Tag: Project

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Ravi Mistry. 23 June, 2017 | Ravi Mistry The Data School; 2 years on. On the 23rd of June 2015, there was a spark in Central London. And two years later, this spark is now a burning flame, which has been a roaring success. I am, of course, talking about the Data School. An idea started by Tom Brown, Craig Bloodworth and (perhaps the most important piece of the jigsaw) Andy Kriebel ended up in eight complete strangers taking a leap of faith and joining an immersion programme like no other. It promised four months ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Tom White. It’s a new year, the time when we take a moment to look back at the previous one, and forward to what might be coming next. In the world of Hadoop a lot happened in 2008. Organization At the beginning of the year, Hadoop was a sub-project of Lucene. In January, Hadoop became a Top Level Project at Apache, in recognition of its success and diversity of community. This allowed sub-projects to be added, the first of which was HBase, previously a contrib project. ZooKeeper, a service for coordinating distributed systems, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. In the world of Big Data, information has evolved from being a merely passive construct into an active and dynamic abstraction. The language of this information is the computer code, but before diving into cluster programming, there are several things that you must first understand. Amdahl’s Law and the Limits of Parallel Computation Despite the power and promise of parallel computation, there are limits to what parallel computers can accomplish. In 1967, computer scientist Gene Amdahl presented a paper at that year’s AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Julie Steele. Failure has a bad rap  |  June 22nd, 2017 In today’s hero culture, failure can lead to demoralization, loss of status, or loss of job. Teams that fail too much lose resources and ultimately fall apart. Fear of failure may be especially acute among company leaders, those women and men who are paid handsomely to produce success stories. So, yes, failing hurts and has real consequences. No wonder so many of us fear failure and manage our projects with safety nets and guard rails that rein in risk. But failure has a bad ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Business process management’s role in utilizing knowledge is, in essence, about alignment, making sure you have the key pieces of knowledge from individual employees, departments and operations. This way, businesses can make better decisions with greater context, based on the full picture.In an earlier blog post – ‘Business Process Management Provides Invaluable Knowledge’ – we looked at not only the importance of using knowledge to move your business forward, but also some of the challenges you  face in gathering knowledge from different roles within your organization. In this article, we ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Getting started with business process modeling is better done sooner rather than later. Especially since business processes modeling is essential to a data strategy.In this series on business process modeling, we  already looked at what business process modeling is. This week, we look at determining when  tostart business process modeling. If you’re not caught up on the series, we cover the ‘Basics of Business Process Modeling’, here. Getting started with business process modeling: Why am I doing this? When deciding to undertake business process modeling to understand how your company ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. IBM is boosting its data governance and data science initiatives to help developers and analysts tap into the power of cognitive computing to gain greater understanding and control of their data, while improving their ability to comply with data regulations such as the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).As part of the enhancements, IBM announced new data governance solutions and tools, data science and machine learning advances, and the formation of the Open Data Governance Consortium for Apache Atlas, dedicated to advancing the open framework for data governance.GDPR is a ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Emmanuelle Rieuf. This article was written by James Le. It is no doubt that the sub-field of machine learning / artificial intelligence has increasingly gained more popularity in the past couple of years. As Big Data is the hottest trend in the tech industry at the moment, machine learning is incredibly powerful to make predictions or calculated suggestions based on large amounts of data. Some of the most common examples of machine learning are Netflix’s algorithms to make movie suggestions based on movies you have watched in the past or Amazon’s ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Tom White. As a developer coming to Apache Hadoop it is important to understand how testing is organized in the project. For the most part it is simple — it’s really just a lot of JUnit tests — but there are some aspects that are not so well known. Running Hadoop Unit Tests Let’s have a look at some of the tests in Hadoop Core, and see how to run them. First check out the Hadoop Core source, and from the top-level directory type the following command. (Warning: it will take a few ... Read More

Feed: AllegroGraph - THE Semantic Graph Database. Author: cnorvell. Franz Extends its Semantic Graph Database AllegroGraph 5.0 Unveils New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications OAKLAND, Calif. — February 9, 2015 — Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announcedAllegroGraph 5.0 with unique multi-dimensional indexing capabilities. Data Scientists can think of these new multi-dimensional indices as similar to OLAP data cubes or HyperCubes but with the powerful dynamic data linking of a Graph Database. AllegroGraph was the first Graph Database to offer advanced temporal and geospatial libraries. With this latest release AllegroGraph again leads the industry with multi-dimensional event based data processing for solutions ... Read More