One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are not directly comparable products, they both have many of the same uses. To shed some light
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Workforce planning, once a tool for only the most mature human resources organizations, is going mainstream — though not at the clip many say is needed to keep up with market forces. Businesses of all sizes, from...
Can body cam software flag problematic officer behavior? There are few things sexier to the corporate world than big data algorithms. As us plebes continue to upload more finely detailed pictures of ourselves online—with much of that...
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Senior executives are increasingly demanding that the talent development function provide actionable insights for driving better business results through targeted improvements in the management and development of people. Talent analytics is increasingly expected go far beyond traditional...
These unfounded beliefs about budget skills, technology, and technology fit can lead you astray. Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As...
Machine learning — supervised and unsupervised — tracks data patterns that help businesses build improved predictive models and make smarter IT decisions. Our data center machines, due to all the information we feed them, are getting smarter....
It’s the disrupter behind the disruptors and the decade’s ‘sexiest’ industry. But data science is more than a buzzword. From stock trading to facial recognition, data science is behind the wheel of countless solutions once driven by...
Data science is a powerful tool for business. With a number of practical uses and successful use cases in companies from Amazon to P&G, it’s hard deny the impact of data science methodologies on the bottom line. ...
