Machine learning climbs atop Hadoop

Register Hadoop whisperer Concurrent has released a free tool for porting machine-learning models over to Hadoop. The Pattern tool lets you run machine-learning models on top of the Hadoop compute and storage framework via either exported Predictive Model … (more)

What it Takes to be a Big Data Analyst

CloudTimes While a big data scientist needs various capabilities and skills to analyze and mash up various data sources, a big data analyst on the other hand performs data analysis on a particular system only. In short, a big data analyst is some sort of an … (more)

A sensible approach to big data

Network World Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world’s data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social … (more)

Making Hadoop Elephants Drink From Silverlake

IT Jungle In last week’s issue, I talked generally about big data and the use of tools like the Hadoop big data muncher created by Yahoo to emulate the very early unstructured data processing and related file system created by Google to power its search engine. (more)