Qualitative Data: The Context that Gives Meaning to Your Big Data

Someone once said “if you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it.” Another version of this belief says: “If you…

Read More »

Top 10 Big Data Trends in 2016 for Financial Services

2015 was a groundbreaking year for banking and financial markets firms, as they continue to learn how big data can…

Read More »

Julia – a Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing and Data Science

The Julia programming language was created in 2009 by Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral B Shah. It was broadly…

Read More »

The Art of Data Science: The Skills You Need and How to Get Them

The meteoric growth of available data has precipitated the need for data scientists to leverage that surplus of information. This…

Read More »

Building Apache Zeppelin for MapR using Spark under YARN

Apache Zeppelin is a web-based notebook that enables interactive data analytics. You can make beautiful data-driven, interactive and collaborative documents…

Read More »

Emotion-Based Computing: What It Is and How You Can Benefit

Emotions should not be discarded as a distraction. Understanding a pattern in a user’s emotion is important in order for…

Read More »

Apache Apex: OSS Incubator Project for Batch and Stream Processing

I am very pleased to be given the opportunity to guest blog on the MapR site, leveraging a blog which…

Read More »

Getting Started with the MapR Command Line (Part I)

The Apache Hadoop community has give us a great set of tools that allow us to interact with the Hadoop…

Read More »

Docker Global Hack Day #3: On-demand YARN Clusters

Editor’s note: This post was a result of the combined efforts of Swapnil Daingade, Sarjeet Singh, and Mitra Kaseebhotla. We…

Read More »