After a busy November at Big Data London and working with various clients I’ve had a few days to catch up with some reading as I think about where to focus our analytics research in 2018. I read an interesting blog article by Dan Graham at Teradata pointing out some of the pitfalls of benchmarking…
Apache Hadoop is an open source software offering that supports the storage and processing of large data sets across a number of computers. My Dzone article describes how a number of Hadoop distributions sprang up to simplify the process of deploying and managing Hadoop, but how do you decide which distribution is right for you? Requirements…
We recently spoke at Big Data London where our focus was about being able to perform BI on Hadoop using some bus data from Transport for London (TfL). After the talk, there was some interest in the maths behind what we presented and whilst not overly complicated (yet), a blog entry with more explanations seemed…