Category Archives: Hadoop

2013 Data Science Salary Survey: Open source tools correlate with higher salary

Posted on January 18, 2014 by

“In our report, 2013 Data Science Salary Survey, we make our own data-driven contribution to the conversation. We collected a survey from attendees of the Strata Conference in New York and Santa Clara, California, about tool usage and salary… What … Continue reading →

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Hadoop Inventor Doug Cutting on the Future of Data (Video)

Posted on November 6, 2013 by

Some facts about data: Hardware gets cheaper Data is valuabe Open source wins Hadoop gets better Hadoop is general Hadoop dominates big data (de facto operating system for big data) Even transactions are possible on Hadoop The future of data … Continue reading →

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Edd Dumbill on the Internet of Things and Data Science

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

Edd Dumbill, VP Strategy, Silicon Valley Data Science: “There’s cultural change, we see that with data analytics. Tools are half of the problem, culture is the other.”

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Hadoop 0.1

Posted on June 6, 2013 by

CNBC: The name [Hadoop] is a homey story going back 10 years—into the realm of a toddler’s experimentation with old-fashioned human language. Cutting’s son, then 2, was just beginning to talk and called his beloved stuffed yellow elephant “Hadoop” (with … Continue reading →

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Explaining Big Data by ExplainingComputers (Video)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by
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Hadoop MapReduce Example – How good are a city’s farmer’s markets?

Posted on December 24, 2012 by
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LucidWorks: Bringing Search to Big Data

Posted on October 7, 2012 by

“Search is the UI for data today,” Grant Ingersoll, Chief Scientist for LucidWorks, told the audience at the recent IE big data conference in Boston. Anyone on the Internet is familiar with the search box and can find the data they are looking … Continue reading →

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