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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Last week I had the opportunity to attend a Big Data round table discussion organized by JNK Securities, a broker-dealer based in NY w/ offices in DC. The attendees seemed to be evenly split between technologists/practitioners and finance professionals hoping to get a pulse on market trends. The conversation was moderated by Atul Chhabra, entrepreneur…
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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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My favorite quote in this interview: Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, recently said, “The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it” Unfortunately for those of us working on…
David Mantilla 