Author: Manasvi Bodke

Like the two sides of a coin, big data comes with its pros and cons too. Are you prepared to fight the five biggest risks of big data? Over the years, big data has been the hottest topic in the tech world. The evolution of big data has taken the world by storm; and with […]

First of all, to use a technical term: “no duh.” For almost any new technology, there’s typically a big differential between what the tech journalists and analysts are implying everybody’s doing with that technology and what…everybody’s doing with that technology. Second, while the context is that Gartner’s survey found “Just26 percent are already deploying, piloting, or […]

Here we talk a lot about the 4 V’s of Big Data: volume, variety, velocity, and veracity. There is one “V” that we stress the importance of over all the others—veracity. Data veracity is the one area that still has the potential for improvement and poses the biggest challenge when it comes to big data. With […]

Data types involved in Big Data analytics are many: structured, unstructured, geographic, real-time media, natural language, time series, event, network and linked. It is necessary here to distinguish between human-generated data and device-generated data since human data is often less trustworthy, noisy and unclean. A brief description of each type is given below.   Structured […]

When you look at the image below, what springs to mind? Would you have guessed that it is in fact made up of 100,000 photographs shared on Twitter in Los Angeles during the summer of 2013? This installation is one of several in the collection Instagram Cities by Damon Crockett, where photographs that were posted on Instagram, […]

Big data has applications in just about every industry – retail, healthcare, financial services, government. Any organization that can assimilate data to answer nagging questions about their operations can benefit from big data. All big data projects start with a viable use case. Here are four sample big data use cases for the manufacturing industry. […]

It’s hard to escape all the talk about big data. Armed with actionable information, companies can more effectively and efficiently market to customers, design and manufacture products that meet specific needs, increase revenue, streamline operations, forecast more accurately, and even better manage inventory to hold the line on related costs. But can your business afford to […]

Big data in the education sector is likely to offer numerous benefits to students and educational institutions. It will revolutionize the way we manage education, in significant ways. Big data in the education sector offers unprecedented opportunities for educators to reach out and instruct students in new ways. It will give them a deeper understanding […]

Predictive analytics and machine learning in healthcare are rapidly becoming some of the most-discussed, perhaps most-hyped topics in healthcare analytics. Machine learning is a well-studied discipline with a long history of success in many industries. Healthcare can learn valuable lessons from this previous success to jump start the utility of predictive analytics for improving patient care, chronic disease management, hospital […]

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary data storage system used by Hadoop applications. It employs a NameNode and DataNode architecture to implement a distributed file system that provides high-performance access to data across highly scalable Hadoop clusters. How HDFS works HDFS supports the rapid transfer of data between compute nodes. At its outset, it was closely coupled […]