5 most in-demand skills for Big Data jobs

As the Big Data market grows, so does the demand for skilled workers - are your skills in-demand? The Big Data market is growing as businesses realise the important of making data driven decisions. The market is predicted to be worth ...

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 ...

Splunk’s Hunk 6.1enables faster analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores

Splunk Inc. announced  version 6.1 of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores. Hunk 6.1 makes it even faster and easier to turn raw, unstructured data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores into business insights. Accelerated reports in ...

How to Run a Simple Apache Spark App in CDH 5

Getting started with Spark (now shipping inside CDH 5) is easy using this simple example. Apache Spark is a general-purpose, cluster computing framework that, like MapReduce in Apache Hadoop, offers powerful abstractions for processing large datasets. For various reasons pertaining to ...

Apache Spark is now part of MapR’s Hadoop distribution

Hadoop vendor MapR is getting in early on the Apache Spark action, too, announcing on Thursday that it’s adding the Spark stack to its Hadoop distribution as part of a partnership with Spark startup Databricks (Ion Stoica, the co-founder and CEO of ...