Tag Archives: big data

Big Data Analytics

Posted on October 22, 2018 by

How large is your analytics system? Do you have more than one machine for analytics? Do you have a cluster of machines that run Hadoop in a YARN cluster to analyze your data? Are there hundreds, or even thousands, of … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy Processing

Posted on July 7, 2016 by

This is really interesting. A computer chip that doesn’t exactly perform mathematical calculations correctly. That sounds crazy, and in some cases it is. Most of us want math to be exact, and work perfectly every time when we run calculations. … Continue reading →

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More and More Data Growth

Posted on June 9, 2016 by

I wrote an editorial a few years ago about a Zettabyte (ZB) of data being created in a year in the world. This was 2012, and those seemed like crazy predictions. At the time I was doing some work with full text … Continue reading →

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Getting Big Data

Posted on February 26, 2016 by

Many of us work with data every day. Often we do so at work, but plenty of us also look at data outside of our jobs. The recent Power BI Report contest shows that our colleagues look at all sorts of different … Continue reading →

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