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5 Steps to Start Data Mining
I have a great guest blog on the basics of data mining over at SciTech Connect: 5 Steps to Start Data Mining – SciTech Connect | SciTech Connect.
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Getting Data into Hadoop in real-time
Moving data between databases is hard. Without ever intending it, I seem to have spent a lifetime working on solutions for getting data into and out of databases, but more frequently between. In fact, my first job out of university was migrating data from BRS/Text, a free-text database (probably what we would call a NoSQL)…
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Moving to MapReduce 2 with YARN
Moving to MapReduce 2 with YARN I have a guest blog post over on the Safari Books Online blog looking at the changes in the YARN system for managing Hadoop jobs.
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Process complex text for information mining
My latest article on data mining text information is now available: Text — an everyday component of nearly all social interaction, social networks, and social sites — is difficult to process. Even the basic task of picking out specific words, phrases, or ideas is challenging. String searches and regex tools don\’t suffice. But the Annotation…
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Building flexible apps from big data sources
My article on how to build flexible apps on top of the BigInsights platform has been published. This demonstrates a cool way to combine some client-end JavaScript and existing technologies to build a Big Data query interface without developing a specialised application for the purpose. It’s no secret that a significant proportion of the needs…
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Process big data with Big SQL in InfoSphere BigInsights
The ability to write an SQL statement against your Big Data stored in Hadoop provides some much needed flexibility. Sure, using Hive or HBase you can perform some of those operations, but there are other alternatives that may suit your needs better, such as the Big SQL utility. My latest article on this tool is…
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SQL to Hadoop and back again, Part 3: Direct transfer and live data exchange
The third, and final article in my series on migrating data to and from Hadoop and SQL databases is now available: Big data is a term that has been used regularly now for almost a decade, and it — along with technologies like NoSQL — are seen as the replacements for the long-successful RDBMS solutions…
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SQL to Hadoop and back again, Part 2: Leveraging HBase and Hive
The second article in a series covering Big Data and SQL interaction is available now: “Big data” is a term that has been used regularly now for almost a decade, and it — along with technologies like NoSQL — are seen as the replacements for the long-successful RDBMS solutions that use SQL. Today, DB2®, Oracle,…