Tag: MapReduce

Big Data New Age: Hadoop vs Spark

Over the past few years, Data Science has matured. With this maturity,…

Shalini Reddy Shalini Reddy 5 Min Read

100 Petabytes of Data in Poop?

University of California computer scientist Dr. Larry Smarr is a man on…

paulbarsch paulbarsch 6 Min Read

The Fallacy of the Data Scientist Shortage

 There is no question that the USA (in fact, most of the…

nraden nraden 8 Min Read

What Is a Data Scientist (and What Isn’t)?

The perception among organizations over the past five years is that more…

nraden nraden 7 Min Read

Ring in the New Year with New Data Products

For web-based businesses, and of course, those with a web presence (which…

paulbarsch paulbarsch 4 Min Read

Map and Reduce in MapReduce: a SAS Illustration

In last post, I mentioned Hadoop, the open source implementation of Google’s…

JiangtangHu JiangtangHu 3 Min Read

How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R

MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

The concept of non-relational analytics

There is a lot of talk these days about relational vs. non-relational…

asterdata asterdata 3 Min Read

Terabytes of trees

I saw a very interesting talk at hosted by the SF Bay…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 4 Min Read

Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and other stuff I don’t have time to grok yet

Lots of good stuff have been coming to my attention lately.Amazon just…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 4 Min Read