The Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Pig, HBase and growing
Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in the zettabyte range there is a growing need for cheap, scalable, reliable and fast computing to process and make sense ...
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 ...
8 Big Data Trends for 2016
Bigger, faster, and different: that’s where Big Data is headed in the New Year. The trend of more people doing more things with their data quickly will continue, but the details continue to evolve. The spread of self-service data analytics, ...
FlyElephant starts to support R, Python and public API
Starting from October 31, 2015 FlyElephant supports R, Python and public API for the participants of its beta testing program.
FlyElephant is the Platform-as-a-Service for scientists analyzing data and making simulations of different processes. Elastic multi-core systems, HPC and GPU clusters, software, ...
5 Questions Enterprises Should Ask When Selecting a NoSQL Database
By Barry Perkins
With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases.
NoSQL databases enable better application development productivity, greater ability to scale dynamically ...
Big Data Analytics – The game changer in the world of sports
Big Data Analytics has gripped the attention of the world with the fascinating insights that it can provide. It has made businesses able to uncover customer preferences, helped marketing managers understand the market trends and even make career portals provide ...
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 ...
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:
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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 ...