Even the smallest businesses and newest startups may be able to benefit from the superior insight and real-time understanding that big data may be able to provide. Data analytics is fast becoming a resource that small businesses can no longer afford to overlook, one that may be used in order to improve customer relations, enhance operational efficiency or to gauge the … [Read more...] about Why Big Data Has a Lot to Offer for Small Businesses
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How Big Data is Helping Your Commute to Be Safer and Faster
Driving is a part of everyone's life and you probably do it every day. It can be fun driving on a road trip but it can be a nightmare when heading to work. The fact that everyone is in a hurry to go to work means everyone is on the road at the same time. You have to admit, a traffic jam is one of the most annoying things you can come across on your journey. Well, fortunately, … [Read more...] about How Big Data is Helping Your Commute to Be Safer and Faster
How Small Businesses Can Tame the Power of Big Data
Big data is one of the most powerful tools for large companies. Contrary to popular belief, it is also applicable for smaller companies that want to manage massive amounts of data. With the right approach, you can use big data to your advantage, even if you are a smaller firm. Scope The sheer scope of big data is often intimidating for little companies. It is important to get … [Read more...] about How Small Businesses Can Tame the Power of Big Data
Apache Spark – A Basic Understanding
Before diving deep into how Apache Spark works, lets understand the jargon of Apache Spark Job: A piece of code which reads some input from HDFS or local, performs some computation on the data and writes some output data. Stages: Jobs are divided into stages. Stages are classified as a Map or reduce stages (Its easier to understand if you have worked on Hadoop and want to … [Read more...] about Apache Spark – A Basic Understanding
How Data Analytics is Being Leveraged by Professional Sports
In the age of Big Data, the term analytics gets tossed around a lot, especially in the world of sports. Analytics insights from sports range from the truly strange, such as the fact the pro tennis player who grunts the most effectively tends to win, to the genuinely game-changing, such as NBA teams changing their season long approach to player rest. If so many sports are seen … [Read more...] about How Data Analytics is Being Leveraged by Professional Sports
