Category: Big Data

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Classifying text content with the Natural Language API Tuesday, September 19, 2017 By Sara Robinson, Developer Advocate If you work in the media industry, chances are you’ve spent more hours than you’d like manually tagging text content like blogposts, news articles or marketing copy. With the Natural Language API, you can now tag all of this content with a single API call. Using the new classify_text endpoint, the Natural Language API will return a content category ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Manu Jeevan. Data science has gathered a lot of steam in the past few years, and most companies now acknowledge the integral role data plays in driving business decisions. Python, along with R, is one of the most handy tools in a data scientist’s arsenal. It’s also one of the simplest computer languages to learn and use, primarily because most concepts can be expressed in fewer lines of code in Python, than in other languages. Hence, beginners venturing out into the field of data science should definitely familiarise themselves ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. “Data will talk to you if you’re willing to listen”— Jim Bergeson. Few can dispute that. However, the challenge comes when data transforms into bundles and stacks of unorganized and unstructured data sets. The challenge comes with listening to big data and making sense of what it says. With big data, the conversing data becomes loud and noisy. You don’t hear the voice; you hear the cacophony. This is where organizations struggle. And, amidst a struggle, you look up to the leaders to see how they are rising to the challenge. You ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Simon Ball. With the increases in data volumes, explosion in number of devices and sophistication of attackers, current cybersecurity tools are challenged processing the millions of events and providing insights fast enough. Cybersecurity teams spend hours analyzing threat events by going from one tool to the next.  We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hortonworks Cybersecurity Package (HCP) that provides a single pane of glass view into threat events across your entire landscape. The package offers full Hortonworks support for the Apache Metron project, which is an open source cyber security platform ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Brent Dykes. Imagine the following conversation between Alice—the CEO of a hot, new augmented-reality startup (Wonderland GO)—and her data scientist, the Cheshire Cat. CEO Alice asks the Cheshire Cat, who is sitting at his desk, “What should we measure in our new executive dashboard?” The cat asks, “What do you want to achieve?” “I don’t know,” CEO Alice answers. “Then,” says the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” Without a well-defined set of business goals, it’s hard to know what should or shouldn’t be measured. It’s difficult to anticipate what business questions will need to ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Andrea Sparks. It’s no secret collaboration is key to improving efficiency, productivity, and innovation, which in turn leads to better business decisions. But when you apply the concept of collaboration to analytics, everything gets better. A lot better. Collaborative analytics bring people, ideas, and processes together. Add BI to the mix, and the entire process becomes an analytics powerhouse, enabling stakeholders to not only analyze current and historical data, but share perspectives and zero in on actionable insights. Think about it: without analysis and perspective from other departments, how can finance make strategic decisions that don’t ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Satish Meena. The four essentials to rock the 2017 holiday seasonWin the hearts and wallets of always-connected, deal-savvy consumers. Watch the webinar replay    On October 6, 2014, Flipkart launched Big Billion Day, an event that occurs within India’s festive season — a holiday period that accounts for 40% of the total sales of key brands in India. Now in its fourth year, Big Billion Day has expanded from a one-day event to five days. In 2014, Snapdeal launched similar sales to compete with Big Billion Day; the following year, Amazon launched its Great Indian Festive ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Friday, September 15, 2017 By Nick Mihailovski, Product Manager Editor’s note: Last week, the Google Data Studio team announced new features that make it even more useful for creating and sharing rich, visual reports that accelerate time-to-insight from data in a Google BigQuery-powered data warehouse. We’ve re-posted a version of the original announcement below for your convenience. Over the past six months we’ve launched over 25 new features in Google Data Studio including: ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Big Data is amazing. It describes our everyday behavior, keeps track of the places we go, stores what we like to do and how much time we spend doing our favorite activities. Big Data is made of numbers, and I think we all agree when we say: Numbers are difficult to look at. Enter Big Data visualization. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and Netflix all ask better questions of their data – and make better business decisions – by using data visualization. It gets better: Data visualization lets you interact with data. It goes beyond analysis. Visualization brings a presentation ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Olawale Oladehin. Post by Marcos Ortiz, an AWS Solutions ArchitectThe AWS IoT platform allows you to use substitution templates to augment the JSON data returned when a rule is triggered and AWS IoT performs a rule action. The syntax for a substitution template is ${expression}, where expression can be any expression supported by AWS IoT in SELECT or WHERE clauses. For more information about supported expressions, see AWS IoT SQL Reference. The substitution template is an important feature for AWS IoT customers, especially when there’s a need  to dynamically add some contextual information that is ... Read More