Operational Database Management Systems
The value of Apache Kafka in Big Data ecosystem By Jun Rao, co-founder at Confluent Enterprises have been adopting various technologies for Big Data these days. One of the technologies being increasingly adopted is Apache Kafka,...
Common misconceptions about SQL on Hadoop By Cynthia M. Saracco, Senior Solutions Architect, IBM Now that many Hadoop-based Big Data platforms offer SQL support, misconceptions about SQL on Hadoop seem to proliferating. In this...
Heuristics and Randomness in Analytics BY Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro, Data Scientist at EMC2, Brazil, visiting professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, and lecturer and researcher at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil. Analytics can be...
Data Analytics – Is Sentiment Analysis Valid? By Richard J Self, University of Derby Sentiment Analytics of social media sources data has become an area of significant activity in many organisations. It is claimed...
WHY DATA SCIENCE NEEDS STORY TELLING BY Steve Lohr, technology reporter for the New York Times It often seems a waste that so many of the finest minds in computer science have dedicated themselves...
The Data Lake: A Brief SWOT Analysis By Tamara Dull, Director of Emerging Technologies ▪ SAS Best Practices For the last few months, I have engaged in an online debate about the data lake...
People Innovation BY Yuval Dvir, Strategy Head, Global Operations, Google There is a lot of buzz around the word ‘innovation’ and how embracing it can transform your business. Similar buzz can also be heard...
The sharing economy: A theme for regulation in the digital age By Nikolaos Korfiatis Assistant Professor in Business Analytics and Regulation, University of East Anglia Associated faculty, Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) We can...
Pre-emptive Financial Markets Regulation – next step for Big Data. By Morgan Deane, member of the Board and International Head of Legal & Compliance for the Helvea-Baader Bank Group. Some months ago, I commented...
A/B Testing is not art, it is science. By Ramkumar Ravichandran, Director, Analytics, Visa Inc. Call it A/B Testing, call it Optimization, call it Growth Hacking, call it Test & Learn, call it whatever...