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Big Analytics Roundup (November 9, 2015)
My roundup of the Spark Summit Europe is here. Two important events this week: H2O World starts today and runs through Wednesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. Yotam Levy...
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Looking Ahead: Big Analytics in 2016
Every year around this time I review last year’s forecast and publish some thoughts about the coming year. 2015 Assessment First, a brief review of my predictions for 2015: (1) Apache Spark usage will...
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Big Analytics Roundup (March 7, 2016)
Hortonworks wins the internet this week beating the drum for its partnership with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. The story is down under “Commercial Announcements,” just above the story about...
View ArticleApache Spark for Big Analytics (Updated for Spark Summit and Release 1.0.1)
Updated and bumped July 10, 2014. For a powerpoint version on Slideshare, go here. Introduction Apache Spark is an open source distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Hadoop....
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2014 Predictions: Advanced Analytics
A few predictions for the coming year. (1) Apache Spark matures as the preferred platform for advanced analytics in Hadoop. Spark will achieve top-level project status in Apache by July; that...
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Spark Summit 2014 Roundup
Key highlights from the 2014 Spark Summit: Spark is the single most active project in the Hadoop ecosystem Among Hadoop distributors, Cloudera and MapR are clear leaders with Spark SAP now offers a...
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2014 Predictions: Mid-Year Check
Back in January, I published this post with predictions for 2014. Thought it would be fun to validate how well the crystal ball works. (1) Apache Spark matures as the preferred platform for advanced...
View ArticleStrata + Hadoop World 2014
A sellout crowd of 5,500 met at the Javits Center in New York last week for the 2014 Strata + Hadoop World conference. There were three major themes: Big Data in Action. In his keynote address, Mike...
View ArticleBig Analytics Roundup (March 9, 2015)
Here’s a roundup of interesting Big Analytics news and analysis from the past week. Featured this week: Hortonworks, Alpine, Spark and H2O. Hortonworks Matt Asay, writing in InfoWorld, deconstructs...
View ArticleSpark Summit Europe Roundup
The 2015 Spark Summit Europe met in Amsterdam October 27-29. Here is a roundup of the presentations, organized by subject areas. I’ve omitted a few less interesting presentations, including some...
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