Insight. Applied.
Microsoft R Server is one of the leading options if you need to analyse big data using R.
To get you started EdX have a new (and free) course—Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R Server. It covers using the RevoScaleR package to build models and deploying them to Spark and SQL Server.
Alice Kaerast from the Sky Betting & Gaming Engineering team has produced a comprehensive list of big data news sources, including
There were a couple of podcasts in it that I’ve added to my listening list. High praise indeed.
I wish more sources would make their content available via RSS feeds. I really don’t want news and articles in my inbox. If I can’t add it to my newsreader I probably won’t read it.
FTI Consulting has published the results of its 2016 Retail Executive Survey.
100 C-suite executives were asked to rank 15 strategic priorities that they deemed to be “essential” or “high priority”. While big data was 14th on this list, it’s important to remember that all were considered to be at least “high priority”.
The story looks different when the executives were asked about their capability to execute these initiatives. The one that they are currently least able to execute is “big data”.
According to the survey, investment is aligned with strategic priority—even when there’s a capability surplus. It makes little sense to keep spending more on areas where you are over-qualified at the expense of key initiatives where capability is lacking.
If retailers don’t start investing more aggressively to address this shortfall Amazon will continue to eat their lunch.
Learning Tree have just published my article describing five of the main security challenges facing those who have, or are contemplating, big data deployments.
Microsoft have a new conference aimed at data scientists. The first Microsoft Data Science Summit will be held between 26-27 September 2016 in Atlanta GA.
The conference will cover
…the latest Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Open Source techniques and technologies.