Record Setting Hadoop in the Cloud
M.C. Srivas, CTO, MapR Technologies AbstractWhen MapR was invited to provide Hadoop on Google Compute Engine, we ran a lot of mini tests on the virtualized hardware to figure out how to tune our...
Category: Big Data, Analytical Data Platforms, AI and Data Science
Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities
Roberto V. Zicari Abstract: In this presentation I review three current aspects related to Big Data: 1. The business perspective, 2. The Technology perspective, and 3. Big Data for social good. Presentation (89 pages)...
Big Data for Good.
Roger Barca, Laura Haas, Alon Halevy, Paul Miller, Roberto V. Zicari. June 5, 2012: Big Data for Good. A distinguished panel of experts discuss how Big Data can be used to create Social Capital....
Analyzing social media and structured data with InfoSphereBigInsights
Cynthia M. Saracco (saracco@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM AnshulDawra (adawra@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM Abstract: If you want to work with “big data” without writing code or scripts, you may want to look into...
Big Data for Good. A distinguished panel of experts discuss how Big Data can be used to create Social Capital
by Roberto V. Zicari, Editor ODBMS.org. June 5, 2012. Abstract: Every day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created. This data comes from digital pictures, videos, posts to social media sites, intelligent sensors, purchase...
Exploring your InfoSphereBigInsights cluster and sample applications
Cynthia M. Saracco (saracco@us.ibm.com), Senior Software Engineer, IBM PriyaBaliga, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM Stephen A. Brodsky, Distinguished Engineer, Architect, Big Data, IBM Abstract: If you’re looking to getting a quick start with “big data”...
User Behaviour Modelling in a Multi-Dimensional Environment for Personalization and Recommendation
Dr. Rakesh Rawat, Senior Research Assistant (Faculty of Science & Technology) CRC-Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia-4000 Author: Rakesh Rawat Abstract: The thesis discusses methods of modelling user’s Web server search log data for...
StreamCloud: An Elastic Parallel-Distributed Stream Processing Engine
Language: English Author: Vincenzo Massimiliano Gulisano Affiliation: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (U.P.M.) – Polytechnic University of Madrid Abstract: The thesis proposes a novel stream processing engine, StreamCloud, that overcomes limitations of existing centralized and...
Google Policy by the Numbers: “Big Data” for greater good
Data for sound policymaking from Google and friends LINK
Stratosphere: open-source system for Big Data Analytics
Stratosphere is an open-source system for Big Data Analytics that can be deployed in a local cluster using HDFS or in the Amazon cloud. The platform is jointly developed by TU Berlin, HU Berlin,...