pithy at times and recently I found myself wanting to look in more depth at the Redis wire protocol. Getting everything set up … Continue reading →

Math is beautiful and, sometimes, math becomes even more beautiful with the help of a bit of computer science. My favorite proof of all time combines the two in just such a way. Goal: prove that the cardinality of the … Continue reading →

At Swoop we have many terabytes of JSON-like data in MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, HDFS/Hadoop and even Amazon Redshift. While the internal representations are typically not JSON but BSON, MsgPack or native encodings, when it comes time to move large amounts … Continue reading →

My friend Jerry Neumann wrote a great post on angel investing strategies, dissecting truth and myth about different betting strategies and sharing his own approach. The question of luck came up and a commenter linked to my work on data-driven patterns of successful … Continue reading →

In the past decade several Nobel prizes in Economics have been awarded in the broader area of market (mechanism/auction/game) design. This is not surprising as the combination of Internet connectivity and ample computing resources are causing automated markets to pop … Continue reading →

The startup anti-patterns section of my blog summarizes the repeatable ways startups waste time & money and, often, fail. Learning from startup failure is valuable because there are many more examples of failures that successes. (Anti-)Patterns become more noticeable and … Continue reading →

There are many ways to extend Apache Spark and one of the easiest is with functions that manipulate one of more columns in a DataFrame. When considering different Spark function types, it is important to not ignore the full set … Continue reading →

St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Moon Taxi will headline Holler on the Hill, a new two-day Indianapolis music festival.

Plaque honoring Elvis Presley's final concert has been absent in recent years because of construction at Market Square Arena site in Indianapolis.

Treating a sold-out crowd to hit songs in bunches, Imagine Dragons deliver a memorable spectacle on Indianapolis date of the "Evolve" tour.

Outlaw Music Festival makes smashing Indiana debut led by national treasure Willie Nelson and rising iconoclast Sturgill Simpson.

Elvis Presley fans gather inside new luxury apartment tower 360 Market Square to rededicate 16-year-old plaque previously displaced by construction.

One Direction singer Harry Styles will bring his solo tour to Bankers Life Fieldhouse Wednesday, 383 days after the concert was announced.

Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, the Dave Matthews Band, Janelle Monae and Dierks Bentley are five music acts headed to Indianapolis in July.

July will bring Dave Matthews, Foo Fighters and Janelle Monae to Indianapolis, plus Heartland's first short-film festival.

One Direction singer Harry Styles showcases blues, rockabilly and country accents on Indianapolis stop of his "Live On Tour" trip.

Florida Georgia Line, Nelly, Cole Swindell and more will play the inaugural FGL Fest at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Paramore played the Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn at White River State Park Sunday, July 1. Here's a recap.

The Dave Matthews Band will return to Indiana after taking a break in 2017.

Life changed for Avon High School alum Jesse Kramer in June, when he made his TV network debut on "The Four: Battle for Stardom."

Jam-band roots, revamped lineup and a new album translate into a fresh performance by the Dave Matthews Band at the venue once known as Deer Creek.

Nearly 70 acts, including Valee and Black Moon, will perform at fourth annual Chreece hip-hop festival in Fountain Square.

Modern rock giants Weezer and Pixies deliver power-meets-melody masterpieces in Indiana.

Woody Guthrie Center will honor John Mellencamp's career of spotlighting "the everyday man and woman, the less fortunate and the forgotten."

Janelle Monae brought a thinking-human's dance party to Indianapolis to promote standout album 'Dirty Computer.'

A show billed as "The Adventures of Kesha and Macklemore" resembles a summer popcorn movie at Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center.

Check out performances at Indy CD & Vinyl, Luna Music and Square Cat Vinyl.

Rock band Fleetwood Mac will perform this fall at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Check out 2018 albums by Indiana's Richard Edwards, S.M. Wolf, Rob Dixon, Brother O' Brother and Peteyboy.