Category: Education

June 30, 2016

Alteryx, Inc., the leader in self-service data analytics, announced today new capabilities in its Alteryx Analytics platform that allow data analysts of all skill levels to deliver powerful predictive insights, harness big data analytic performance, and improve analytic understanding using […]

June 29, 2016

Looker, the company that is powering data-driven businesses, today released substantial enhancements to Powered by Looker, one of the flagship capabilities available on the Looker Data Platform. The company introduced a suite of new application building tools that make it […]

June 28, 2016

Columbia University’s Data Science education programs are fairly new, with the Data Science Institute founded in 2012. The program seeks to take an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on more than 200 faculty from the nine schools that make up the university. […]

June 28, 2016

Access to high-quality training data is critical for startups that use machine learning as the core technology of their business. While many algorithms and software tools are open sourced and shared across the research community, good datasets are usually proprietary […]

June 24, 2016

According to Gartner, “through 2018, 80 percent of data lakes will not include effective metadata management capabilities, making them inefficient.” Tools within the Apache Spark ecosystem, such as SparkSQL, MlLib, and GraphX, are making ingesting, transforming, and querying data easier, […]

June 21, 2016

Today data scientists can be deprived of their strengths when moving to larger datasets – datasets in the realm of ‘big data’ – because large scale tools are too inflexible to support the data science style of working. Michael Stonebreaker, […]

June 17, 2016

Plexistor and Couchbase released results of benchmarking the new Couchbase Server 4.5 as a cluster of containers leveraging Plexistor’s Software Defined Memory (SDM). The results showed that Plexistor’s SDM sped up the Couchbase Server 4.5 throughput and latency allowing Couchbase […]

June 8, 2016

Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of open source Apache Spark, at Spark Summit […]

June 7, 2016

Building on its $300 million investment in Apache Spark a year ago, IBM is announcing new initiatives including an environment where data scientists can learn, create and collaborate with peers using whatever data science language they prefer, donation of new […]

June 7, 2016

Modern enterprises have an immense responsibility to harness ever-evolving data technologies to get maximum business benefits. However, with new technological capabilities promising more value-added outcomes, global organizations face a challenge to recruit the most qualified Data Scientists and Data Analysts […]

June 2, 2016

It’s time for the enterprise to seize the opportunity to build new applications and processes based on a synthesis of meaningful data brought together from diverse systems. Doing so requires some key things, though, starting with a database platform that […]

June 1, 2016

A decade ago, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that open source tools and platforms would become pervasive in IT. Fast-forward to today, and that prediction has come true, with profound implications for the employment market… In particular, open source […]

May 31, 2016

Database firm EnterpriseDB (EDB) is hoping to encourage enterprises users to pick up its distribution of the Postgres open source database by tailoring a new release for corporate users. One of the new features sees it integrate with other kinds […]

May 31, 2016

Conversations about analytics and data processing have shifted notably in my career. Even 15 years ago, enterprise data warehouse discussions focused on processing speed and performance. Today, the bottlenecks have moved. Performance is still important, yes, but no longer the […]

May 24, 2016

The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is one of the oldest Data Science degrees in the country. The program began in 2007, with the school’s Institute for Advanced Analytics focused on supporting the […]

May 16, 2016

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced the immediate availability of Apache Spark 1.6.1 on the MapR Converged Data Platform making it the eighth release of the full Spark stack available to MapR customers. […]

May 2, 2016

The onslaught of big data, with its high data volumes and diverse data structures, has given rise to new technologies in the form of NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark and the like. NoSQL, particularly, calls for changes in established data modeling techniques. […]

April 25, 2016

Machine learning has come of age in public health reporting according to researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. They have found that existing algorithms and open source machine […]

April 7, 2016

According to a new article, “MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry’s only Converged Data Platform, today announced the availability of Apache Drill 1.6 as the unified SQL layer for the MapR Converged Data Platform via tighter integration with MapR-DB. […]

April 6, 2016

Michael Upchurch writes in ITProPortal, “Today, new, powerful data warehouse systems using in-database analytics can quickly ingest and process big data wherever it resides. What’s more, business users can now sift through data using familiar reporting tools, gaining easy access […]