Walmart Makes Big Data Part of Its DNA
Walmart started using big data even before the term big data became known in the industry and in 2012 they…
Data Visualization and BI Tools Selection
Data Visualization plays a very significant role in the world of Business Intelligence (BI). By efficiently identifying trends and patterns,…
Informatica: Establishing Order from Information Chaos
I recently attended the annual Informatica analyst summit to get the latest on that company’s strategy and plans. The data integration…
Big Data’s Journey: From Big and Clumsy to Small and Cost-Effective
Author: Chanu Damarla, Senior Director of Product Management at GoodData (Twitter: @cd2k)We’ve evolved from a world of pre-packaged business process solutions to…
Big Data Success Stories: Take Them with a Grain of Salt
For every successful “Big Data” case study listed in Harvard Business Review, Fortune or the like, there are thousands of many…
Is Hadoop Knowledge a Must-Have for Today’s Big Data Scientist?
Finding data scientists and other highly technical resources that understand the complexity of big data is one of the most…
SQL Visualization in the Spreadsheet
SQL is a database query and programming language for retrieving, updating, and managing the data from relational database. SQL was…
Outsourcing Analytics vs. DIY: Tips for Executives
If your organization has not yet embraced analytics, you may be wondering “What’s the best way to get started?” A…
Analytics, Graph Search, APIs: Is Facebook Struggling with Big Data?
It astounds me that the recent Facebook Insights kerfluffle wasn't a bigger deal than what was reported. Last week, Facebook admitted to…
Resampling Data in Hadoop with RHadoop
On Revolution Analytics partner Cloudera's blog, Uri Laserson has posted an excellent guide to resampling from a large data set in…
