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LinkedIn open-sources WhereHows, a metadata management tool

Mar 03, 2016

LinkedIn today announced that it’s open-sourcing a piece of its software called WhereHows, which allows anyone in a company to learn about and share information on data that company has under management. The software is now available on GitHub under an open-source Apache license. LinkedIn has many systems for storing and processing data, including Teradata’s data warehousing technology, the open...Go To Article

Exclusive – Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia Talks Analytics and Data Warehousing

Feb 26, 2016

Bob Muglia is Chief Executive Officer of San Mateo, Calif.-based Snowflake Computing, a cloud data warehousing company founded in 2012 by a team of experts who hold over 120 patents in the fields of database architecture, data warehouses, query optimization and parallelization. Snowflake was created with the vision to reinvent the data warehouse, bringing together all users, all data and...Go To Article

What Should Apache Spark Mean to Your Business?

Feb 26, 2016

Apache Spark has quickly risen to prominence in the big data world. With more than 750 contributors from more than 200 organizations, Spark has become the largest open source community in big data. A number of large enterprises, like Amazon, Groupon, Baidu, Yahoo and others, have deployed Spark, and it’s been embraced by a number of enterprise vendors, like Cloudera...Go To Article

The Evolution of Python for Data Science

Feb 26, 2016

Click here to learn more about author Steve Miller. I’ve been programming in Python for almost 15 years. When I started around 2001, I was doing most of my non-statistical work in C and Perl, the early days of Fortran, PL/I, and Pascal thankfully by then long gone. Just as with R for statistical computing, I now like that Python...Go To Article

 

Introducing GraphFrames

Mar 03, 2016

High-performance graph processing functionality from Databricks. Keep up the good work!

LinkedIn open-sources WhereHows, a metadata management tool

Mar 03, 2016

Metadata management has been an area of need in open-source!

Big Data Study Reveals Depths of Tech Worker Dissatisfaction

Mar 01, 2016

Interesting and somewhat troubling insights about employee attitudes!

The Impact of Real-time Computing Systems – Part 2

Feb 29, 2016

Some meaty content about the real-time paradigm

MapR Unveils Free Apache Spark Training and Developer Certification

Feb 29, 2016

Great opportunity to develop your technical skills

A Complete Tutorial to learn Data Science in R from Scratch

Feb 28, 2016

Care for building accurate predictive models yourself?! Go for this tutorial!

Exclusive – Snowflake Computing CEO Bob Muglia Talks Analytics and Data Warehousing

Feb 26, 2016

An industry veteran innovates again - this time for high-powered data warehousing

Yahoo releases CaffeOnSpark deep learning software to open source community

Feb 26, 2016

Yahoo picks up a large-scale trend in the field of deep learning

What Should Apache Spark Mean to Your Business?

Feb 26, 2016

Find out what criteria make Spark a good fit for your business

What Should Apache Spark Mean to Your Business?

Feb 26, 2016

Good overview of Spark's value

The Evolution of Python for Data Science

Feb 26, 2016

Excellent perspective on Python by a guy who knows his stuff!

12 Real-World Solutions for IoT Analytics — Upside

Feb 26, 2016

Interesting info from an opensource pioneer

12 Real-World Solutions for IoT Analytics — Upside

Feb 26, 2016

Internet of Things is here to stay!

FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces Key Actions to Accelerate Precision Medicine Initiative

Feb 25, 2016

$200 million for Precision Science is a good start!

The Next Big Thing In Big Data: BDaaS

Feb 24, 2016

What exactly is BDaaS?!

Two-Thirds of Firms Now Have Significant Investments In the Cloud

Feb 24, 2016

Good news for cloud service providers

Google AMP, Mobile Publishing Facebook Instant Articles Rival, Is Live

Feb 24, 2016

New ambitious open-source project launched! Let's try to be patient!

Agile Alternatives for a Modernized Data Warehouse Environment — Upside

Feb 24, 2016

Is your data warehouse environment ripe for renovation?

Celebrate the Big Data Problems – #2

Feb 23, 2016

Another Big Data problem resolved!

Microservices: The rise of Kafka

Feb 23, 2016

Looks like Kafka has a trick up its sleeve!

Hazelcast says Gridgain faked benchmark result • The Register

Feb 22, 2016

Bitter feud between information technology companies

What you missed in Big Data: Training AIs

Feb 22, 2016

Competition in BigData world is getting fierce

What’s Next in Computing? — Medium

Feb 21, 2016

Computing technology gets more predictable and even more amazing

Endless Mini review

Feb 19, 2016

A rare breed with global plan!

Axel Springer’s Die Welt Is Google Accelerated Mobile Pages Partner

Feb 19, 2016

Google’s appropriate response to Facebook and Apple

Salesforce Acquires PredictionIO To Build Up Its Machine Learning Muscle

Feb 19, 2016

Smart move by Salesforce to grab PredictionIO

Exaptive and the Future of Data Science

Feb 18, 2016

An insightful interview with CEO and founder of Exaptive

If You Build It, Be Sure You Can Find It

Feb 18, 2016

Core strategic innovation indispensable to any aspiring analyst and leading company

A Look Back at Spark Summit East 2016: Thank you NYC!

Feb 18, 2016

The highlights from Spark Summit East 2016

Six categories of Data Scientists

Feb 17, 2016

Developing a strong knowledge base across multiple domains seems quite realistic

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