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Bossies 2018: The Best of Open Source Software Awards
InfoWorld recognizes the leading open source projects for software development, cloud computing, big data, and machine learning
The best open source software for data storage and analytics
InfoWorld’s 2018 Best of Open Source Software Award winners in databases and data analytics
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Machine learning megaguide: Amazon, Microsoft, Databricks, Google, HPE, IBM
Download InfoWorld's massive roundup of Amazon, Microsoft, Databricks, Google, HPE, and IBM machine learning toolkits
What is a data lake? Flexible big data management explained
A data lake can be a much more flexible repository than a data warehouse. Or it can be a trash dump that grows and grows
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Matei Zaharia, creator of the Apache Spark project, on the big data framework | True Technologist Ep 2
In this episode of True Technologist, host Eric Knorr talks with Matei Zaharia, chief technologist at Databricks and an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, about the Apache Spark and Apache Mesos projects
Why there are no shortcuts to machine learning
As long as companies understand that good data science takes time in an enterprise, and give these people room to learn and grow, they won’t need shortcuts
Why we lose out if we leave everything to algorithms
If we trust a measurement system wholly to data and algorithms, will it inevitably be gamed by the humans it measures?
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Public cloud megaguide: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Joyent compared
The top five public clouds pile on the services and options, while adding unique twists
How to build stateful streaming applications with Apache Flink
Take advantage of Flink’s DataStream API, ProcessFunctions, and SQL support to build event-driven or streaming analytics applications
Introducing BigQuery ML for building predictive models with SQL
Google’s beta extension performs linear regression forecasting and binary logistic classification in the BigQuery data warehouse
Big data: enabling new approaches to IT infrastructure security
Big data technologies and advanced analytics, including AI, are promising a way to get ahead of cyber threats
3 big data platforms look beyond Hadoop
Learn how the Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR data platforms are evolving to meet the demands for real-time analytics and machine learning
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Quick guide: Learn to crunch big data with R
Get started using the open source R programming language to do statistical computing and graphics on large data sets
Data lakes: Just a swamp without data governance and catalog
Most businesses’ data lakes are merely repositories of undefined data sets from multiples sources, resulting in data swamps
How to get real value from big data in the cloud
Cloud computing makes big data affordable, but few companies know how to actually take actual advantage of it
What is Julia? A fresh approach to numerical computing
A “no compromises” programming language for data scientists, Julia combines the ease of a dynamic language with the speed of a compiled language
In an age of fake news, is there really such a thing as fake data?
The pitfalls and benefits of using synthetic data to train AI algorithms
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Build an IoT analytics solution with big data tools
The Internet of things seems futuristic, but real systems are delivering real analytics value today. Here’s some real-world IoT advice from the field
It’s time we tapped APIs for business analytics
With so much information flowing through APIs, the API management system offers a central hub for business insight
9 Splunk alternatives for log analysis
Splunk may be the most famous way to make sense of mass quantities of log data, but it is far from the only player around
Human data is the future of information
That’s good for everyone, as it respects that data has become so important to people’s livelihood—their credit scores just as much their personalities—that it shouldn’t be treated differently than they would be treated
What is TensorFlow? The machine learning library explained
TensorFlow is a Python-friendly open source library for numerical computation that makes machine learning faster and easier
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