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Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Hilary Mason. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018. Watch the full version of this keynote on O'Reilly's online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Binoculars (source: Pixabay). Hilary Mason is the General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera. Previously, she founded Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research and advisory company, which was acquired by Cloudera in 2017. Hilary is the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, and is on the board of the Anita Borg Institute ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mac Slocum. New York City skyline - Strata Data Conference 2018 People from across the data world are coming together in New York for the Strata Data Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The future of data warehousing Executives from Cloudera and PNC Bank look at the challenges posed by data-hungry organizations. Preserving privacy and security in machine learning Ben Lorica offers an overview of recent tools for building privacy-preserving and secure machine learning products and services. The answer to life, the universe, and everything: But can you get that ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Anupam Singh, Brian Coyne. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018. Watch the full version of this keynote on O'Reilly's online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Complexity (source: Pixabay). Anupam is general manager, Analytics, at Cloudera. Anupam was the co-founder and CEO of Xplain.io, which Cloudera acquired in 2015. Xplain technology accelerates self-service BI with a massively scalable SQL workload analyzer. Prior to Xplain, Anupam was the co-founder and CTO at Joviandata, a pioneer in combining the power of ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. During the initial days of Hadoop only MapReduce was the supported software and later Hadoop was extended with YARN (kind of an Operating System for Big Data) to support Apache Spark and others. YARN also increased the resource utilization of the cluster. YARN was developed by HortonWorks and later on contributed to the Apache Software Foundation. Other Big Data Vendors like Cloudera, MapR slowly started adopting it and making improvements to it. YARN was an important turn in Big Data.Along the same lines there is another major change happening in the Big Data ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Announcements Apply design methods, computer science, statistical analysis, and ethics to turn data into insight at top-ranked Parsons School of Design in New York City. The one-year Master’s in Data Visualization equips students with the knowledge and tools to distill and display data that shapes decisions, policy, and change across professional sectors. Learn more. Predictive Analytics World for Government is a practically-focused, ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Lance Walter, CMO, Neo4j | September 7, 2018Reading time: 2 minutes We’re pleased to announce the addition of two phenomenal keynote speakers to the already-awesome lineup of presenters at GraphConnect 2018 in New York City. (Psst: Register now if you haven’t already, as space is limited!).Morning Keynote Speaker: Hilary Mason, Cloudera In addition to Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem, the morning keynote session at GraphConnect will feature Hilary Mason, GM of Machine Learning at Cloudera and Founder & CEO of Fast Forward Labs (acquired by Cloudera).Hilary Mason is a ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Praveen Sripati. As mentioned in the previous blog, setting up K8S is a complex task and those new to Linux, it might be a bit of challenge. And so we have Minikube to the rescue. The good thing about Minikube is that it requires very few steps and runs on multiple Operating Systems. For those curious there are tons of ways of installing K8S as mentioned here.Minikube sets up a Virtual Machine (VM). The VM is very similar to those from Cloudera, HortonWorks and MapR which are used for Big Data. These VMs have the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Muhammad Rizwan. Do you want to become a ‘Data Scientist’? If yes, then the first step is to understand the basic terms and their usage. A – Brief History Data Science is not a new field as the statisticians were doing the job even before the computer invention. Though, the evolution of modern computing technologies empowered statisticians to solve a wide variety of practical problems with heavy number crunching and massive data storage. The terms ‘knowledge discovery’ and ‘data mining’ came widely in use in the late 1980’s after the invention of the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. Terms (common examples) Definition for… … a data scientist … a data science manager … a business director Data Science An interdisciplinary field spanning mathematics, statistics and computer science aimed at delivering insights from data using a variety of technologies and methodologies. An interdisciplinary business function making use of predictive and prescriptive analytics to make better business decisions. The proactive use of data and advanced analytics to drive better decision making. Descriptive Analytics Examination of historical data to understand the changes occurring to a business. Used to answer the question “what happened?” Diagnostic Analytics Examination ... Read More

Feed: Featured Posts - Hadoop360. Author: Sharma Niti. The prior achievement of the internet has largely been reliant on technology and how it has evolved over the years- getting faster and more secure as enterprises continue to grow with analytics and innovation. Big Data is one of these major breakthroughs, serving huge functions at modern organizations. Concepts like data driven machine learning and the ability to store huge amounts of information to gain context from has been hugely beneficial towards the strategic aspects of running international businesses. Organizations have been making huge changes to the structure of their own infrastructure ... Read More