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Identifying budding big data talent in your company

O'Reilly Media - Data

Big data is often called one of the most important skill sets in the 21st century, and it’s experiencing enormous demand in the job market. Hiring data scientists and other big data professionals is a major challenge for large enterprises, leading many to shift their efforts to training existing staff.

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

Unlike that energy company, many organizations have yet to feel an urgency to capitalize on the value of their vast reservoirs of unstructured data. After all, we in the information management and technology industry have talked at length about unstructured data since “Big Data” was big news more than a decade ago.

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Big Data in Healthcare: Sources and Real-World Applications

Altexsoft

In this article, we will explain the concept and usage of Big Data in the healthcare industry and talk about its sources, applications, and implementation challenges. What is Big Data and its sources in healthcare? So, what is Big Data, and what actually makes it Big? Let’s see where it can come from.

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7 Free Google Cloud Training Resources

ParkMyCloud

If you’re looking to break into the cloud computing space, or just continue growing your skills and knowledge, there are an abundance of resources out there to help you get started, including free Google Cloud training. For free, hands-on training there’s no better place to start than with Google Cloud Platform itself. .

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Big Data & AI News | Google Cloud Next 19 | Day Two Recap

Linux Academy

Joe Lowery here, Google Cloud Training Architect, bringing you the news from the Day 2 Keynote at the Google Cloud Next ’19 conference in San Francisco. In fact, much of the big push in the first two days here was on the enterprise, with big name after big name showing up as Google Cloud partners. Cloud Data Fusion.

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The Good and the Bad of Hadoop Big Data Framework

Altexsoft

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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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

Altexsoft

Hadoop and Spark are the two most popular platforms for Big Data processing. They both enable you to deal with huge collections of data no matter its format — from Excel tables to user feedback on websites to images and video files. Which Big Data tasks does Spark solve most effectively? How does it work?