More than anything else, IBM is famous for reinventing itself. International Business Machines Corp., being established more than 100 years ago, is one of the oldest and most successful IT companies. But the company finds itself in hard times, its stock prices are dropping, core business is weakening, and innovation takes the second place after […]
I had a chance to work on a predictive analytics project for a US car manufacturer XXX (I will keep name of the company confidential). The goal of the project was to evaluate the feasibility to use Big Data analysis solutions for manufacturing to solve different operational needs. The objective was to determine a business […]
BigSheets is a spreadsheet-style tool for business analysts provided with IBM InfoSphere BigInsights, a platform based on the open source Apache Hadoop project. BigSheets enables non-programmers to iteratively explore, manipulate, and visualize data stored in your distributed file system. This article demonstrates how to analyze and visualize data we collected from Twitter in my previous […]
This article takes you through an example how to query, transform and visualize data from social media. We are going to collect tweets from twitter, store them in HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system) and use JAQL and Java MapReduce application to manipulate and transform the data. Finally, we will visualize the results using a spreadsheet-style […]
Jaql is one of the languages that helps to abstract complexities of MapReduce programming framework within Hadoop. It’s a loosely typed functional language with lazy evaluation (it means that Jaql functions are not materialized until they are needed). Jaql’s data model is based on JSON Query Language, it’s a fully expressive programming language (compared to […]
InfoSphere Streams radically extends the state-of-the-art in big data processing; it’s a high-performance computing platform that allows users to develop and reuse applications to rapidly ingest, analyze, & correlate information as it arrives from thousands of real-time sources. You can download the 90-day trial version here. Here is the list of products I used in […]
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 […]
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, […]
Recently, I did a school project together with my schoolmate about Business Intelligence in IBM Cognos and I decided to share our findings. First of all, I will very briefly describe Cognos BI solution, then I will share whole presentation we presented as a final outcome. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is part of the IBM […]