Big Data Analytics

It is fairly widely known that Hillary Clinton employed a team of around 60 data scientists to guide her campaign to be President. Clearly it wasn’t a game winner, since life is about more than numbers and clicks. Donald Trump on the other hand didn’t bother with data science until…

Big data analytics is moving on. Until recently it meant wrestling with MapReduce and glueing a dozen or more components together to make a viable big data platform. The big data analytics tools listed below ‘shrink wrap’ big data technologies to some degree and make the whole effort much more…

Big data analytics is concerned with the creation of value from the wide variety and high volume of data associated with big data, and often at a speed that traditional data management infrastructures cannot handle. Until value is extracted from big data it is a pure infrastructure cost. New types…