When to use functional programming languages and techniques By Claudio Caballero in Software Engineer, May 21, 2013, 11:00 AM // Claudiotrope If a project requires lots of concurrency/parallelism, its own language, or lots of math, you should think functional programming. As IT professionals, we have to balance proficiently executing on current projects with proven technologies and learning to implement new ways […]
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Lessons From A Crash Course In Data Science
“Data Scientists— I spent a month trying to figure out what, exactly, these mysterious new Masters of the Universe knew that I didn’t.” – Ciara Byrne By: Ciara Byrne – Tech Journalist for Fastcolabs.com – Article Originally Posted on Fastcolabs.com (4-13) Who wouldn’t want to be a data scientist, the latest glamor job of the Nerd World? […]
Top Co’s Debate: How to navigate the data analytics path
NADIA CAMERON (CMO) 13 AUGUST, 2013 14:36 ADMA Global Forum panel including representatives from Qantas, Brambles, Energy Australia and Deloitte debate how to successfully adopt data analytics as a marketing and organisational competitive advantage. Data analytics is critical for organisations but your efforts will fail if you don’t first understand what customer gap or commercial pain […]
PODCAST: Is Data Science Your Next Career?
Opportunities abound, and universities are meeting them with new programs By Steven Cherry of IEEE Spectrum’s “Techwise Conversations.” LISTEN NOW:
Video: Intro to MapReduce
Published on Mar 1, 2013 via MapR Intro to MapReduce concepts. Explores the flow of a MapReduce program.