Click to learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Introducing the Big Data & Brews video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. The series will touch on hot topics within the business of Machine Learning, Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next Generation Technologies. In today’s video […]
New Meaning in Big Data
Click to learn more about author Jon Bock. The evolution of data analytics is approaching an inflection point. Early on, discussions of big data served largely to create awareness about the potential of mining large-scale data. Those discussions evolved over time into how to build solutions that could handle that data and stories of how […]
What is a Modern BI Platform?
Click to learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Introducing the Big Data & Brews video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. The series will touch on hot topics within the business of Machine Learning, Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, and Next Generation Technologies. In today’s video […]
Instilling Industrial Discipline in Enterprise Analytics
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. We’re living in a supposedly post-industrial era. So it can feel a bit odd to refer to the need to bring “industrialization,” an “assembly line” approach, or “factory”-like processes to the development of business analytics. Behind any such discussion, the specter of automation usually lurks, as […]
Lowering the Barrier to Big Data Analytics
Click to learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Introducing the Big Data & Brews video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. The series will touch on hot topics within the business of Machine Learning, Big Data, Analytics, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, Modern BI, NoSQL and Next Generation Technologies. In today’s video […]
Identifying and Deleting “Empty” Columns in R data.frames
Click here to learn more about Steve Miller. Toward the end of last month’s blog on SAS, R, Python, and WPS, I mentioned a current project challenge of identifying and eliminating “mostly” null columns from wide SAS data sets. As the team discovered, such columns can impose a significant drag on performance. My take is that while […]
SAS, R, or Python – Enter World Programming System (WPS)
Click here to learn more about author Steve Miller. With more than a little serendipity, I came across a report detailing the results of the third annual survey by Burtch Works Executive Recruiting, entitled “SAS, R, or Python Survey 2016: Which Tool Do Analytics Pros Prefer?” The survey asked each respondent to name the single […]
The Knowledge Representation Corner: Procedural vs. Declarative
Click to learn more about author Adam Pease. Programmers that are new to ontology may be prone to think that any tool or language can be used to represent terms, definitions, and facts about the world. After all, as programmers, we’re used to solving problems in code and know that whether we use Perl, C++, Java, […]
Making Your Data Progressively Smarter
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. Data is data. It’s not inherently dumb or smart. What matters is whether your data, be it large or small, contributes to smarter decisions. How can you leverage your big-data resource so that it drives smarter decisions? Last year, DATAVERSITY published this thought-provoking Dataversity article in which they stated […]
How You Know Insight as a Service is Right for Your Enterprise
Click here to learn more about author Luca Scagliarini. Businesses are buying all kinds of data and data analytics solutions but they may still fail to meet their business goals. Increasingly, vendors and professional services firms are offering Insights as a Service (IaaS), which can be part of the cloud stack or a new, pay-for-answers economic model. Let me […]