by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only converged data platform, today announced the immediate availability of the MapR Converged Data Platform with new security, data governance and performance enhancements. The MapR Platform is uniquely architected to converge Hadoop with Spark, web-scale storage, NoSQL, […]
Big Data Meets the Music Industry
by Angela Guess Bernard Marr recently wrote in The Huffington Post, “Technology and music are bedfellows again – though the fat cat record company execs smoking fat cigars have been replaced by coffee-sipping tech whiz kids. And Big Data and analytics have played a big part in this reinvigorated romance. From recommendation engines designed to […]
Why Google Flu Trends Missed the Mark So Badly
by Angela Guess Martin Willcox of Teradata recently wrote in Forbes, “Unless you have just returned to Earth after a short break on Mars, you will have noted that some of the shine has come off the big data bandwagon lately. Two academic papers that may have escaped your attention can help us to understand […]
Big Data and the 2016 Presidential Race
by Angela Guess Dan Patterson writes in TechRepublic, “Big data is one of the most powerful forces in the 2016 presidential race. In search of likely voters, campaigns focus on specific slices of information, frequently targeting everything from regional demographic stats to personal voting history. Similar to how advertising and marketing agencies use data to […]
Video: Fighting Disease with Big Medical Data
by Angela Guess The Atlantic recently wrote, “When Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel discovered that Sonia had inherited the gene for a fatal neurodegenerative disease, they quit their jobs to dedicate themselves to finding a treatment. President Obama believes that the American people may be able to help. It cost $400 million to sequence a […]
A Deep Look at the Role of Data Scientists
by Angela Guess Suzanne Rose recently wrote in DZone, “The distinction between statisticians and data scientists is that statisticians are given data and run regressions, while data scientists find the data, organize and analyze it, and then communicate the relevance in an understandable, actionable way to their organization. In order to have actionable data, data […]
Are Spark and Hadoop Allies, or Are They Enemies?
Click here to learn more about Ariel Amster. Any discussion about big data and the merits of analytics will in all likelihood eventually involve the topics of Hadoop and Spark. This discussion more than often becomes a debate over which is better. After all, both share similarities in that they are both big data frameworks. Many […]
Survey Finds 49% of Large Companies Implementing Big Data Solutions
by Angela Guess Teena Maddox recently wrote in ZDnet, “Tech Pro Research conducted a survey in 2015 to find out how companies are using big data and the IoT. The topic was revisited in January 2016, in a new survey, to find out what has changed in this fast-evolving landscape. In this year’s follow-up survey, […]
Building a Data Science Team from Within Your Organization
by Angela Guess Martin Hooper recently wrote in Enterprise Innovation, “As companies push to find the limit of innovation and move to set themselves apart from the crowd, more and more are also recognizing the importance of building a robust data analytics team to support their initiatives. Business leaders are aware that missing digital skills […]
Why Big Data and the IoT Go Hand in Hand
by Angela Guess Mike Kavis recently wrote in Forbes, “I have seen companies spend large sums of money and invest huge amounts of human capital building and operating big data solutions with very little ROI to show for it. Over the last year or two, IoT has become a frequent board room topic. Business executives […]