Here is a link to a 27 page PDF Survey Report on Big Data Hadoop Practitioners produced by the SandHill Group and released a little over a month ago.
The report authored by Bradley Graham and M. R. Rangaswami contains lots of useful information for current and future Hadoop users. Read More
All Things Python: An awesome programming language for data analytics and much more.
In case you missed it the first time, I’m pulling this popular post out again, while we produce the next set of articles tonight.
On more than one occasion I’ve asked a data scientist, analyst, or programmer what their favorite coding language is and the response was Python. Its often not a normal response though, it’s like they’ve found their higher power. I mean they LOVE it man!
So since it’s an incredibly useful and flexible tool, I wanted to address it here on the Data Science Report. Read More
Video | Strata 2013: Yael Garten, “Big Data on Small Devices: Data Science”
Mobile is already changing everything about the way we access information, and we’ve only begun to experience the impact of the smart devices revolution. Mobile analytics is also very different from web product analytics. Watch Video
SPOTLIGHT | Attention Data Scientists & Data Analytsts! Here Is The Next Great Tool: MODE
I was able to speak with CEO, Derek Steer about Mode, a company that calls itself the “Github for Data Analysis” and will be an online repository for data science work. It will serve two main audiences: current and aspiring Data Scientists/Data Analysts. Read More…
Edu-Video | Huffington Post’s Adam Denenberg Talks About Their Erlang-based Real-time Commenting Framework
In this talk, you will learn about the architecture and setup that the Huffington Post built to power their realtime websocket based commenting framework. Leveraging RabbitMQ, SockJS, Cowboy and Erlang, they were able to build and design a highly scalable, customizable solution to power realtime comments.
You will learn about some of the pitfalls they hit, as well as some of the improvements they would like to make to take their platform to the next level. Watch Video
Video: Big SQL Analytics: Amazon Redshift with Tableau
In this webinar, he walks you through connecting Tableau to Redshift and pulling in a large data set to showcase the power of combining these two products. Read More…
Webinar: Oct. 9th| Gain Your Unfair Advantage with a Data Discovery Platform
Join Dan Vesset of IDC and Scott Gnau of Teradata in this 60-minute webcast as they discuss the impact of data discovery technology and processes as a critical component of an organizations overall big data and analytics solution strategy. Read More…
Data Visualization: Top 20 Amazing Tools
There are many different ways of telling a story, but everything starts with an idea. So to help you get started we’ve rounded up 20 of the most awesome data visualisation tools available on the web. Read More…
Revolution Analytics to Support In-Hadoop Big Data Predictive Analytics for Cloudera
Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software, services and support for the open source R project, today announced it will offer increased support for Hadoop as a platform for Big Data analytics with Cloudera CDH3 and CDH4 in its upcoming release of Revolution R Enterprise 7.0. Read More…
Video: Four for the Future: Upcoming Database Technologies That Are Not Hadoop
GigaOM Structure: Data 2013 Conferences Event 2013:
VIDEO: Four for the Future: Upcoming Database Technologies That Are Not Hadoop
Panelists include: Damian Black, CEO of SQLsteam, Emil Efrim, CEO of NEO Techonlogy /Neo4j, Ryan Garret, VP of Product, MemSQL, and Andrew Cronk, CEO of TempDB.
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