3 Ways Big Data Can Change Student Lives
Approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day with a staggering 90 percent of the worldâs total data having been created in the last two years, according to IBM.
Simply put, data is just information. However, take large amounts ...
7 Reasons Big Data Analytics initiatives fail
Every business worth its multi-million-dollar tagline wants to understand Big Data Analytics and leverage it. What I have realised is that it takes not only skill but finesse as well to understand and appreciate Big Data in all its beauty ...
Big Data and Internet of Things â How the Future of Data Analysis is Evolving
The IoT and 'Big Data' are the fresh thresh out technology topics in the past few years, big data, meanwhile, can be described with the cooperation of '4 Vs', i.e., volume, velocity, variety and veracity. The IoT will immensly increase ...
Data Science Skills in Demand for 2016
Big data has been the watchword for a while in IT, so itâs no surprise that data science skills are in hot demand and the job has perhaps mischievously been labelled as the âsexiest job in the 21st centuryâ by ...
Big data gets a new open-source project: Apache Arrow
Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there's yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.
The Apache Software Foundation on Wednesday launched ...
Why NoSQL is the future of IoT
Experts predicted more wearable technology wrapped up under the Christmas tree in 2015, and they werenât wrong. We were gifted with everything from simple fitness trackers to smart watches, glasses, jewellery, headgear, belts and e-textiles. After the âtoys but no ...
The Top 5 Hadoop Distributions
A new report by Forrester Researchâs big data analysts says that adopting Hadoop is âmandatoryâ for any organization that wishes to do advanced analytics and get actionable insights on their data.
Forrester estimates that between 60% and 73% of data that ...
Big Data: Managing Wild Weather and Water
By Gaalen Engen and Marc Davis
A state of emergency was declared throughout Washington State in November in response to a series of savage storms that caused three deaths and hundreds of injuries. So catastrophic was the cumulative damage that the ...
Overview of Analytics Industry in the US
Harvard Business Review (HBR) claims Data Scientist and Business Analyst to be the hottest jobs in todayâs market. Big Data has set a veritable explosion in the global market, including a larger market of the US. The big data revolution ...
New tools in FlyElephant and announcement of webinars
FlyElephant team wishes a Happy New Year. We started this year with an expansion of tools' list, webinars and the formation of a community around the platform.
FlyElephant is a platform that provides scientists with computing infrastructure for calculation and automates ...