The Metaphysics of Big Data: Problem of Induction
How do we, human beings, acquire knowledge? Think for a sec! And don’t tell me that it is from text books, TV, internet or...
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Amplifying security intelligence with big data
Leading security intelligence solutions today rely upon a set of structured and semi-structured data sources, including logs, network traffic and others, to provide the...
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Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies
Most discussions on organizing Big Data center on repository frameworks – specifically Hadoop clusters and MapReduce frameworks. This technology-focused view often overlooks the most...
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Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies
Most discussions on organizing Big Data center on repository frameworks – specifically Hadoop clusters and MapReduce frameworks. This technology-focused view often overlooks the most...
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Are we headed for a platform change for Big Data?
Organizations are just digging in with big data, and already portents of change are forming. This time, it appears to be some re-thinking by...
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Crayon Data Founder, Suresh Shankar analyses Big Data over the last 13 years
With ever increasing volumes of data, companies have started stressing a lot on how to make sense accurately from this and hence the filed...
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Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is...
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Spoilt for Choice – How to choose the right Big Data / Hadoop Platform?
Big data becomes a relevant topic in many companies this year. Although there is no standard definition of the term „big data“, Hadoop is...
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Thamzi and Big Data
Have you ever read an autobiography and felt that the bugger is almost living your dream? One such book I read was “Don’t ask...
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Installation of HBase in the cluster
HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, column-oriented store modeled after Google ‘Bigtable’. This tutorial will describe how to setup and run Hbase cluster, with...
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Big Data Start-up Crayon Data Shares Plans for India Market
The big data-analytics start-up, Crayon Data, has announced its plans for India market. Crayon already has a few customers in the US and UK...
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Big Data and the Paradox of Choice
“Autonomy and freedom of choice are critical to our well-being, and choice is critical to freedom and autonomy. Nonetheless, though modern Americans have more...
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Big Data – how airlines should use it more effectively to boost ancillary revenue
As we all know, the airline industry today is extremely interested in two major trends – Big Data and ancillary revenue. Everyone is seemingly...
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5 Ways Big Data Can Help Retail Supply Chains
The supply chain is a critical component of a retailer’s business. This article identifies fives ways in which big data can enhance a retailer’s...
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'Big Data vs Intuition' paradox explained
Every business leader will have a dad’s story, I believe, — a memory or nostalgia how he/she was inspired by the attitudes/thoughts/decisions (sometimes seemingly...
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Big Data - Hype, Reality, Bill Gates and the Buddha
Today’s NYT carried a very good blog post on the six myths surrounding big data. Contrast this with another equally good article on the premise...
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Aviation Needs to Tap Big Data for Engine Design, Maintenance
The aerospace industry, and specifically jet engine manufacturers and the airlines that are their customers, need to catch up with the Big Data revolution,...
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Big Data can set your mind free...
In my last post, I talked about the paradox of big data, or how data can be misery… In today’s post, I will talk...
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Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine
Recommendation engines are arguably one of the trendiest uses of data science in startups today. How many new apps have you heard of that...
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The Paradox of Big Data... or Why Data is Misery
We’ve heard it shouted from every rooftop recently– big data is the next big thing, we’re a data-driven company, data underlies everything we do…....
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Big Data Is Going To Save The Film Industry, Too
As we approach the critical summer box office sales period, there’s no doubt the media industry has experienced a fundamental shift. We’ve evolved from...
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How big data can revolutionize pharmaceutical R&D
The big-data opportunity is especially compelling in complex business environments experiencing an explosion in the types and volumes of available data. In the health-care...
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A view from the Box
This is a space for us to crayon our thoughts, our points of view. On data. On analytics. On whats the latest. On whats...
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Why consumer packaged goods companies love big data
If I could sum up “success” in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry in one word, that word would be SPEED —the speed at...
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