Things to Learn in R
By Joshua Burkhow
You up for learning something new? or maybe like me want to ādoā statistics? If you are looking to do data analysis then R is a great tool/language to learn.
What is R?
R is a system for statistical ...
Java and Analytics the next frontier
I've been pretty verbal about Java going down the wrong path and my view that what Java should do is start having a 'core' which is just the real basics of the VM and the language and then a few ...
Vital Hadoop tools for crunching Big Data
Today, the most popularly term in IT world is āHadoopā. Within a short span of time, Hadoop has grown massively and has proved to be useful for a large collection of diverse projects. The Hadoop community is fast evolving and ...
7 Tips to Succeed with Big Data in 2014
Information from Tableau Software
What a year 2013 was for big data. From the White House to your house, itās hard to find an organisation or consumer who has less data today than a year ago. Database options proliferate, and business ...
6 reasons your Big Data Hadoop project will fail in 2025
Ok so Hadoop is the bomb, Hadoop is the schizzle, Hadoop is here to solve world hunger and all problems. Ā Now I've talked before about some of the challenges around Hadoop for enterprisesĀ but here are six reasons that Information Week ...
Hadoop Cluster Interview Questions
Which are the three modes in which Hadoop can be run?
The three modes in which Hadoop can be run are:
1. standalone (local) mode
2. Pseudo-distributed mode
3. Fully distributed mode
What are the features of Stand alone (local) mode?
In stand-alone mode there are ...
Bloom Filters in HBase and Chrome
Bloom Filters allows to efficiently check if a particular element/record is there in the set/table or not. It has very minimal impact on the insert operations. The only caveat is that it might return a false positive, Bloom filter might ...
16 Top Big Data Analytics Platforms
Revolutionary. That pretty much describes the data analysis time in which we live. Businesses grapple with huge quantities and varieties of data on one hand, and ever-faster expectations for analysis on the other. The vendor community is responding by providing ...
Introduction to Apache Hive and Pig
Apache Hive is a framework that sits on top of Hadoop for doing ad-hoc queries on data in Hadoop. Hive supports HiveQL which is similar to SQL, but doesn't support the complete constructs of SQL.
Hive coverts the HiveQL query into ...
Top 10 Big Data Trends in 2014
In January 2014, IDG published their latest big data enterprise survey and predictions for 2014 finding that on average, enterprises will spend $8M on big data ārelated initiatives in 2014. The study also found that 70% of enterprise organizations have ...