Introduction: Deriving meaningful information out of heap of data is the minimal requirement for any establishment today for its survival & sustenance. There are many terminologies and buzz words related to this area that blurs the meaning leaving people confused, such as Bigdata, Data Ware house (DWH), BI analytics, AI (Artificial…

Sales Forecasting: Science or Instinct?

Recently, we had talked about marketing automation, a digital transformation in the field that involved both artificial intelligence and machine learning. Even Natural Language Processing (NLP) has come a long way, enough to change the content marketing game. But while marketing has shifted to a digital…

Technology is known to shift landscapes, even change the game. We saw that when the internet exploded in scale and popularity, as computers became smarter, and the world goes through the digital transformation. An easy example is in traditional marketing, which now borders on the irrelevant, unable to hold a candle to its more modern counterparts.

Email, search…

Enterprises are learning fast about the relevance and use of AI and Cognitive Computing platforms. Before adopting AI and Cognitive Computing platforms, enterprises must focus on designing the right strategy for their business. A data-driven strategy is very important to derive the maximum benefit from the platform that will help to interpret data and provide accurate…

What is R Shiny App?

R shiny app is an interactive web interface. R shiny app has two components user interface object (UI.R) and server function (Server .R). The two components are passed as arguments to the shiny app function that creates a shiny app object. For more info on how to build Shiny…

1.Introduction to Big data and Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). It’s a virtualization framework.

It is like resource on demand whether it be storage, computing etc. Cloud follows pay per usage model. You need to pay the amount of resource you use.

This computing service by cloud charges…

Big Data Reviews this time actually connect to my previous article entitled "Big Data Analysis" related to the benefits of what can be obtained by the Big Data platform. Current technological advances are able to condition a company to collect or store data from multiple sources that are in one container along with the increasing amount of data. Furthermore, the capacity of the…

I want to know more about the Boltzmann and MCMC techniques from a very basic level in a layman's language. Can someone guide me?

Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in the zettabyte range there is a growing need for cheap, scalable, reliable and fast computing to process and make sense of all of this data. The underlying technology for Hadoop framework was created by Google as there…

Cloud computing has now been adapted on a larger scale than before and most of the organization are taking leverage of shared resources to minimize operational cost and maximize efficiency. With increase in adaption of cloud computing, the threats related to clouds also become a hot issue in 2014.  There were some cyber attacks on organizations like Target and Home Depot and…

The cloud, end-user, and data center are all evolving. In the recent past, the manner in which information has been processed and computed has totally changed. Today, with more consumerization and plenty of data centers, and cloud computing, it is important for administrators to adapt to the new demands. Because of the movement towards…

From episode 10 of my Naked Analyst Channel on YouTube.

I think I do - and it is the ‘appification’ of analytics. What I mean by this is the reduction of a complex analytic activity such as market segmentation, down to a single button on your computer interface. Very much like the…

The real estate industry has long operated according to its own traditions, but the availability of huge volumes of data is revolutionizing the way the industry works.…

New! Plotly lets you style interactive graphs in IPython. Then, you can share your Notebook or your Plotly graph. It's like having the NYTimes graphics department inside your IPython.

You can also get these Notebooks on the Plotly GitHub page. Visit Plot.ly to see more documentation. …

Let us start with some jargons and distill these into some meaningful things to be understood by us the only intelligent autonomous system in other words humans.

SaaS – Applications focused on end-users, used internet as a medium, e-mail, salesforce etc.

PaaS – Set of tools focused on developers, such as Ruby on Rails, Python, Eclipse, REST, SOAP, Oracle.

IaaS – Complete software and hardware solutions, VMware, Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Google Compute…

High Performance Computing (HPC) plus data science allows public and private organizations get…

In a recent post of mine I had mentioned about the partnership between MapR and Canonical towards an initiative to make Hadoop available with Ubuntu natively through Ubuntu Partner Archive. Since, the package has been released now, I thought of showing how to get it done. Trust me it's really cool to install Hadoop…

8 years ago not even Doug Cutting would have thought that the tool which he's naming after the name of his kid's soft toy would so soon become a rage and change the way people and organizations look at their data. Today Hadoop and BigData have almost become synonyms to each other. But Hadoop is not just Hadoop now. Over the time it has evolved…