I discovered set analysis with variables recently and thought it would be useful to share how I used them. Even if you know how to use them, check out the end of this blog where I use an extension to make variable changes more usable – your new best friend! This guide is applicable to…
The adoption of Hadoop by companies looking to improve their big data analytics capabilities is approaching a tipping point as more businesses become comfortable with the technology and understand what it can achieve. This is according to a new survey conducted by AtScale, in partnership with Cloudera, MapR and Tableau. It found that almost half…
If big data analytics deployments are to be effective, it’s important that everyone involved with them understands how to use them and what they must do to take advantage of the valuable pool of insight on offer. Therefore, one of the first and most crucial things to understand when dealing with data analytics is that…
One technology that’s sure to be at the centre of many organisations’ big data analytics programmes in the coming years is Hadoop. This open-source platform has been designed specifically to support the reliable storage and processing of very large data sets and its popularity is set to continue increasing rapidly in the coming years. But…