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by Paul Williams Introduction to Rails The Rails development framework continues to garner popularity for its ease-of-use in the rapid implementation of web-based applications that use a database. Paired with the Ruby object-oriented scripting language, Rails brings a certain elegance to software engineering, leading to an almost unheard of artifact in the industry –...
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By Anjul Bhambhri As we entered 2011, organizations grappled with how they could manage and benefit from the large amounts of data created daily, exceeding 2.5 quintillion bytes. This data came from internal and external sources such as sensors, social media, digital images, videos, transaction records, and cell phone GPS. To tackle this challenge,...
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Graph Databases: Connecting the Dots in Big Data, Darren Wood, InfiniteGraph View more videos from DATAVERSITY About the Presentation Big Data problems are quickly presenting themselves in almost every area of computing from Social Network Analysis to File Processing. Many technologies, such as those in the NoSQL space were developed in response to...
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by Charles Roe Part 1 of “Assessing Data Management Maturity”discussed the primary elements of the Data Management Maturity Assessment (DMMA) conducted by April Reeve, an advisory consultant at EMC Consulting, for a mortgage bank. The primary elements of this maturity assessment were: The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) developed by Carnegie Mellon University as the...
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by Angela Guess Larry Hardesty reports, “There are a host of mathematical tools for finding possible relationships among data, but most of them require some prior knowledge about what those relationships might be. The problem becomes much harder if you start with a blank slate, and harder still if the datasets are large. But...
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by Angela Guess New survey findings out of KPMG show that “Corporate executives have high expectations for the next generation of IT systems, seeking advanced analytical capabilities that can cut through the complexity of company and market data to identify the most important information needed to make better competitive decisions.” Stephen G. Hasty of...
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by Angela Guess Hovhannes Avoyan has provided an overview of the popular NoSQL solution, Cassandra. Avoyan writes, “Cassandra is a complex, highly scalable NoSQL database system that was initially developed by Facebook and is now under the purview of the Apache Foundation. Apache Casandra has risen as a welcome alternative to HBase, another highly...
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by Angela Guess Johnson & Johnson is looking for an IT Manager of Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing in Jacksonville, FL; Raritan, NJ; or Horsham, PA. According to the post, this position “is responsible for the overall technical delivery of all initiatives, project or operational, related to SAP BW as well as other assigned areas of...
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by Angela Guess Brightlight Consulting is looking for a Hadoop Solution Architect in Redmond, WA. This position “will be responsible for implementation of complete Hadoop solutions, including data acquisition, storage, transformation, and analysis and a solid understanding of infrastructure planning, scaling, and administration considerations that are unique to Hadoop processing for Business Intelligence. We...
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by Jay Zaidi Do enterprises treat data as a strategic asset? Are organizations making the right investments with respect to defining data quality requirements, proactively monitoring the quality of business critical data and managing its quality throughout the corporate information supply chain? Such questions must be asked by modern enterprises; they run on data,...
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