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How the NFL s data operation tracks every move on the field

Nov 30, 2016

Analytics have been important to sports at least since the first coach timed players in the hundred-yard dash, but some pro leagues have embraced statistical game analysis much faster, and more effectively, than others. Lagging behind professional baseball, basketball and soccer has been football, mired in good measure by the sheer complexity of the game. That's changing, and fast. The...Go To Article

Amazon Athena – Interactive SQL Queries for Data in Amazon S3

Nov 30, 2016

The amount of data that we all have to deal with grows every day (I still keep a floppy disk or two around in order to remind myself that 1.44 MB once seemed like a lot of storage). These days, many people routinely process and query data in structured or semi-structured files at petabyte scale. They want to do this...Go To Article

 

How to Resolve Competing Information Management Strategies

Dec 01, 2016

One of the most complex challenges may involve competing IM strategies within a larger ecosystem.

Facebook’s advice to students interested in artificial intelligence

Dec 01, 2016

Students should work to address a specific problem and try to release a piece of open source code before all is said and done.

MapR’s new Ecosystem Pack for developers enables Big Data streaming

Dec 01, 2016

New Big Data streaming capabilities in its latest Ecosystem Pack.

Industry Watch: Microservices and scaling out Big Data

Nov 30, 2016

There are some complementary technologies that really are game-changing in terms of how to take advantage of [microservices].

Jupyter And R Markdown: Notebooks With R

Nov 30, 2016

Notebooks are perfect for situations where you want to combine plain text with rich text elements.

5 Trends For Cloud Computing and the Data Center In 2017

Nov 30, 2016

Investments in cloud computing will continue aggressively in 2017. But many organizations will opt for multi-cloud environments in their data centers.

Offline streaming is nice, Netflix, but we still want these 8 features

Nov 30, 2016

There are still some features Netflix is missing.

How online maps can help fight the outbreak of hate in America

Nov 30, 2016

Some organizations are turning to digital maps to fight the outbreak of violence and intimidation.

Chromecast Audio review

Nov 28, 2016

Google introduced a plug-and-play dongle designed to make streaming video from a mobile device to a TV easier.

In Praise of Modular BI

Nov 28, 2016

BI is more vital than ever.

FAA bans journalists from flying drones at Standing Rock oil pipeline protest

Nov 28, 2016

Drone footage of clashes with police at the campsite have gone viral.

ArangoDB Closes 2.2 Million Euro Investment Led by Target Partners

Nov 24, 2016

Funding to accelerate the company’s product development and international expansion.

Intel, Broad Institute Join to Improve Analytics Use In Genomic Research

Nov 23, 2016

How to be to be better equipped to integrate and process genomic data.

On-Demand Webinar and FAQ: How to Evaluate Cloud-based Apache Spark Platforms

Nov 23, 2016

Practical best practices and tools to evaluate and compare the most popular cloud-based Spark solutions.

What to do when your small business needs to grow its workforce

Nov 23, 2016

Learn how other entrepreneurs approach staffing and get inspired for your own business.

To Achieve Advanced Analytics, Start with Big Data Integration

Nov 22, 2016

Big data requires new forms of processing.

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise

Nov 21, 2016

Answers to some key questions about the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in enterprises.

Raspbian + OpenCV pre-configured and pre-installed

Nov 21, 2016

Blog post covers three MASSIVE updates related to the Raspberry Pi and the PyImageSearch blog.

Apache Spark: A Unified Engine for Big Data Processing

Nov 20, 2016

The growth of data volumes in industry and research poses tremendous opportunities. And tremendous computational challenges too.

Migrating an Excel Spreadsheet to MySQL and to Spark 2.0.1 (Part 1)

Nov 19, 2016

Moving legacy data to modern big data platform can be daunting at times. It doesn’t have to be.

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