Tag: Spark

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon DynamoDB helps you capture high-velocity data such as clickstream data to form customized user profiles and online order transaction data to develop customer order fulfillment applications, improve customer satisfaction, and get insights into sales revenue to create a promotional offer for the customer. It’s essential to store these data points in a centralized data lake, which can be transformed, analyzed, and combined with diverse organizational datasets to derive meaningful insights and make predictions. A popular use case in order management is receiving, tracking, and fulfilling customer orders. The order management process begins when an ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions. Amazon EMR on EKS allows customers to automate the provisioning and management of open-source big data frameworks on EKS. With EMR on EKS, customers can now run Spark applications alongside other types of applications on the same EKS cluster to improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management. Customers can deploy EMR applications on the same EKS cluster as other types of applications, which ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon EMR to run big data analytics applications on Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto at scale. Amazon EMR automates the provisioning and scaling of these frameworks, and delivers high performance at low cost with optimized runtimes and support for a wide range of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Amazon EMR makes it easy for data engineers and data scientists to develop, visualize, and debug data science applications with Amazon EMR Studio ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joe Mueller. By making requests through API calls you can expand the functionality of the bots you make with SAS Conversation Designer; allowing your bots to query external sources for up-to-date information, score a model, and many other possibilities. This is very beneficial as SAS Conversation Designer is included in many offerings of the modernized SAS Viya platform, meaning you can easily create bots that are integrated with the other services of the SAS Viya platform or third-party services. For instance, if you are making a bot that takes feedback from a user you can use ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Boyd. Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact. As more organizations use AI in their production workloads, they have an increased need for secure, scalable, and responsible AI development. Today we’re announcing new Azure AI capabilities that will empower organizations to use AI with even more confidence. Train machine learning (ML) models on-premises and in multi-cloud environments with Azure Arc support for Azure Machine Learning. Deliver cutting-edge search experience in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In our previous post, we introduced PyDeequ, an open-source Python wrapper over Deequ, which enables you to write unit tests on your data to ensure data quality. The use case we ran through was on static, historical data, but most datasets are dynamic, so how can you quantify how your data is changing and detect anomalous changes over time? At Amazon, we’ve leveraged PyDeequ on AWS Glue to address this problem. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that allows you to easily prepare and combine your data for analytics, machine learning (ML), and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce the public preview of VNet connectivity for Power BI datasets. Protecting your data on the Microsoft cloud and ensuring secure and authorized access to this data has been our key focus. While Azure virtual networks (VNets) offer network isolation and security for your resources on the Microsoft cloud, this VNet connectivity feature enables secure outbound connectivity from Power BI to data sources within an Azure VNet. Please read Data insights without limit, security without compromise for an overview of other new Power BI security capabilities. Virtual ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch.  / Domopalooza 2021: Top 3 Breakout Sessions in Each Track Whether you are a business decision-maker eager to learn how to better evaluate dashboards and reports, an IT professional interested in becoming a data integration expert, or, say, a data scientist or app developer anxious to generate more value for your organization, Domopalooza 2021 has got you covered.  With three distinct tracks—Data Literacy, Data Agility, and Intelligent Action—the Modern BI event of the year is sure to provide something for every registrant.  The problem is, it’s impossible to take in every breakout under your preferred track on conference afternoon ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Luis. The Time-Series ecosystem Time-series analysis has been studied for more than a hundred years, however, the extraordinary growth of data available from numerous sources and more frequent growth of data alongside the growth of computer power (GPU & Multicore) makes the analysis of large-scale time-series data possible today in a way that was not previously practical. The use of time-series data has been traditionally linked to sectors where time is not just a metric but a primary axis, such as in finance, Industrial IoT, and energy. However, in the last ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Lewis Carr. And why is it better than a Data Lake or an Analytics Hub? In the opening installment of this blog series—Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs: Do we need another choice?  I explore why simply migrating these on-prem data integration, management, and analytics platforms to the Cloud does not fully address modern data analytics needs. In comparing these three platforms, it becomes clear that while all of them meet certain critical needs, none of them meet the needs of business end-users without significant support from IT. What we in fact need is a platform ... Read More