The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage
There is no question that the USA (in fact, most of the world) would be well-served with more quantitatively capable…
Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4
Mahout is a machine learning library that will be included in CDH4
Ring in the New Year with New Data Products
For web-based businesses, and of course, those with a web presence (which is just about everyone) there’s a goldmine of…
The Next Generation BI Professional – Things Will Be Very Different
The next generation business intelligence professional is not one who has experienced complex deployments, lengthy project time frames and unpredictable…
Are Data Scientists the Next Masters of the Universe?
Back in the late 1970s, traders buying and selling mortgages were pushed aside for new masters of the universe—“quants” or…
First Look – Ideate
Ideate is an Application Framework from a company called Consilience International that was started about 2 years ago by a…
Incorporating MapReduce in the Analytics Environment
A few weeks ago, I attended the Hadoop World show in New York to hear first-hand how organizations are making…