Apache Mahout is moving on from MapReduce

Apache Mahout, a machine learning library for Hadoop since 2009, is joining the exodus away from MapReduce. The project’s community has decided to rework Mahout to support the increasingly popular Apache Spark in-memory data-processing framework, as well as the H2O engine for ...

Pivotal Brings In-Memory Analysis To Hadoop

Pivotal, the EMC spin-off company pursuing modern application development in the context of cloud computing and big-data analysis, on Monday released Pivotal HD 2.0, an update of its Hadoop distribution incorporating an in-memory database and a battery of new analysis ...

5 lessons we learned about data science in 2013

Most people know what marketing executives do every day. They try to catch people’s attention through email, ads, tweets, and press releases. As for data scientists, well, their work is not nearly as well understood. That’s been slowly changing this year ...
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