Big Data Analytics and its Importance
When we talk about Big Data, we find some people saying that it’s just and no action while at the other side of the shore we find another set of people who claim that Big data delivers usable insights. My ...
Round 1 of the Big Data Analytics World Championships 2015
Texata - Big Data World Championships
If you know professionals/university students that may like to participate in Round 1 of the Big Data Analytics World Championships 2015 - a free discount code for them is:
BDAN2015 (it's normally US$30.00). Round 1 starts on Saturday ...
The famed MongoDB document database and its benefits
Over the past few years, there have been talks about data management and administration of databases. It is indeed important for data to be managed properly for the best results. Businesses get to enjoy lots of benefits if they manage ...
Top 5 Trends in Big Data Analytics
While the majority people understand that companies are empowered by actionable information penetrations and help drive sales, devotion and exceptional customer experiences, thinking of making sense of enormous quantities of information and undertaking the job of unifying is daunting. But ...
Importance of Big Data Analytics for Business Growth
Until recent years companies have always evaded the question of using data analytics for business execution, leave alone big data. Most of the time it was due to cost of analysis that the organisations kept in mind while keeping away ...
BI Professionals Spend 50-90% of Their Time ‘Cleaning’ Raw Data for Analytics
Last year, the NYT shined a light on big data’s “janitor” problem – that data scientists and business intelligence pros spend too much time cleaning, not evaluating data. But how big of an issue is it, really?
Xplenty just wrapped a commissioned study of ...
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 ...
Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?
The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed system–be it a file-based system like ...
4 Considerations When Choosing a Hadoop Distribution
Choosing the right Hadoop distribution can be a tricky process. Many businesses looking to adopt Hadoop in their data infrastructure have a hard time figuring out what really differentiates one distribution from another. With so many options available, it’s easy ...
LinkedIn fills another SQL-on-Hadoop niche
Social networks generate colossal amounts of data that have come to defy the use of conventional data-processing tools, so it's no wonder their engineering teams have built their own toolsets -- such as Facebook and its machine-learning tools.
Enter LinkedIn, now ...