Category: Big Data

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy. A centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog is important to minimize the amount of administration related to sharing metadata across different accounts. This post introduces capability that allows Amazon Athena to query a centralized Data Catalog across different AWS accounts.Overview of solution In late 2019, AWS introduced the ability to Connect Amazon Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. Using this functionality, you can also configure Athena to point to a Data Catalog in a different account. The Hive Metastore functionality uses an AWS Lambda function to federate queries to ... Read More

Feed: Blue Medora. Author: Nate Coppinger. This is part one of a three-part blog series on Log Management for Google Stackdriver with BindPlane Proper Log Management Whether you’re a multi-billion-dollar tech firm or a small startup, sorting your data in a usable and logical manner can prove to be a major challenge. No matter the size of your company, you are going to have individuals within your organization that only need access to specific data and information. Providing them with anything extra ends up slowing down workflows and creates digital clutter. When you first begin ingesting data with Google Stackdriver ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. A digitally transformed organization is one that is “alive and awake to everything that is going on around it” and knows how to leverage connections to take advantage of its place within a complex ecosystem.  That is one of the key points made in the inaugural episode of Domo Connects, a podcast that explores matters related to digital transformation and organizational optimization through compelling conversations with some of the brightest minds in business. In the episode, I speak with Peter Sole, Helen Mumford-Sole and Julie Rufo of digital transformation insight provider Mumford Sole Partners ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Katharine Marais; Novel fintech like cryptocurrency and blockchain have disrupted and fundamentally reimagined such previously eminent and staid realities such as the government monopoly on currency-creation. As fintech has risen to prominence, an unlikely mascot has emerged to represent the convenience enabled by novel financial technologies; mobile banking ads have portrayed ballerinas paying for goods while performing- logging into Visa or Chase apps from the wings, or hilariously, paying for goods while doing a “grand jete between two grand pianos,” in one tongue-in-cheek commercial by Chase. They portray a shared sentiment: that we are ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Haseeb Najam. You have hired an SEO agency for your online business.You are running an outreach campaign.But how are you measuring the ROI of your search marketing activities?ROI (Return on Investment) is one of the most focused areas in marketing and economics, especially since digital marketing activities are one hundred percent measurable ineffectiveness of generating business opportunities. Although ROI is an indicator that is presented as a percentage of the profitability of a business or investment, it is also an element of great importance in the management and optimization of search marketing campaigns.Any business ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Roman Chuprina. Machine Learning is a term heard around the world these days. Industries like Retail, Healthcare, and Manufacturing are taking the best out of it. So does the leaders in Banking and Finance. There is enough time and room before the technology will truly explode. However, we can still talk about some real-world use cases and ways your business can benefit. AI and ML in financial services Machine learning in finance is rapidly developing – there are already dozens of options for its use in the financial sector. So why ... 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. To subscribe, follow this link.   Featured Resources and Technical Contributions  Key Graph Based Shortest Path Algorithms - Part 1: Dijkstra's And Bellman-Ford + Portfolio optimization with Quantum Computing Multi Gigabyte R data.table for Ohio Voter Registration/History Importance of Hyper-parameters in Model development Deep Learning from first principles in Python, R and Octave Docker in 10 minutes Scene-rendering with Google's DeepMind 5 Most Preferred Programming ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Fahad Zaidi. Having spent the better part of the last decade helping organisations in the U.S. and the U.K. use data to drive profit, efficiency, and performance improvements, I thought it would be helpful to jot down best practices for organizations that are looking to get the most value out of their enterprise-level financial and operational data sets. Every organisation entering the roaring 20s knows that they must use their data as a strategic differentiator to gain a competitive advantage and this article lists five things all companies must do to ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: pearl-chen; If you’re at a multinational company, running your data operations across various clouds and geographies can be a time-consuming, complicated process. Cloud Pak for Data, our leading data and AI platform, partners with Cockroach to solve multicloud and compliance challenges so organizations can scale their data strategies across the globe.CockroachDB is a relational database for next generation, cloud-native applications. Named for the most resilient species on earth, CockroachDB delivers a durable, consistent, distributed SQL transactional database at scale. Said VP of business development Eric Goldstein: “We've built the ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Jack Mardack. It feels like only yesterday that “Machine Learning” and “Artificial Intelligence” were equated with science fiction by most regular folks outside of tech. As a movie-going culture, we have a long history of associating these concepts with self-aware robots or rogue computer programs that could escape the laboratories where they were created and threaten all humanity. But in 2020, ML and AI have been considerably demystified. And yet, even if it seems less likely now that the Singularity will be triggered by the reckless ambition of some tech startup, consumers have new reasons to be concerned. Yes, ML and AI are going mainstream, and it’s not just disruption-minded startups that are leveraging these technologies. Enterprises in a wide range of established industries are finding solid business reasons ... Read More