My Data Analytics Lifecycle
My Data Analytics Lifecycle by Mario Vinasco, Data Scientist, Facebook. At Facebook, we routinely query the largest user database in the world; we have tables that record every single write to the social graph;...
Category: Big Data, Analytical Data Platforms, AI and Data Science
Three Properties of Topological Analysis
Three Properties of Topological Analysis By Gunnar Carlsson, Ayasdi Topology is the study of shape, but it is in fact the study of shape from a particular point of view. For example, it does not...
Why Topological Data Analysis Works
Why Topological Data Analysis Works By Gunnar Carlsson— Ayasdi, JANUARY 06, 2015 Topological data analysis has been very successful in discovering information in many large and complex data sets. In this post, I would like to...
Smooth Sailing for Data Lakes: Hadoop/Hive + Data Curation
Smooth Sailing for Data Lakes: Hadoop/Hive + Data Curation Tamr, FEATURED CONTENT, INSIGHTS Although we’ve debated the risks and benefits of data lakes in past posts, we understand the tremendous appeal for enterprises trying to...
The Evolution of ETL
The Evolution of ETL Tamr, FEATURED CONTENT, INSIGHTS Those of you who found your way to this blog are probably quite comfortable with the concept of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and its cousin ELT (Extract,...
TDA and Machine Learning: Better Together
TDA and Machine Learning: Better Together Ayasdi, White Paper. The New Data Analytics Dilemma Now more than ever, organizations rely upon their data to make informed decisions that can affect millions of lives and...
The Importance of Ethics in Data Science
The Importance of Ethics in Data Science By Steven Finlay. 8/2/2015. One of the biggest mistakes a data scientist can make is to assume that legal compliance with privacy and data protection laws mitigates...
The Last Mile of Big Data
The Last Mile of Big Data By Yuval Dvir , Strategy Lead for Google’s Global Operations. — February 2015 A lot has been said on Big Data as it continues to propagate into more functions, industries...
Agility – the Key to Driving Analytics Initiatives Forward
Agility – the Key to Driving Analytics Initiatives Forward By John K. Thompson – General Manager, Advanced Analytics, Dell Software — February 2015 In many ways, it can be said that data analytics has...
Time-series R package
Aaron Benz , Data Scientist Accenture, released (made publicly available) a time-series R package. -January 2015 It has a tutorial/walkthrough of why some might use it and what it offers (being able to plot time-series data –...