Relevance of Big Data
In today’s world, where operations are entirely dependent on business intelligence and utilize the platform of information warfare for execution of the same, data has become one of the most vital entities for execution of business and it is very ...
How to Beat Your Competition Using Analytics in Insurance
AXA, LV= and Co-operative Insurance divulge how you can beat your competition using analytics in insurance
Competition in insurance is heating up, and analytics is widely recognised as a key tool for gaining an edge.
According to AXA, LV= and Co-operative Insurance; ...
Hadoop update 2.7.0 Released
The Apache Hadoop community is happy to announce the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0! We want to express our gratitude to every contributor, reviewer and committer.
The Hadoop community fixed 923 JIRAs in total as part of the 2.7.0 release. Of ...
The top 3 qualities of a great data scientist
With a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy, comes a growing demand for stellar data scientists. In fact, as of March 2015, there are over 60,000 job postings for data scientists on LinkedIn, and over 250,000 people listing data science ...
NoSQL Predictions for 2026
By 2026, key predictions for the NoSQL landscape point to deeper integration with AI and machine learning, strong market expansion, and a growing focus on hybrid data models that blend the flexibility of NoSQL with the reliability and analytical strengths ...
AWS joins Azure and Watson in bringing machine learning to big data
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS) has announced that it will soon offer machine learning as an option to customers.
The technology is the same creepy stuff that uses algorithms to recommend things that you might also like when you browse Mazon's retail ...
The State of the Data Warehouse
Today Snowflake Computing, the cloud-based data warehouse company, released a new report commissioned by Dimensional Research. The study is a national survey of more than 315 technology and analytics professionals with responsibility for corporate data initiatives.
One of the key findings ...
4 Hot Big Data Analytics Roles in IT Industry
TimesJobs data shows the IT industry is now moving away from the generic data scientist role to specific big data-related roles to build their analytics solution portfolios.
Big data is the IT industry's new buzzword. Industries have been talking about how ...
5 reasons to turn to Spark for big data analytics
Over the past couple of years, as Hadoop has become the dominant paradigm for big data processing, several facts have become clear. First, the Hadoop Distributed File System is the right storage platform for big data. Second, YARN is the ...
Can You Put a Price on Big Data?
The internet era has changed the economic and political landscape completely. The power of big data has revolutionised most business processes and now allows for decisions and analytical judgments to be made with more certainty than ever before.
In order for ...