Hadoop

VIDEO | “Demystifying Big Data and Apache Spark” | SF Bay Area Hadoop Meetup

May 4, 2016 By Ted OBrien

VIDEO | Mohammed Guller, Principal Architect at Glassbeam introductory talk for those who want to get into Big Data and learn about Spark, but don’t know where to start.

Spark is a fast easy-to-use general-purpose cluster computing framework for processing large datasets. It has become the most active open-source big data project. Read More

Data Science Report: Top Articles, Videos, & Jobs in Data Science & Big Data Analytics

November 25, 2014 By Ted OBrien

Happy Monday to All. Here are a set of compelling articles, videos, webinars on Data Science & Big Data Analytics. Also see the Top 5 jobs in Data Science that we are working vigorously to fill at our clients. Read More

Data Science Report | Top Articles & Video’s For The Week (Bonus)

October 29, 2014 By Ted OBrien

Here are few sets of interesting articles, videos, and our top jobs in Data Science & Analytics that stood out this week. Read More

Strata + Hadoop World NYC Conf Notes and More…

October 20, 2014 By Ted OBrien

I attended this year’s Strata + Hadoop World Conference in NYC at the Javit’s Center late last week. There were “boat loads” of speakers, tutorials, and vendors pitching their latest, greatest software, solutions, and hardware to attack the “big data” opportunity.

Here are some notes from the conference and other articles, jobs openings of note from last week. Read More

Edu-Video | Introduction to HBase and When To Use It!

September 15, 2014 By Ted OBrien

So what is HBase? Yes, it’s the Bigtable-like structured storage for Hadoop HDFS, but how exactly does it work? What is the architecture? When is a good time to use it and when is not? This post will help inform those questions. More…

Guide | Free Hadoop Buyer’s Guide

September 3, 2014 By Ted OBrien

This guide by Robert Schneider, who also wrote Hadoop for Dummies, created this guide give you everything you need to know about choosing the right Hadoop distribution For Production Read More

ICYMI | “Best of The Week!” (Aug. 23rd – Sept. 1st)

September 2, 2014 By Ted OBrien

In case you missed it. Here is short list of the most popular content on the DataScienceReport.com last week. Read More

Is Hadoop at a Crossroads?

August 26, 2014 By Ted OBrien

MIT’s Adjunct Professor Michael Stonebraker, discusses the future of Hadoop. Hadoop is technically the open source version of MapReduce, created by Google/Yahoo.

Google has long since dropped MapReduce in favor of better solutions, so will the market follow suit?Read More