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Monthly Archives: February 2015
What is Azure Machine Learning and why is it important: 4 Examples
Originally posted on KevinMcCauley.com:
Azure Machine learning — getting a system to teach itself from lots of data rather than simply following preset rules — actually powers the Microsoft software you use everyday. Examples Machine learning enables Clutter in…
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10 Big Data Certifications That Will Pay Dividends [ Source: Ingram Micro – Big Data Blog ]
Despite the buzz, big data is still in its infancy which means that there are few true big data experts. Of course, that doesn’t stop newcomers from claiming expertise. The only way you can demonstrate to your customers and prospects … Continue reading
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That IPO? Cloudera bides its time [ Source: Fortune.com ]
The high-profile Hadoop software company signed 250 new big-business accounts in 2014, topping $100 million in annual revenue. But CEO Tom Reilly is in no rush to go public. Tomorrow, big data management company Hortonworks will report its first financial … Continue reading
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For now, Spark looks like the future of big data
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Titles can be misleading. For example, the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference took place in San Jose, California, this week but Hadoop wasn’t the star of the show. Based on the news I saw coming…
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What is Data Munging?
Originally posted on What's the Big Data Idea:
One of the advantages of Big Data is the Data Lake. The Data Lake stores all the legacy databases in addition to new data storage and even streaming data. In order…
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Running Scala scripts in #Spark
Originally posted on It's All a Bet:
The Spark shell serves us all well, you can quickly prototype some simple lines of Scala (or Python with PySpark) and you quit the program with a little more insight than you…
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Remember when machine learning was hard? That’s about to change
Originally posted on Gigaom:
A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning. Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began popping up, promising to make it easier for companies outside of big banks and…
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Are Data Scientists Really a Breed Apart? [ Source: MIT Sloan Review ]
How do the very-in-demand data scientists differ from analysts? “The recent emergence of the digital enterprise has created a seemingly insatiable management appetite to amass and analyze data,” write Jeanne G. Harris and Vijay Mehrotra, in the Fall 2014 issue … Continue reading
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The Big Data War 
Hortonworks did $12.7M in Q4, on its path to a billion, CEO says
Originally posted on Gigaom:
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers represent 55 percent quarter-over-quarter and…