Big Data training: Theory behind Big Data Part II “Data scientist is the sexiest job of 21st century”, as quoted in an article in Harvard Business Review written by D.J. Patil (former data scientist at LinkedIn) and Davenport, senior adviser at Deloitte Analytics. This is just half the story, and probably the shining half. The other half […]
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Best Hadoop Use Cases in Eight Industries Hadoop in Retail Big Data Analytics is not a new concept in the retail industry. A survey conducted in June 2013 by Gartner predicts that Big Data spending in Retail Analytics will cross the $232 billion mark by 2016. Gartner survey also projects that the retail Big Data […]
Recently, we held a one-on-one with Asjad Yahya, Director @ Shuaa Capital psc, Investment Banker & Angel Investor, Dubai. The session was held at Allied Consultants head office. The chat revolved around the most important things that start-up founders should consider when pitching their idea to Angel & Venture Capital investors. Watch the video and […]
The video recording is Vol 1 of the Hadoop Stack training delivered by Allied Consultants. Training was conducted by Khurram M Pirzada, Hadoop Lead at Allied Consultants. The training was moderated by Sharjeel Sohaib, lead content developer at Allied Consultants. Vol 1 of the training video gives an overview of: What is Big Data? Why, where […]
It was January 2014 and one of our BI resources came-up with an idea to (god knows where these insane ideas pop-up into the heads of otherwise sane people) do social media event analysis using Microsoft Power BI. We did not stop him. The event he tracked was Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014. The two hashtags […]
News Key Points Policy engine aims to provide security for big data infrastructure Blue Talon policy engine, dynamic data masking, stealthy analytics and auditing Why Hadoop is the obvious choice for managing Big Data Early players, global Hadoop market HP Vertica users put limits on using Hadoop for analytics Predictive modeling, Data visualization “BIG DATA”: […]
We sat down with Khurram M. Pirzada, Big Data practice lead at Allied Consultants to ask him about the main challenges that developers come across an Apache Cassandra database (and NoSQL databases in general). Here are the major issues, along with their solutions that Pirzada highlighted. 1. Read-time Degradation “Relational databases cannot handle very large […]
The five key challenges of working in in Hadoop MapReduce are: Lack of data storage and support capabilities Lack of application deployment support Lack of analytical capabilities in database Issues in online processing Privacy and Security challenges Download Your Free Big Data Hadoop Software Requirements Document Here MapReduce defined IBM defines MapReduce as two separate and distinct tasks […]
Preface The questionnaire is based on TDWI’s Big Data Maturity Model Guide 2013. We have tweaked it into a questionnaire to help big data project managers & CIOs to help identify their respective stage in the maturity model, and do some quantification of their current state of big data maturity (based on the scores assigned […]