How Retail Analytics is Changing the Indian Retail Space
The changing digital landscape of the Indian retail space has meant that retailers are opting for smart tools to leverage growth. Data analytics has emerged as one of the most potent tools allowing retailers to fill the gap between optimizing ...
Top 10 Tips for Hadoop Administration for Starters
When "Big Data" is seen to emerge as a problem, Apache Hadoop is expected to evolve as a solution to the same. It is a framework that provides various tools or services in order to process and store the prospects ...
Machine Learning with Python-A Revolution in the field of Data Analytics
Introduction
A data analysis technique that introduces automation in the development of an analytical model is termed as Machine Learning. Algorithms are employed by machine learning which draws insight from the data, so it provides computers with the capability of attaining ...
What Are the Skills You Need to Enter Data Science Market?
More and more companies have become reliant on data science and analytics. When journalists pay as much heed to data scientists as they do political pundits during election years, it’s clear that the data science industry has become a high-visibility, ...
Big Data is Rewriting the Ways Advertising Technology Works
There is no doubt that everything now revolves around Big Data. It is rewriting the way advertising technology works. Yet, market mentors still feel, analytics can be really Greek & Latin for the novice (i.e., a company using it for ...
Big Data and Internet of Things – How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
The IoT and 'Big Data' are the fresh thresh out technology topics in the past few years, big data, meanwhile, can be described with the cooperation of '4 Vs', i.e., volume, velocity, variety and veracity. The IoT will immensly increase ...
Big data gets a new open-source project: Apache Arrow
Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there's yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.
The Apache Software Foundation on Wednesday launched ...
5 Reasons to Choose Parquet for Spark SQL
It is well-known that columnar storage saves both time and space when it comes to big data processing. Parquet, for example, is shown to boost Spark SQL performance by 10X on average compared to using text, thanks to low-level reader ...
The Top 5 Hadoop Distributions
A new report by Forrester Research’s big data analysts says that adopting Hadoop is “mandatory” for any organization that wishes to do advanced analytics and get actionable insights on their data.
Forrester estimates that between 60% and 73% of data that ...
Big Data: Managing Wild Weather and Water
By Gaalen Engen and Marc Davis
A state of emergency was declared throughout Washington State in November in response to a series of savage storms that caused three deaths and hundreds of injuries. So catastrophic was the cumulative damage that the ...