[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog.] When an interesting piece of big data technology gets introduced, early1 adopters tend to focus on technical features and capabilities. Applications get built as companies develop confidence that it’s reliable and that it really scales to large data volumes. That seems to be whereContinue reading “How companies are using Spark”
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Simplifying interactive, realtime, and advanced analytics
[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Strata blog and Forbes.] Here are a few observations based on conversations I had during the just concluded Strata NYC conference. Interactive query analysis on Hadoop remains a hot area A recent O’Reilly survey confirmed SQL is an important skill for data scientists. A year afterContinue reading “Simplifying interactive, realtime, and advanced analytics”