Tag: Open Source

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Syed Mahmood. Data science is inherently an exploratory and creative process because there is usually neither a definitive answer to the problem at hand nor a well-defined approach to reaching one. Data scientists research problems, explore data, visualize patterns across data and use their experience and judgment to choose parameters and processes that may be relevant to the specific problem at hand. This makes sharing and collaboration a critical activity that enables teams of data scientists to build on each other’s knowledge and to produce the overall best results. As data science has evolved ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This is a guest post by Jeremy Winters and Ritu Mishra, Solution Architects at Full 360. In their own words, “Full 360 is a cloud first, cloud native integrator, and true believers in the cloud since inception in 2007, our focus has been on helping customers with their journey into the cloud. Our practice areas – Big Data and Warehousing, Application Modernization, and Cloud Ops/Strategy – represent deep, but focused expertise.”AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Colin Charles; Colin Charles  | August 10, 2017 |  Posted In: Events and Announcements, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL PREVIOUS POST Welcome to a new weekly column on the Percona blog. My name is Colin Charles, Percona Chief Evangelist, and I have been involved in MySQL, MariaDB Server and the open source community for over a decade. Now I am at Percona, and this is my weekly column. When you start a column, you have ask yourself what you’ll be writing about. Keeping the focus on the reader is what’s crucial. With this in mind, I plan to cover happenings, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. As customers increase their deployed applications in Azure, we are seeing a growing interest in DevOps tooling on Azure. We also see customers looking to deploy applications across multiple environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud deployments while using the same tooling and enabling the same DevOps experiences. In order to meet these growing needs, I am excited to announce that we are greatly increasing our investment in Terraform, partnering closely with HashiCorp, a well-known voice in the DevOps and cloud infrastructure management space. Our partnership with HashiCorp goes back to early 2016, where we ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; It's our pleasure to announce that MySQL Community team is supporting multiple shows around the world. Please find a list of conferences & events where you can find us in August & September below: NA&LAD UbuCon LA,Lima, Peru, Aug 18-19, 2017 MySQL Community team is supporting this small Ubuntu conference in LAD as Platinum sponsor.   Pacific Northwest PHP, Seattle, US, Sep 9-11, 2017 You can find our team at the MySQL Community booth in the expo area. Madison PHP, Madison, US, Sep 22-23, 2017 MySQL Community team is supporting this PHP conference ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki, Aspiring Graphista. By This blog post was originally published on Medium by Michael Hunger and is used with permission. Creating a Neo4j graph database (and more) based on Game of Thrones (and A Song of Ice and Fire) data.As season 7 is progressing, interest around Game of Thrones data is flaring up again. There are plenty of very thorough data sources like the A Wiki of Ice and Fire and the Game of Thrones Wikia. But those are unfortunately not available as plain data APIs.Thanks to Joakim Skoog that changed at least ... Read More

Feed: MapD Blog - Thoughts on GPU databases, data visualization and integrated analytics. Author: Todd Mostak. Today, with great pride, MapD is announcing a partnership with the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). We will be working with CGA to build new geospatial functionality into the MapD Core database, to improve hydrological modeling and visualization and allow for more accurate flood prediction and water-supply estimation. By combining CGA’s geospatial expertise with our team’s knowledge of high-performance analytics, we hope to build MapD into an even better platform for analyzing data at scale. More details of the collaboration can be found ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: George Vyshnya. Data Science and DevOps Convergence The primary mission of DevOps is to help the teams to resolve various Tech Ops infrastructure, tools and pipeline issues. At the other hand, as mentioned in the conceptual review by Forbes in November 2016, the industrial analytics is no more going to be driven by data scientists alone. It requires an investment in DevOps skills, practices and supporting technology to move analytics out of the lab and into the business. There are even voices calling Data Scientists to concentrate on agile methodology and ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Thanks to Karthik Vadla, Abhi Basu, and Monica Martinez-Canales of Intel Corp. for the following guest post about using CDH for cost-effective processing/indexing of DICOM (medical) images. Medical imaging has rapidly become the best non-invasive method to evaluate a patient and determine whether a medical condition exists. Imaging is used to assist in the diagnosis of a condition and, in most cases, is the first step of the journey through the modern medical system. Advances in imaging technology has enabled us to gather more detailed, higher-resolution 2D, 3D, 4D, and microscopic ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PGConf US, in partnership with Ohio Linux Fest, is pleased to announce that the call for papers for PGConf Local: Ohio is now open. The inaugural PGConf US Local: Ohio Conference (PGConf Ohio) will be held September 29th - 30th at the Hyatt Regency Columbus Ohio (350 North High StreetColumbus, Ohio, USA, 43215). This two day, single track conference is a perfect opportunity for users, developers, business analysts, and enthusiasts from Ohio to amplify Postgres and participate in the Postgres community. Friday, September 29, 2017: Trainings Mastering Postgres Administration: Bruce Momjian Postgres Performance and Maintenance: Joshua D. Drake  Saturday, September ... Read More