Analytics / Big Data
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Map Reduce is dead, long live Spark! That’s the impression I, and I think most people attending the conference, walked away with after Strata NY 2014. Most of the interesting presentations were centered on Spark. Only corporate IT presentations about “in progress hadoop implementations” were about Map Reduce. So who’s working on Spark? Cool startups…
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I had a chance to attend Strata in New York back in October. I had been wanting to attend Strata for a few years, but had not had a chance until now. A few impressions: (in the form of brief bullets) It’s huge! (Over 3,000 attendees) Very corporate! (A bit too corporate, too stuffy, seemed like legal departments censored…
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Introduction I recently wrapped up a BI/Data Warehouse implementation project where I was responsible for helping a rapidly expanding international e-commerce company replace their aging BI reporting tool with a new, more flexible solution. The old BI reporting tool was based on a “in-memory” reporting engine, was more of a “departmental solution” than an enterprise-grade…
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It has been over a year and half since I took the Cloudera Hadoop Developer Certification course and exam and posted my initial impressions of it on my blog. I have received more comments than I had expected, thank you for reading and sending me comments! There have been a few trends in the comments,…
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Just signed up for node.ph, on April 23rd 2012. Looking forward to learning more about this event-driven framework and how to apply to business challenges. Schedule of events includes Introduction to the event-driven I/O framework that is changing that way we think about developing web applications. Fully loaded Node! Lloyd Hilaiel will explain how to…
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Is Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop worth it? I just finished the Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop course, and passed the Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop exam. I am feeling good about passing the certification exam on the first try, but have some mixed feelings, primarily around: is it worth the course…
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Cloudera Hadoop Developer Training: First Impressions Just wrapped the first day of Cloudera Hadoop Developer Training… so far so good! Training lasts 4 days, with the option to take the Certification Exam within 30 days of course completion. Apparently the exam policy is changing in the next couple of months. Right now, the exam is…
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Heritage launched the $3 million Heritage Health Prize with one goal in mind: to develop a breakthrough algorithm that uses available patient data, including health records and claims data, to predict and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations. Heritage believes that incentivized competition – one that includes the involvement of those with passionate minds that don’t know what…
David Mantilla 