Recently, I came across with an interesting book on the statistics which has a narration of Ugly Duckling story and correlation of this story with today's DATA or rather BIG DATA ANALYTICS world. This story originally from famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen

Story goes like this... 

The duckling was a big ugly grey bird, so ugly that even a dog would not bite him. The poor duckling…

I am Back ! Yes, I am back (on the track) on my learning track. Sometime, it is really necessary to take a break and introspect why do we learn, before learning.  Ah ! it was 9 months safe refuge to learn how Big Data & Analytics can contribute to Data Product.

Data strategy has always been expected to be revenue generation. As Big data and Hadoop entering into the enterprise data strategy it is also expected from big data infrastructure to be revenue addition.…

The term "Data Science" has been evolving not only as a niche skill but as a niche process as well. It is interesting to study "how" the Big data analytics/Data Science/Analytics can be efficiently implemented into the enterprise. So, along with my typical study of analytics viz. Big data analytics I have been also exploring the methodologies to bring the term "Data Science" into mainstream of existing enterprise data analysis, which we conventionally know as "Datawarehouse & BI". This…

Few days back i have attended a good webinar conducted by Metascale on topic “Are You Still Moving Data? Is ETL Still Relevant in the Era of Hadoop?” This post is targeting this webinar.

In summary, this webinar had nicely explained about how enterprise can use Hadoop as a data hub along with the existing Datawarehouse set up. “Hadoop as a Data Hub” this line itself raised lot of questions in my…

Data analysis echo system has grown all the way from SQL's to NoSQL and from Excel analysis to Visualization. Today, we are in scarceness of the resources to process ALL (You better understand what i mean by ALL) kind of data that is coming to enterprise. Data goes through profiling, formatting, munging or cleansing, pruning, transformation steps to analytics and predictive modeling. Interestingly, there is no one tool proved to be an effective solution to run…