10 coolest big data products of 2015
The big data technology market remains one of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. In November, market research firm IDC said the market for big data-related infrastructure, software and services will grow at a compound annual growth rate ...
IoT And Big Data – The What, Why and What Next
Ok, you’ve heard the terms bandied about - Big Data and IoT. What’s the relation? We’ll tell you. Big Data has literally been the fuel on which Internet of Things (IoT) runs on. The tech sector is catching on fast, ...
Adapting NoSQL Syntax to SQL Databases
One of the greatest strengths of NoSQL databases is the query language used. While SQL databases are essentially required to use SQL queries, NoSQL databases give you the chance to build and manipulate queries as JSON, allowing for far more ...
Microsoft Excel for Web Analytics and Big Data
No one has time to spend ages mining for Excel answers from mountains of text to quickly find and fix Analytics issues. These issues can be something like:
Finding and removing duplicate URLs
Extracting domain names from the URLs
Converting upper case URLs ...
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, ...
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 ...
Big Data-As-A-Service Is Next Big Thing
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all together and massively upscaling the amount of data involved, we’ve arrived at Big Data as a Service (or BDaaS, and ...
The top 3 qualities of a great data scientist
With a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy, comes a growing demand for stellar data scientists. In fact, as of March 2015, there are over 60,000 job postings for data scientists on LinkedIn, and over 250,000 people listing data science ...
Making Hadoop Simple On-premises and in the Cloud
An increasing number of enterprises are either currently using or are planning to use cloud deployment models to expand their IT infrastructure for big data. We find that organizations are looking for an open and flexible platform that enables them ...