Why Excel Is a $60 Billion Black Hole
A third of the time spent using spreadsheets is wasted due to repetitive work and manual processes that could be streamlined with better data prep
Topic: Big Data
OpenText Magellan Has IBM Watson in Its Sights
OpenText has made the official move into artificial intelligence with Magellan, and it has not shied away from the big competitor it’s going after: IBM …
Why PostgreSQL should power GPU databases and analytics platforms
A turbo-charged version of PostgreSQL uses GPUs to massively accelerate what the popular database already does so well.
Lessons from LinkedIn: Faster Insights Through a Unified Data Ecosystem
LinkedIn implemented Apache Kafka to handle real-time data feeds and constructed “Gobblin," a data integration and ingestion
Streaming Analytics Basics: Kafka, Spark, and Cassandra
The Kafka-Spark-Cassandra pipeline has proved popular because Kafka scales easily to a big firehose of incoming events, to the order of 100,000/second and
12 Big Data Careers Worth Exploring
Want a career in big data? You don't necessarily have to know
Best Practices Learned From Big Data Projects
Don't assume your data is automatically
Using Apache Spark Machine Learning for Pattern Detection
As Oracle recounts, Apache Spark excels at running machine learning queries on massive data
Five Phases of Big Data Projects
First, identify the data and brainstorm a use case. Then make sure everything's in place to make it
Hybrid Integration Platforms: Using the Cloud and Microservices
The cloud and a microservices architecture can help with data systems integration, but first an organizational change has to occur.