Top 10 big data stories of 2013
Big data. Anyone sick of it yet? Not the technology: the pulling together and cross-matching of disparate data on a massive scale is arguably producing more social, commercial and political change than any other innovation over the last couple of ...
Hadoop still too slow for real-time analysis applications?
With all the buzz that Hadoop is generating in IT circles these days, it's easy to start thinking that the open source distributed processing framework can handle just about anything in big data environments. But real-time analysis involving ad hoc ...
Which Hadoop Distribution Is Right For You?
Selecting a Hadoop distribution can seem pretty daunting. But it all comes down to which platform best suits your Big Data needs.
The thought of evaluating whether a particular technology is right for your company can conjure up feelings of stress, ...
Yahoo SAMOA, Open Source Platform for Mining Big Data Streams
Yahoo SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining big data streams and applying distributed machine learning algorithms. You can think of SAMOA as Mahout for streaming.
SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining ...
Essential big data tools for government
Big data. It’s massive. It comes in all types of formats. It’s dynamic, changing.
Government managers are looking to derive value from the mountains of data collected by their agencies to tackle a host of issues, including cybersecurity, fraud detection, crime ...
Managing Multiple Resources in Hadoop 2 with YARN
An overview of Cloudera’s contributions to YARN that help support management of multiple resources, from multi-resource scheduling to node-level enforcement
As Apache Hadoop become ubiquitous, it is becoming more common for users to run diverse sets of workloads on Hadoop, and ...
Predictive Analytics is the Next Growing Sector in Big Data Market
The theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP ...
Five ways to handle Big Data in R
Big data was one of the biggest topics on this year’s useR conference in Albacete and it is definitely one of today’s hottest buzzwords. But what defines “Big Data”? And on the practical side: How can big data be tackled ...
Hadoop Summit North America
The 6th Annual Hadoop Summit, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community, is coming to San Jose June 26-27. This two-day event will feature many of the Apache Hadoop thought leaders who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share ...
Big Data Bootcamp-Santa Clara Jan 24-26, 2014
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Global Big Data Conference is offering 3 day extensive bootcamp on Big Data. This is a fast paced, vendor agnostic, technical overview of the Big Data landscape. No prior knowledge of databases or programming is assumed. Big Data Bootcamp is ...