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Big Data Analytics: Fierce Competition Among Cloud-Based Analytics Tools

By Dick Weisinger

New cloud tools for analyzing and visualizing Big Data are being released almost weekly by the major cloud vendors.  For example, Google recently announced the launch of Cloud Datalab.  AWS has Amazon QuickSight, and SAP, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce have similar

Big Data and Data Analysis: Data Quality Can Be the Most Difficult Challenge When Developing Big Data Apps

By Dick Weisinger

Evans Data Corporation recently released an extensive study on Big Data and Advanced Analytics.  The results were summarized on Forbes by Louis Columbus. Which industries are using big data and data analytics? 18 percent – Software industry 11.6 percent – Manufacturing

Big Data: Gartner: Half of Ethics Violations Will be From Improper use of Analytics by 2018

By Dick Weisinger

Algorithmic-based decision making is increasingly being deployed, but at least at this point in time, the decision to roll out and rely primarily on data analytic results may not be the right one.  A second point is that improper interpretation

Algorithmic Economy: Powering the Machine-to-Machine Age Economic Revolution

By Dick Weisinger

As technology advances, we are becoming increasingly dependent on algorithms for everything in our lives.  Algorithms that can solve our daily problems and tasks will do things like drive vehicles, control drone flight, and order supplies when they run low.  Algorithms

Fast Data: Cloudera Kudu Enables Fast Analytics and Efficient Updates

By Dick Weisinger

First there was Big Data and Hadoop, and now there is Fast Data. Cloudera’s new open source project Kudu offers fast analytics with efficient updates, combining the best of Hadoop’s HDFS and HBase.  The combination of the two enables the