Metrics are vital to any management process; they not only quantify activity, but can define the variation between what is observed and what is desired. Technical Usage MetricsMany of the …
Big Data – Readiness and Risk Assessment
As with any development project, implementation of a Big Data or Data Science initiative should align with real business needs. Assess organizational readiness in relation to critical success factors: Business …
Big Data – Visualization Tools
Traditional tools in data visualization have both a data and a graphical component. Advanced visualization and discovery tools use in-memory architecture to allow users to interact with the data. Patterns …
Big Data – Distributed File-Based Databases
Distributed file-based solutions technologies, such as the open source Hadoop, are an inexpensive way to store large amounts of data in different formats. Hadoop stores files of any type – …
Big Data – Activities
Define Big Data Strategy and Business Needs An organization’s Big Data strategy needs to be aligned with and support its overall business strategy and business requirements and be part of …
Big Data Characterized in terms of V’s
Volume: Refers to the amount of data. Big Data often has thousands of entities or elements in billions of records. Velocity: Refers to the speed at which data is captured, …
Big Data – Apache Hadoop – A Glance
Apache Hadoop is a collection of open source framework that is used to efficiently store and process big datasets in a distributed computing environment, ranging in size from gigabytes to …