Presentation Introduction Predictive Analytics is translating data into information that is necessary for business owners to make informed decisions and investments. It is the difference between running business on a hunch or intuition versus looking at collected data and revealing what’s to come before it actually happens. It leads to better decision making by looking […]
I’m sharing my brief presentation about Big Data Analytics. Presentation is available here (also to download): http://www.slideshare.net/matoushavlena/big-data-analytics-utc
I participated in an IBM’s project Students for a Smarter Planet and this was my innovative idea: Original prezi presentation is available here: http://prezi.com/yx6a33lvorwq/flexible-appointments-students-for-a-smarter-planet-2013/
Hadoop consists of two major components: Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce. HDFS is a distributed, scalable, Java-based file system that allows to store large volumes of unstructured data. MapReduce, which is covered in the next chapter, is a framework for performing calculations on the data stored in HDFS. Since Hadoop is a system running […]
What is Hadoop? Hadoop is an open source project that offers a platform to work with Big Data and helps to overcome volume and variety challenges . From volume perspective it allows to process, store and analyze massive amounts of data. From variety perspective it allows to work with mixture of structured and unstructured data, which […]
Since I’m building my expertise in Big Data Analytics, I decided to install BigInsights on my computer (into virtualized environment). IBM InfoSphere BigInsights brings the power of Hadoop to the enterprise. Apache Hadoop is the open source software framework, used to reliably managing large volumes of structured and unstructured data. BigInsights Basic Edition is available for […]
“Early analytics adopters are extending their leadership. If you want to lead, you have to know analytics, and if you want to be on the forefront of analytics, you have to put your arms around Big Data.” [13] Due to Big Data analytics, companies are able to gain a more complete understanding of their business, customers, […]
Here are some TED talks I like the most and that inspired me a lot. Take a few minutes of your time, it’s worthy of watching! Susan Cain: The power of introverts Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation Steve Jobs: […]
What is Big Data? Today, information technology is producing more and more data. According to IBM [12], every day we create 2.5 quintillion (2.5 x 1018) bytes of data and this rapid growth brings new challenges to data analytics. Due to the lower cost of storage and other technologies more and more companies can afford to […]
What is Consulting? Consulting is when you give an advice to someone who is faced with a choice. It’s when you don’t have any direct control over people but the ability to influence their decisions. Consultant’s objective is to achieve some kind of change that result in people or organizations managing themselves differently. This objective […]