Maximizing Data on the Front Lines of Revenue

Click to learn more about author David Keane. In today’s data-driven business environment, intuition alone isn’t enough to drive decision making. As investors, board members, and even employees monitor company movements, every decision made must be backed with data, use cases as proof points, and connection to overarching company goals. Data-based decision making must be […]
Read More →Cloud: The Future of the Data Warehouse

Click to learn more about author Neil Barton. In the past, implementing a Data Warehouse was like walking a tightrope between Data Quality and business agility. When they were first created, on-premises Data Warehouses were hugely expensive and inhibited agility. Building a Data Warehouse took years and cost millions, meaning only the wealthiest companies could […]
Read More →How to Choose the Right NoSQL Database for Your Application?

Click to learn more about author Akshay Pore. This is the second part of an on-going series on NoSQL Databases, the first part was NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know. In that first part, I explained different NoSQL Database types and provided a few use cases suitable for each type. But […]
Read More →Many Benefits of Big Data Analytics for Your Company

Click to learn more about author Harnil Oza. Big Data is everywhere. Everyone talks about this concept, but very few could tell you a good list of benefits of Big Data or how it can help your business. You could say that Big Data describes huge data volumes, both unstructured and structured, that is generated […]
Read More →Chicago Homicides 2018, a Second Look with R

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A year ago, I posted a blog on the disturbing 57% increase in Chicago homicides for 2016. There’s been no shortage of loaded commentary since, including strong if misinformed statements by the POTUS. A bit more balanced perspective was provided by fivethiryeight. There can be no denying […]
Read More →The Cutting Edge: Is Video the Uber-Sensor for Factory IoT?

Click to learn more about author Will Ochandarena. When most people think of Industrial IoT use cases, they think about the insights that can be derived by monitoring thousands of little sensors. For oil fields it may be temperature and pressure sensors, and for manufacturing lines it may be power draw or readings from a […]
Read More →Data Science in 90 Seconds: Supervised Machine Learning

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 2 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]
Read More →The Ongoing Debate Between Centralized and Distributed Data

Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. Though Bon Jovi is no longer the band they were when I was a teenager, they definitely hit the nail on the head with the lyric, “the more things change, the more they stay the same” from their 2010 Greatest Hits album. This paradigm rings true […]
Read More →Secrets to Utilizing a Data Fabric

Click to learn more about video blogger John Morrell. The Big Data & Brews video blog series continues with host John Morrell, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Datameer. The series touches on hot topics within the business of Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next Generation Technologies. […]
Read More →Why So Many Data Analytics Projects Fail (And How to Save Them)

Click to learn more about author Wolf Ruzicka. Data Analytics has captured the imagination of businesses, governments, and organizations of all kinds. The potential insights that analyzing large chunks of information can unveil are undeniably powerful. But in reality, most Analytics Projects fail to achieve results. A giant spreadsheet of numbers can look impressive, but […]
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