Aspiring big data professionals are embracing online Hadoop training courses. The evidence: More than 10,000 people registered for MapR's free Hadoop on-demand training during the courseware's first month of availability.
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Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Gender equality report: an example of how big data can address big problems (includes a video)
For the 'No Ceilings' report, researchers collected 850,000 gender-related data points over a 20-year period from the UN, World Bank, and other organizations to measure progress.
Read and watch the video http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0309/Gender-equality-report-an-example-of-how-big-data-can-address-big-problems-video on +CSMONITOR
Read and watch the video http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0309/Gender-equality-report-an-example-of-how-big-data-can-address-big-problems-video on +CSMONITOR
Monday, 30 March 2015
Navigating the Hadoop ecosystem
A field guide to the Apache Hadoop projects, subprojects, and related technologies.
IT managers, developers, data analysts, and system architects are encountering the largest and most disruptive change in data analysis since the ascendency of the relational database in early 1980s — the challenge to process, organize, and take full advantage of big data.
Continue reading this article here on +O'Reilly
IT managers, developers, data analysts, and system architects are encountering the largest and most disruptive change in data analysis since the ascendency of the relational database in early 1980s — the challenge to process, organize, and take full advantage of big data.
Continue reading this article here on +O'Reilly
Smart cities will house 9.7 billion IoT devices by 2020: Gartner
Sunday, 29 March 2015
Amazon Accelerates Internet of Things (IoT) Strategy
Amazon's Internet of Things (IoT) strategy is coming into public focus. The latest move involves Amazon acquiring 2lemetry -- an IoT startup that links machine data with business applications, and potentially drives customers to buy more products and services.
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Continue reading here on +Information Management
SLIDESHOW: 10 Big Data Software Requirements
What are the core software components in a big data solution that delivers analytics? Although requirements certainly vary from project to project, here are ten software building blocks found in many big data rollouts.
See the slideshow here on +Information Management
See the slideshow here on +Information Management
Saturday, 28 March 2015
Analytics Won't Cure Stupidity
Every now and then you'll see a reference in the news or in general conversation regarding how some big data or analytics project failed.
If it's a big-money failure, particularly in the government realm, you can be sure that it will be high profile, and that it will bring the "critics of everything data" out of the shadows. We've seen these stories occasionally as big data has caught the public eye, and you can bet that with more organizations turning to analytics and big data we'll see even more projects gone bad. One side effect will be that the failures will taint the success stories.
Continue reading here on +All Analytics
If it's a big-money failure, particularly in the government realm, you can be sure that it will be high profile, and that it will bring the "critics of everything data" out of the shadows. We've seen these stories occasionally as big data has caught the public eye, and you can bet that with more organizations turning to analytics and big data we'll see even more projects gone bad. One side effect will be that the failures will taint the success stories.
Continue reading here on +All Analytics
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