Big data as a service (BDaaS) solutions: comparing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
What is Big Data as a Service (BDaaS)?
Thanks to the increased adoption of cloud infrastructures, processing, storing, and analyzing huge amounts of data has...
Packt teams up with Humble Bundle again to bring readers big data content
Packt has teamed up with Humble Bundle once again to bring readers an incredible range of content - while also supporting some incredible causes.
This...
Time series modeling: What is it, Why it matters and How it’s used
A series can be defined as a number of events, objects, or people of a similar or related kind coming one after another; if...
Budget and Demand Forecasting using Markov model in SAS [Tutorial]
Budget and demand forecasting are important aspects of any finance team. Budget forecasting is the outcome, and demand forecasting is one of its components.
In...
Apache Flink version 1.6.0 released!
The Apache Flink community released its 1.6.0 version yesterday. Apache Flink 1.6.0 release is the seventh major release in the 1.x.y series. This Flink...
Apache Kafka 2.0.0 has just been released
Apache Kafka, the open source distributed data streaming software, has just hit version 2.0.0. With Kafka becoming a vital component in the (big) data...
Setting up Apache Druid in Hadoop for Data visualizations [Tutorial]
Apache Druid is a distributed, high-performance columnar store. Druid allows us to store both real-time and historical data that is time series in nature....
Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.2!
Databricks announces Databricks Runtime 4.2 with numerous updates and added components on Spark internals, Databricks Delta and improvisions to its previous version.
The databricks runtime...
Build Hadoop clusters using Google Cloud Platform [Tutorial]
Cloud computing has transformed the way individuals and organizations access and manage their servers and applications on the internet. Before Cloud computing, everyone used...
Facebook is investigating data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon over misuse of data
Facebook has suspended Boston-based data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon following concerns that the company has misused data. The decision was made after the Wall...
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Facebook shares update on last week’s takedowns of accounts involved in...
Yesterday, Facebook shared the findings and takedowns of its last week’s investigation regarding inauthentic coordinated behavior. In order to accomplish these takedowns, they worked...
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