Microsoft Excel for Web Analytics and Big Data
No one has time to spend ages mining for Excel answers from mountains of text to quickly find and fix Analytics issues. These issues can be something like:
Finding and removing duplicate URLs
Extracting domain names from the URLs
Converting upper case URLs ...
Kafka 0.9 and MapR Streams put streaming data in the spotlight
As the Internet of Things (IoT) heats up as a topic, and as big data continues along on its path to maturity, streaming data technology, which fits perfectly in the intersection of the two, is having its shining moment.
How appropriate, ...
The Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Pig, HBase and growing
Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in the zettabyte range there is a growing need for cheap, scalable, reliable and fast computing to process and make sense ...
5 most in-demand skills for Big Data jobs
As the Big Data market grows, so does the demand for skilled workers - are your skills in-demand?
The Big Data market is growing as businesses realise the important of making data driven decisions. The market is predicted to be worth ...
FlyElephant starts to support R, Python and public API
Starting from October 31, 2015 FlyElephant supports R, Python and public API for the participants of its beta testing program.
FlyElephant is the Platform-as-a-Service for scientists analyzing data and making simulations of different processes. Elastic multi-core systems, HPC and GPU clusters, software, ...
5 Questions Enterprises Should Ask When Selecting a NoSQL Database
By Barry Perkins
With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases.
NoSQL databases enable better application development productivity, greater ability to scale dynamically ...
Big Data Analytics – The game changer in the world of sports
Big Data Analytics has gripped the attention of the world with the fascinating insights that it can provide. It has made businesses able to uncover customer preferences, helped marketing managers understand the market trends and even make career portals provide ...
How to become a Data Scientist for Free
By Nir Goldstein, ReSkill
Statistical analysis and data mining were the top skills that got people hired in 2014 based on LinkedIn analysis of 330 million LinkedIn member profiles. We live in an increasingly data driven world, and businesses are aggressively ...
O’Reilly 2015 Data Science Salary Survey
OReilly survey reveals the tools that successful data scientists and engineers use and how they relate to their salary. Get your copy of the Salary Survey. For the third consecutive year, O'Reilly Media conducted an anonymous survey to expose the ...
Big Data Analytics and its Importance
When we talk about Big Data, we find some people saying that it’s just and no action while at the other side of the shore we find another set of people who claim that Big data delivers usable insights. My ...