Cloud Migration Strategies for Hybrid Architectures
A hybrid cloud is an infrastructure that combines cloud infrastructure with an on-premise environment. The cloud infrastructure can be either public or private. Hybrid clouds can also include multiple different cloud infrastructures at once. In this article, you’ll learn about ...
What Is Data Preparation and Why Is It Important?
Data is regularly described as the “new oil,” which is kind of true: There’s good money to be made by those who use it in clever ways. Data is also fundamentally unlike oil in that, in the right hands, it ...
4 Data Sets You Need to be Aware of on Your Website
Running a website isn’t just about picking an aesthetically appealing design, bigging yourself up on your ‘About Me’ page, and posting interesting content. To truly succeed as a site owner, you also have to be prepared to pay attention to ...
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 ...
MapReduce for C: Run Native Code in Hadoop
Google announced the release of MapReduce for C (MR4C), an open source framework that allows you to run native code in Hadoop.
MR4C was originally developed at Skybox Imaging to facilitate large scale satellite image processing and geospatial data science. We ...
How to Create a Database in MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the “NoSQL” types of database solutions used to store and query big data. Old SQL developers might find Mongo a bit counterintuitive. With normal, relational databases, you create a database, then tables and then insert your ...
Intro to Machine Learning
Machine learning is sub set of artificial intelligence and it is study of systems that can learn from data. A machine learning system could be trained. Core of machine learning deals with representation and generalization.
Machine learning is a "Field of ...
Hadoop or Warehousing, or Both?
One of the thornier questions facing enterprise executives in these days of broad infrastructural change is how to deal with Big Data. On the surface, it may seem like a no-brainer: No matter how big the data load becomes, there ...
The Top 5 Big Data Use Cases Your CEO Will Love
One of the biggest questions surrounding ‘analytics’ and ‘big data’ is how do you actually use it to add value? Big data is still such a foggy term that it attracts many myths ranging from ‘big data is not useful ...
How Big Data Will Change the World
Big Data is THE biggest buzzword around at the moment, and I guess it makes sense to start my new ‘The Big Data Guru’ column with a post that goes back to basics and establishes what big data really is, ...