The Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Pig, HBase and Growing
Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in…
Know Your Data: Navigating the Data Complexity Matrix
The following is an excerpt from our new white paper: Business Analytics and the Data Complexity Matrix (free to download). The following…
Intelligent Transportation Systems for Midsized Cities
... ... When intelligent transportation systems are discussed, the focus is usually on mega-cities (populations of 10 million or more). But…
Top 5 Graph Visualisation Tools
Data visualisation is the process of displaying data in visual formats such as charts, graphs or maps. This method is…
Big Data Analytics: Unlock Breakthrough Results – Step 2
This post is part of a larger series to provide a detailed set of steps you can take to unlock…
Data in Consumer Finance
We live in the times when big data is used to by nearly every service provider to identify its customer…
Changes We Can Expect as Big Data Analytics Takes Off
We find ourselves in the midst of a surge in big data use. The number of businesses, organizations, and institutions…
Powering Personalized Medicine with Hadoop and Apache Spark
The Obama administration plans to dedicate $215 million in the 2016 budget to the “Precision Medicine Initiative.” This project centers…
A Closer Look at RDDs
Apache Spark has gotten a lot of attention for its fast processing of large amounts of data. But how does…
3 Ingenious Use Cases for Business Intelligence Tools
One of the most exciting things about a formerly-niche technology becoming mainstream is the way it mutates and evolves by…