Here’s How Big Data Can Help Protect Infrastructure
Critical infrastructure (CI) is a term used by large businesses (and other organizations, like government agencies) that refers to the most important ...
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Here’s Why Python Is The Top Programming Language For Big Data
Packt Publishing, publisher of software learning resources, has revealed the results of its 2018 Skill Up survey in a new report—including the top pro ...
Dark Data: The hidden billion dollar opportunity
Every organization collects, stores and retains portions of dark data. It’s the digital equivalent of emotional baggage which hangs around after every ...
5 Dark Data Sources that Lead to Better Marketing Analytics
Marketers have greater opportunities to reach target audiences today than ever before. There are endless ways to engage with prospects and customers t ...
Long Live KPIs: Innovation is the New Black
You've heard of them all: Myspace, Friendster, LinkedIn (post Microsoft) - all in one day and out the next. Social media has been evolving since the i ...
Apache Drill vs. Apache Spark: What’s The Right Tool for the Job?
If you’re looking to implement a big data project, you’re probably deciding whether to go with Apache Spark SQL or Apache Drill. This article can help ...
Preparing Yourself to Move to Apache Spark
IT is an industry that’s always moving. While some things will never go out of style, like the Unix development model and knowing how to design algori ...
What Are Accumulators? A Must-Know for Apache Spark
If you’ve been using Apache Spark, then you know how awesome the Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) is. If you’ve been using Apache Spark, then you ...
A Guide to Spark Streaming – Code Examples Included
Apache Spark is great for processing large amounts of data over large clusters, but wouldn’t it be great if you could process data in near real time? ...
Big Data Hadoop Use Cases in the Oil and Gas Industry
While U.S. oil production has begun expanding - so much so that the International Energy Agency predicts that by 2016 the US will surpass Saudi Arabia ...