Tag: Analytics
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How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files
How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail. Interesting case of large scale data analysis in a volunteer organization
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Key questions when selecting an analytic RDBMS
Key questions when selecting an analytic RDBMS: Assuming you know that you really want to manage your analytic database with a relational DBMS, the first questions you ask yourself could be: How big is your database? How big is your budget? How do you feel about appliances? How do you feel about the cloud? What…
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Twitter Has Been Shredded Into Slices
I was excited about Slices, a Twitter client which – I hoped – would allow me to read my feed by topic of interest. Unfortunately I found out, after trying its desktop client now, that it only knows how to put known accounts into categories. It doesn’t work with 98% of the accounts I follow,…
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Nodeable gives Hadoop a real-time boost with StreamReduce
Analytics for the Sysadmin… used to be called Event Management, and taking ages to deploy, configure and optimize. Now the guys can just create their own analytics jobs. Sounds like a winner to me! Rather than just produce a stream of tweet-like alerts to sysadmins, Nodeable would actually alert them to anomalies and emerging patterns…
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The Hadoop Ecosystem, Visualized in Datameer
The Hadoop Ecosystem, Visualized in Datameer: It’s all about the Datameer guys showing off their visualization tools. Well done!
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Funding for Platfora, Analytics Platform for Hadoop
Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5.7M Round In Analytics Platform For Hadoop Data Platfora: Platfora works with existing Hadoop clusters, including Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon EMR, among others, and automatically turns these huge amounts of data into dimensional and predictive dashboards, reports and insights. The company’s server architecture enables sub-second report delivery, analytics overlay, and drill down…
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Mixpanel Pushes Real-Time Analytics to End Users
Somebody’s taking Microsoft motto of putting BI into the hands of users to the extreme: Mixpanel Pushes Real-Time Analytics to End Users. The new offering from the analytics startup gives customers the ability to offer real-time data to their users, letting them see who’s commenting on their posts, what the click-through rates are on ads,…
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Analytics Pissing Contest
Aster Data Founder Mayank Bawa is engaging in an analytics pissing contest with Vertica in Sessionize with Style? …Or How a column-only, SQL-only database and lack of MapReduce, will cramp your style!, all that about a mini-series of Vertica blogs, where a Vertica engineer was pointing out perceived flaws of Aster and Teradata. Let’s sit…
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The Big Data Era: How Data Strategy Will Change
Doug Henschen’s The Big Data Era: How Data Strategy Will Change is another good piece about the future of BI and Big Data (registration required, or ask Google for freely accessible copies of the article). He mentions lots of different companies, their challenges and how they solved them, so good to get an overview of…
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Dual BI Architectures: The Time Has Come
In Dual BI Architectures: The Time Has Come, Wayne Eckerson suggests that: As an industry, it’s time we acknowledge the obvious: our traditional data warehousing architectures are excellent for managing reports and dashboards against standard corporate data, but they are suboptimal for managing ad hoc requests against heterogeneous data. We need dual BI architectures: one…
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