Tag: analytics

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Charles Zedlewski. I’m very pleased to announce the immediate General Availability of CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4 (part of the Cloudera Enterprise 4.0 subscription).  These releases are an exciting milestone for Cloudera customers, Cloudera users and the open source community as a whole. FunctionalityBoth CDH4 and Cloudera Manager 4 are chock full of new features. Many new features will appeal to enterprises looking to move  more important workloads onto the Apache Hadoop platform. CDH4 includes high availability for the filesystem, ability to support multiple namespaces, Apache HBase table and column level security, improved performance, HBase replication and greatly improved usability ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Tom Hastain. Last week I wrote about how Big Data is transforming the oil & gas industry. This week I want to touch on the healthcare industry. This is yet another front in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is transforming our lives in ways Dr. Quinn never could. Consider some of the ways the healthcare industry is now leveraging Big Data: Remote patient monitoring Telehealth Insights into patient behavior Managing chronic diseases Improving patient experience Reducing the per capita cost of healthcare Forward-thinking healthcare providers now capture their patient’s medical records with Hadoop. They’re ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Biswarup Ghosh. In the last set of exercises, we worked on the basic concepts of string manipulation with stringr. In this one we will go further into hacking strings universe and learn how to use stringi package.Note that stringi acts as a backend of stringr but have many more useful string manipulation functions compared to stringr and one should really know stringi for text manipulation . Answers to the exercises are available here.If you obtained a different (correct) answer than those listed on the solutions page, please feel free to post your answer as a comment on ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Kinesis Analytics is the easiest way to process streaming data in real time with standard SQL without having to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks. Kinesis Analytics enables you to query streaming data or build entire streaming applications using SQL, so that you can gain actionable insights and respond to your business and customer needs promptly. Kinesis Analytics is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland) regions. Customers can use AWS CloudFormation to create templates that easily create or update Kinesis Analytics applications. Typically, a template is used as a way ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. The enterprise-class capabilities of Teradata Database have been enhanced for Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This is great news for organizations using — or wanting to try — Teradata Database as their engine for advanced analytics to deliver optimal business outcomes for areas such as customer experience, risk mitigation, asset optimization, finance transformation, product innovation and operational excellence. Coupled with recent launches of Teradata Aster Analytics and Teradata Demand Chain Management, both on Azure, these are substantial improvements that yield an impressive solution set worthy of your attention. Try it for yourself. Teradata primer ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Pero works on research and development in new technologies for online advertising at Aol Advertising R&D in Palo Alto. Over the past 4 years he has been the Chief Architect of R&D distributed ecosystem comprising more than thousand nodes in multiple data centers. He also led large-scale contextual analysis, segmentation and machine learning efforts at AOL, Yahoo and Cadence Design Systems and published patents and research papers in these areas. A critical premise for success of online advertising networks is to successfully collect, organize, analyze and use large volumes of data ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. In today’s ultra-competitive business environment, you need all the tools you can get to have that edge over your rivals. And in this respect, BI takes on a very important role. Modern business and organizations strive on data. We’re talking of data that accumulates day in and day out, and that becomes what many call big data. On its own, data that keeps growing everyday has no tactical or strategic benefit to a business. But when that data is processed and analyzed to unravel trends, patterns and ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Julie Steele. Introducing the SVDS Data Dialogues webinar series  |  July 27th, 2017 I recently read an article by Jeff Haden, A Brutal Truth About Success That Few People are Willing to Admit, in which he wrote: “Many people feel that buying something new—new technology, new devices, new systems, new ‘stuff’—is the key to success. They’re convinced that what they have is not enough. What holds them back are the things they don’t have. But, that is rarely true. Most people can’t work to the limits of what they already have, much less approach the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: business-science.io - Articles. We have several announcements regarding Business Science R packages. First, as of this week the R package formerly known as timekit has changed to timetk for time series tool kit. There are a few “breaking” changes because of the name change, and this is discussed further below. Second, the sweep and tidyquant packages have several improvements, which are discussed in detail below. Finally, don’t miss a beat on future news, events and information by following us on social media. The timetk package (formerly timekit) is a relatively new package that is aimed at assisting ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: MilanoR. Hello R-users, On June 29th we had the great pleasure to host the RStudio in Milano at Impact Hub. It went absolutely well with great participation, thank you all! This post is just to give the materials to those of you who could not make it or just want to go through it again and again! We had two very exceptional guests: Nathan Stephens, director of solutions engineering at Rstudio, and Joseph Rickert, member of the R Consortium board of directors, accompanied by Pete Knast, enterprise advocate at RStudio. They came all the way from U.S ... Read More