Washington DC Area Hadoop Users Group (HUG)
If you are working on Big Data projects in or around the federal space a resource you will want to…
How to Share Bad Project News
In the spirit of the holiday season, I just wanted to bring some levity to the blog. I’ll leave it…
The Next Generation BI Professional – Things Will Be Very Different
The next generation business intelligence professional is not one who has experienced complex deployments, lengthy project time frames and unpredictable…
Revolution Newsletter: December 2011
The most recent edition of the Revolution Newsletter is out. The news section is below, and you can read the full December edition (with…
Are Data Scientists the Next Masters of the Universe?
Back in the late 1970s, traders buying and selling mortgages were pushed aside for new masters of the universe—“quants” or…
Incorporating MapReduce in the Analytics Environment
A few weeks ago, I attended the Hadoop World show in New York to hear first-hand how organizations are making…
Government Big Data Award Nominee: GCE Federal
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
Hadoop is an Open Source Revolution: Federal Computer Week Interview
Open source software has historically had a hard time competing with its big budget proprietary rivals but, as Bob Gourley…
