Tag: Spark

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Aileen Scott. “Information is the oil of 21st century and analytics is the combustion engine” ~ Gartner  Big data is the new oil and there’s no denying to this fact. In certain ways the analogy fits, it is easy to draw attention about how information (data) is used to power much of the transformative technology that we see today such as predictive analysis, automation and artificial intelligence etc.   As technology move towards the businesses domain, many organisations are drawing their focus towards data-driven decision making. Many organisations and firms are ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News TensorFlow Privacy: a Python library for training machine learning models with differential privacy, for use with sensitive data to generate models that don't learn details about specific people. Tensorflow Federated, an open-source library for Federated Learning, enabling many participating clients to train shared ML models ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Gradual steps (source: Pixabay) This post was originally published on Quartz. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars, and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars. Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Linda Wang. Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer in early February, which arms Azure with unmatched price performance and security as one of the best clouds for analytics. Azure Data Factory (ADF), is a fully-managed data integration service, that empowers you to copy data from over 80 data sources with a simple drag-and-drop experience and operationalize and manage the ETL/ELT flows with flexible control flow, rich monitoring, and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) capabilities. In this blog post, we’re excited to update you on the latest ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rimma Nehme. We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB. We believe Forrester’s findings validate the exceptional market momentum of Azure Cosmos DB and how happy our customers are with the product. NoSQL platforms are on the rise According to Forrester, “half of global data and analytics technology decision makers have either implemented or are implementing NoSQL platforms, taking advantage of the benefits of a flexible database that serves a broad range of use ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; For almost 20 years, Netezza technology has been at the forefront of advanced analytics, even as field of analytics has grown. New database architectures, vast increases in processing power, new tools and far more sources of data have combined to transform analytics. In this landscape of change, Netezza technology has evolved as well. After originating as a purely transactional database system, Netezza built the industry’s first true “data warehouse appliance,” rapidly increasing users’ ability to use different kinds of data while focusing on core strengths of simplicity, speed and low ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Arun Kumar L. Jupyter is one of the powerful tools for development. However, it doesn’t support Spark development implicitly. A lot of times Python developers are forced to use Scala for developing codes in Spark. This article aims to simplify that and enable the users to use the Jupyter itself for developing Spark codes with the help of PySpark. Kindly follow the below steps to get this implemented and enjoy the power of Spark from the comfort of Jupyter. This exercise approximately takes 30 minutes.Installing PrerequisitesPySpark requires Java version 7 or later and Python version ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Paul Johnson, Solution Architect; Paul Johnson, Solution ArchitectA data lake is not a direct replacement for a data warehouse; they are supplemental technologies that serve different use cases with some overlap. Most organizations that have a data lake will also have a data warehouse. The following section will compare the properties of a data lake in comparison to a traditional BI architecture (data warehouse & separate ETL server).1. Data in Data Lakes is stored in its native formatData can be loaded faster and accessed quicker since it does not need to go ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ram Shankar Siva Kumar. Last week we launched Azure Sentinel, a cloud native SIEM tool. Machine learning (ML) in Azure Sentinel is built-in right from the beginning. We have thoughtfully designed the system with ML innovations aimed to make security analysts, security data scientists, and engineers productive. The focus is to reduce alert fatigue and offer ML toolkits tailored to the security community. The three ML pillars in Azure Sentinel include Fusion, built-in ML, build your own ML. Fusion Alert fatigue is real. Security analysts face a huge burden of triage as they not only ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview AzCopy support in Azure Storage Explorer now available in public preview AzCopy in Azure Storage Explorer is now in public preview. AzCopy is a popular command-line utility that provides performant data transfer into and out of a storage account. AzCopy enhances the performance and reliability through a scalable design, where concurrency is scaled up according to the number of machine’s logical cores. Azure Storage Explorer provides the UI interface for various storage tasks, and now it supports using AzCopy as a transfer engine to provide the highest throughput for transferring ... Read More