3 Ways Big Data Can Change Student Lives
Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day with a staggering 90 percent of the world’s total data having been created in the last two years, according to IBM.
Simply put, data is just information. However, take large amounts ...
Big Data Analytics: Tools and Trends
One of the actual utilizations of future era parallel and appropriated frameworks is in big-data analytics. Analysis tasks regularly have hard due dates, and data quality is an essential concern in yet different applications. For most rising applications, data-driven models ...
7 Reasons Big Data Analytics initiatives fail
Every business worth its multi-million-dollar tagline wants to understand Big Data Analytics and leverage it. What I have realised is that it takes not only skill but finesse as well to understand and appreciate Big Data in all its beauty ...
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 ...
Data Science Skills in Demand for 2016
Big data has been the watchword for a while in IT, so it’s no surprise that data science skills are in hot demand and the job has perhaps mischievously been labelled as the ‘sexiest job in the 21st century’ by ...
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 ...
Why NoSQL is the future of IoT
Experts predicted more wearable technology wrapped up under the Christmas tree in 2015, and they weren’t wrong. We were gifted with everything from simple fitness trackers to smart watches, glasses, jewellery, headgear, belts and e-textiles. After the “toys but no ...
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 ...
4 predictions for NoSQL technologies
Allied Market Research predicts that the global NoSQL market will reach $4.2 billion by the end of 2020, with a growth rate of 35.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2014 to 2020.
The reason for this growth is that companies ...