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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

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More specifically: Descriptive analytics uses historical and current data from multiple sources to describe the present state, or a specified historical state, by identifying trends and patterns. In business analytics, this is the purview of business intelligence (BI). Data analytics vs. business analytics.

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Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014 for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

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It it he analyzes the Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science. We update our analysis of Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science (Dec 2013) and find several interesting trends. Data Scientists: 114%.

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Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho

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We previously wrote about the Pentaho Big Data Blueprints series, which include design packages of use to enterprise architects and other technologists seeking operational concepts and repeatable designs. Save data costs and boost analytics performance. An intuitive graphical, no-coding big data integration.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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Successfully deploying Hadoop as a core component or enterprise data hub within a symbiotic and interconnected big data ecosystem; integrating with existing relational data warehouse(s), data mart(s), and analytic systems, and supporting a wide range of user groups with different needs, skill sets, and workloads.

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Where to Learn Deep Learning – Courses, Tutorials, Software

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Many winning entries in recent Kaggle Data Science competitions have used Deep Learning. The term “deep learning” refers to the method of training multi-layered neural networks, and became popular after papers by Geoffrey Hinton and his co-workers which showed a fast way to train such networks.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

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Successfully deploying Hadoop as a core component or enterprise data hub within a symbiotic and interconnected big data ecosystem; integrating with existing relational data warehouse(s), data mart(s), and analytic systems, and supporting a wide range of user groups with different needs, skill sets, and workloads.

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Beyond Cool!

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

In my last blog post I commented on Hitachi Vantara’s selection as one of the “ Coolest Business Analytics vendors” by CRN, Computer Reseller News, and expanded on Hitachi Vantara’s business analytics capabilities. In this post I will be expanding on how we address the rest of the big data pyramid.