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Companies are desperately seeking mysterious creatures — data scientists. Some people claim to have seen them in LinkedIn and Target. Perhaps, those were encounters with data scientists from LinkedIn...
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Technology robs words of their intrinsic meaning: what happened to “like” and “friend”? Is it true that Facebook patented “face”? What is “oracle”? Who is Cassandra — a NoSQL database or a Trojan...
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Like Lilliputians from Gulliver’s Travels, divided over which end of a boiled egg to crack, modern technologists are debating whether big data is a revolution or an evolution. Roughly 60% of the...
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Selfie is the word of 2013. Or maybe, it isn’t. There are other winners: (data) science, privacy and geek. The latter wins for acquiring a more positive image, together with hacker, I assume. These...
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Big Data Analytics is a Rocket Ship Fueled by Social, Mobile and Cloud
The rocket ship of big data analytics is launched and on its way to orbit. Data and analytics are gaining importance with a cosmic speed. The rocket ship is fueled by cloud, mobile and social forces....
View ArticleHadoop is dead, long live Hadoop!
This year, we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of Hadoop. In 2006, we lived in the dark ages of data: Several databases were old news and a single Gartner analyst was covering them all. Today, a...
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