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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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12 data science certifications that will pay off

CIO

Whether you’re looking to earn a certification from an accredited university, gain experience as a new grad, hone vendor-specific skills, or demonstrate your knowledge of data analytics, the following certifications (presented in alphabetical order) will work for you. Check out our list of top big data and data analytics certifications.)

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Azure HDInsight gets its own Hadoop distro, as big data matures

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Several years ago, big data was at the height of its hype cycle and Hadoop was its poster child technology. Today, open source analytics are solidly part of the enterprise […].

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Baldor’s first-ever CIO sets the transformation agenda

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These planning tools are constantly transforming at the cutting edge using high performance computing, big data capabilities, and sophisticated intelligence,” Prouty notes. Instead, “accessing and training open-source models available on Hugging Face and customizing them with small data sets will enable greatest efficiencies,” he says.

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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

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A general LLM won’t be calibrated for that, but you can recalibrate it—a process known as fine-tuning—to your own data. Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. You really have to take what’s already there.

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Best Free and Open-Source Database Software

G2 Crowd Software

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Oracle released the first fully functional one in 1979, but today there are hundreds of proprietary and open-source options available.