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The History of Hadoop: From Small Starts to Big Data
Named after a toy elephant belonging to developer Doug Cutting’s son, over the past decade Hadoop has proven to be the little platform that could. From its humble beginnings as an open source search...
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Finding Problem Solvers Who Provide Big Answers: An Interview with Harper Reed
Harper Reed, CTO for the Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign, delivered the keynote speech at EMC Greenplum’s Hadoop: The Foundation for Change event on Monday, February 25. Reed delivered what he called...
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Paul Maritz Calls for a “Consumer-Grade Enterprise” Platform
Over the past decade, consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have invested heavily in user data — storing it, analyzing it, and using the insights revealed to rapidly iterate on...
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eBay’s Beth Axelrod: Predictive Analytics is Transforming Human Resources
eBay’s Beth Axelrod The challenges of hiring skilled data scientists is well-documented, but what of Big Data’s impact on talent recruitment within other fields? According to Beth Axelrod, eBay’s...
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Chorus In Action at Data Science London
Logan Lee at Data Science London. Image via Data Science London (@ds_ldn) Over the past few years, organizations like Data Science London have sprung up in major metropolitan cities all over the world....
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Pivotal: All Systems Go
Pivotal, the new company uniting EMC Greenplum’s decade of big data R & D, agile development trailblazers Pivotal Labs, and VMWare’s cloud services and app framework acumen, is ready to launch. In...
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A Robot Gave Me My Job!
“A robot took my job!” The familiar refrain gets at a long-running cultural anxiety that machines will render human workers redundant. “My father had worked for the same firm for twelve years,” begins...
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Effective Data Visualization Techniques, from Business to Social Advocacy
No matter how much data you amass, or how ingenious your models may be, your efforts are only as effective as how you communicate the insights revealed. Data visualization is not a new art, but one...
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Pivotal, A NEW PLATFORM FOR A NEW ERA
Just as consumer-facing web giants such as Google and Facebook have done, enterprise companies increasingly need to store and analyze massive amounts of data cost-effectively, ingest huge numbers of...
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Making Hadoop MapReduce Work with a Redis Cluster
Redis is a very cool open-source key-value store that can add instant value to your Hadoop installation. Since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, Redis can be used as a...
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