The internet has long been a consummate environment for collecting immense amounts of data from large swathes of the population. With the increased use of cookies and other data mining tools, the internet is, essentially, a bottomless trove of useful data. This…

The SparklyR package from RStudio provides a high-level interface to Spark from R. This means you can create R objects that point to data frames stored in the Spark cluster and apply some familiar R paradigms (like dplyr) to the data, all the while leveraging…

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Data is the critical resource of our age, that is why today’s data strategy encompasses far more than how to store it. Learn what to expect from data strategy trends in 2018 and why you need to act now to get better results and outperform your competitors.

The BigDataEurope (BDE) project came to a close at the end of 2017 with a number of technical results to show after three years of development and pilot testing. A key outcome of the project was the Big Data Integrator Platform(BDI), which provides an integrated…

When users talk about the features they require of their BI tools when working with big data, they typically end up describing their requirements in terms of two overarching themes relating to high-level analytical techniques, or modes of analysis. These…

In the age of digital transformation, how do you take the essence of an historic, premium department store and allow its legacy to permeate the entire customer experience?

I am compiling a list of leading data providers. This list is continuously expanding. If your favorite data providers are not included he...