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Big Data Analytics: How It Works, Tools, and Real-Life Applications

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Big Data enjoys the hype around it and for a reason. But the understanding of the essence of Big Data and ways to analyze it is still blurred. This post will draw a full picture of what Big Data analytics is and how it works. Big Data and its main characteristics. Key Big Data characteristics.

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

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Depending on how you measure it, the answer will be 11 million newspaper pages or… just one Hadoop cluster and one tech specialist who can move 4 terabytes of textual data to a new location in 24 hours. Developed in 2006 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella to run the web crawler Apache Nutch, it has become a standard for Big Data analytics.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

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Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Analytics in logistics and transportation.

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ETL vs ELT: Key Differences Everyone Must Know

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From the late 1980s, when data warehouses came into view, and up to the mid-2000s, ETL was the main method used in creating data warehouses to support business intelligence (BI). As data keeps growing in volumes and types, the use of ETL becomes quite ineffective, costly, and time-consuming. What is ELT?

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

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IoT infrastructure contains several key layers, with an IoT platform acting as a bridge between physical world and business processes. These hardware components cache and preprocess real-time data, reducing the burden on central storages and main processors. Transport layer: networks and gateways. How an IoT system works.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

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During shipment, goods are carried using different types of transport: trucks, cranes, forklifts, trains, ships, etc. What’s more, the goods come in different sizes and shapes and have different transportation requirements. Then came standardized intermodal containers that revolutionized the transportation industry. Scalability.

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The Modern Data Stack: What It Is, How It Works, Use Cases, and Ways to Implement

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In recent years, cloud-based data warehouses have revolutionized data processing with their advanced massively parallel processing (MPP) capabilities and SQL support. This development has paved the way for a suite of cloud-native data tools that are user-friendly, scalable, and affordable. What is a modern data stack?

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