Originally created at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” designed for large-scale data processing. It works with cluster computing platforms ...

Introduction to Big Data (DT102) provides the fundamentals needed to allow organizations to turn data into actionable information. Starting with an overview of big data, which covers key enterprise ...

Big data and analytics are, year in and year out, a mainstay of the health IT conference and HIMSS18 will not disappoint. Hospital and IT professionals will find a range of education sessions for ...

The pace that companies generate and collect data shows no signs of slowing down. These businesses are then pouring all of this data into data lakes in the hopes of eventually getting some business ...

Companies today are nearly overrun with massive amounts of data about their customers, suppliers, and even potential markets thanks to evolving digital technologies. While it’s commonly said that ...

Big data can help make sense of the information gathered, such as retention cost, average transaction value and even customer satisfaction. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their ...

Big data is big business, particularly in the government sector. According to market researchers at IDC, worldwide spending on big data and business analytics solutions grew 10.1% in 2021 to total an ...

The job of data scientist — the quintessential big data job, and the job that was just voted the best job in America for 2016 — is at risk. Data scientists have been called “unicorns” because finding ...