Bet Super Bowl 50 Like A Boss with Apache Spark

This time, it’s personal. Super Bowl 50 is being played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara – within sight of…

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Streaming in the Extreme

Are you ready to start streaming all the events in your business? What happens to your streaming solution when you…

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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…

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What Will You Do in 2016? Apache Spark, Kafka, Drill and More

Let’s have some fun. It’s the start of a new year — we’re on the threshold of something new —…

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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…

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MapReduce Design Patterns Implemented in Apache Spark

This blog is a first in a series that discusses some design patterns from the book MapReduce design patterns and…

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Introduction to Apache Spark with Examples and Use Cases

I first heard of Spark in late 2013 when I became interested in Scala, the language in which Spark is…

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BaDaS Arsenal : from grep to graph in under 5 minutes w/ Pyplot

BaDaS = Big and Data and Science These days, BaDaS is all the rage. And to be successful at it,…

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Changing the Game When it Comes to Auditing in Big Data – Part 2

In my previous blog post we enabled auditing at the various levels of your MapR cluster. In this follow up…

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