9 Truths Lead To Big Data’s Future
Now and then I find myself thinking about the big principles of big data; that is, not about Hadoop vs. relational databases or Mahout vs. Weka, but rather about fundamental wisdom that frames our vision of "the new currency" of ...
6 Trends That Go Beyond the Buzz of Big Data
It seems that there's as much substance as there is hype around Big Data. According to the study “Big Data Executive Survey 2013: The State of Big Data in the Large Corporate World,” by consultancy and analyst firm NewVantage Partners, ...
Big Data Opens New Doors For Financial Analysts
Big data is changing how lot of businesses operate, especially in the healthcare, industrial, and retail sectors, to name just a few. Finance is another area where big data is making its mark, as emerging technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL ...
PostgreSQL-The Other big open-source database has a new release
When you think about open-source database management systems (DBMS), you probably think about Oracle's MySQL and its great rival/fork MariaDB. That's thinking too small. There's another great, enterprise capable DBMS, PostgreSQL, and its latest, greatest release PostgreSQL 9.3, has just ...
Tableau and Syncsort Partner to Collapse Data Silos into Hadoop
Tableau and Syncsort announced this week that they have entered a strategic partnership to make siloed information more consumable for data-driven enterprises.
Syncsort sells ETL software that helps organizations import data from mainframes and other legacy platforms into Hadoop. Tableau in ...
Is Little Data The Next Big Data?
Is personal quantification the next evolution of the Big Data revolution? And is our addiction to analytics leading us astray?
Three weeks ago, at approximately 10:32pm, Nike made me hit my dog in the face. Now before the ASPCA starts calling, ...
Big Data Consolidation Upswing Will Place Premium on Predictive Analytics
While Big Data is hardly a new topic, the generation and storage of data resulting from the social, mobile, and local and machine-to-machine convergence trend continues unabated, justifying further investigation. That is why I'm joining my colleagues at Mooreland Partners ...
How Netflix could use Big Data to make twice as much money off you
How much would you pay for a Netflix subscription?
For some people, paying $8 a month for Netflix is a steal. Others aren’t so willing to open their wallets. Both types of consumers represent a kind of lost opportunity for Netflix ...
A Set of Hadoop-related open source icons
The best architecture diagrams are those that impart the intended knowledge with maximum efficiency and minimum ambiguity. But sometimes there’s a need to add a little pizazz, and maybe even draw a picture or two for those Powerpoint moments.
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How to build a single-node Hadoop/R system
The best way to learn any software is to use it, and if you're new to Hadoop and want to try using Hadoop with R the process of setting up your own Hadoop cluster can be daunting (to say the ...