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The Architecture of Apache Hadoop

Posted by deepsingularity in Architecture,Popular Blogs on May 09, 2016 | 19526 comments

Apache Hadoop platform is highly fault-tolerant for system disasters. At the core of Apache Hadoop, there are Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce that diffuse high-velocity streams of big data across multiple racks of low-priced servers. Hadoop Distributed File System does not have a limitation on the size of the file for data storage, write, and read operations. The limitation can only arise from the disk capacity of the machine, but not from HDFS. HDFS also...

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R has knives out for IBM SPSS and SAS

Posted by deepsingularity in Data analytics,Popular Blogs on May 09, 2016 | 15568 comments

Introduction ​ Originally Bell Labs has conceived the idea of language S in the mid-1970s to resolve data analytics and statistical conundrums. The purpose of the implementation project was to perform statistical analysis of their corporation leveraging the libraries of Fortran language. The invention of S language did not include the functions needed for statistical computing. In the late 1980s, the act of rebuilding the source code in language C reinvented S languag...

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Splunk in the Age of the Big Data

Posted by deepsingularity in Data analytics,Popular Blogs on May 09, 2016 | 13402 comments

Introduction Splunk big data tool works with both structured and unstructured data. Splunk covers a range of pre-configured rapid deployment packages for ease of big data content analysis and readily pluggable for corporations to slice and dice their visualization and turn the data into valuable decision-making actionable insights for achieving operational excellence in business intelligence competency centers. Similar to Tableau and QlicView, Splunk has powerful search...

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Machine Intelligent Economy with Tableau

Posted by deepsingularity in Data analytics on May 09, 2016 | 30922 comments

Tableau Tableau a research project at Stanford University for Department of Defense turned into a commercial big data visualization product (Stolte, 2015). A string of products from Tableau suit different consumers. An individual version of Tableau Desktop is offered for home computing desktops. Tableau provides several innovative capabilities for being a business intelligence platform. Corporations can leverage Tableau Server that provides accelerated pace, mobility ...

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