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Easy Guide to Bulk Replace Values in Power BI or Power Query
Introduction If you are a Power BI user, you probably know that one of the greatest features of the tool is the Power Query Editor. The Power Query Editor lets you wrangle, alter, shape, transform, adjust, and modify your data prior to loading it into Power BI. The...
read moreWhen Should You Hire a Data Science Consulting Firm Versus Building an Internal Team?
As the trend in data science and big data analytics accelerates, organizations are trying to determine whether they should hire a data science team or hire a data science consulting firm. The good news: the options aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, you should use a...
read morePart 1 of 3: A Beginner’s Guide to Container Orchestration
Introduction This article is Part 1 of a multi-part series on Container Orchestration. Part 1 is a conceptual introduction for beginners (if you have little or no conceptual experience with these topics.) Part 1 gives a conceptual foundation on core topics including...
read moreApplications of Artificial Intelligence – the mainstream market is moving beyond experimentation
“The number of enterprises implementing artificial intelligence (AI) grew 270 percent in the past four years and tripled in the past year, according to the Gartner, Inc. 2019 CIO Survey.” This increase equates to 37% of enterprises in the survey. This statistic...
read moreThe open source trend in advanced analytics: 3 reasons to use technology like Python and R
2010 was a big year: The website KDnuggets, a leading site on AI, data science, and other advanced analytics topics, has been attracting hard-core data scientists for decades. Every year, KDnuggets conducts an annual survey on the “Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used.”...
read moreCloud Healthcheck – It’s about the data, stupid
Data is the most valuable asset that any corporation has. Human beings are wired to secure things that they 'perceive' as valuable. As long as companies continue to think of the cloud simply as commodity compute and storage, the level of attention provided to securing...
read moreThe World Will Have 175 Zettabytes of Data by 2025 – Your Innovation Depends on Data Engineering
According to IDC, the world had 33 zettabytes of data in 2018. By 2025, we’ll have 175 zettabytes, a 27% annual growth rate. Between now and 2025, leading organizations will use data engineering and data engineering services to replace old data warehouse architectures...
read moreChoosing a Partner for Data Analytics Consulting – Three Essential Considerations
According to Gartner analyst Nick Heudecker, 60% to 85% of big data projects fail. While big data captures the headlines, data projects in general share similar difficulties. Now, more than ever, choosing the right partner for business intelligence, data analytics,...
read moreShould you go open-source when it comes to Big Data, and should you go it alone?
Big data doesn’t simply mean large quantities of data, and it doesn’t have a single agreed-upon definition. Regardless of what defines “big,” though, datasets will only continue to grow as more and more analog information is digitized, the internet of things continues...
read moreJoin Us at AppFest 2019
Apps are common place in our daily lives. Our lives wouldn’t be the same without some of our favorite apps. Music, health, home automation, the impact is tremendous. It wasn’t that long ago when we were still buying CDs. Now we have access to just about every CD...
read moreDemystifying Naive Bayes Classifier
Classification and prediction are the two most essential aspects of Machine Learning, and Naive Bayes is a basic but surprisingly powerful algorithm for predictive modeling. Naive Bayes Algorithm is not only known for its simplicity, but also for its effectiveness. A...
read moreWhat’s New in SQL Server 2019
Microsoft’s latest iteration of their versatile and venerable SQL Server has arrived, and the 2019 version touts a number of powerful features. With support across multiple operating systems, development languages, and data types, as well as expanded data...
read moreBig Data Analysis Transforms Business Processes
Today businesses are happily embracing the power of data and technology in order to be more objective and data driven. The concept of big data analytics is not new, as businesses have applied analytics on the collected data to gain insights and discover trends, using...
read moreTop 10 Big Data Analytics Companies in Charlotte in 2018
With Big Data and analytics companies flooding the market, it is often hard to find the best fit for your organization. Here is a compilation of the highest rated companies in the Big Data field, known for their innovation and business analytics tools. Big Data firms...
read moreRetail & E-commerce Businesses are tapping into the potential of Big Data
An increasing number of enterprises, especially retail and e-commerce businesses are tapping into the potential of big data to win big using predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is the process of extracting information from big data to predict trends and...
read moreAWS – A Leading Cloud Platform
In today's increasingly data-driven business atmosphere, analysis of this ever-growing data becomes a challenge with traditional analytical tools. Enterprises must strategize to derive meaningful insights from their vast amounts of data. Most businesses have already...
read moreBig Data Empowers Artificial Intelligence to make Vital Business Decisions
Today we are at the dawn of a technological revolution that is of greater magnitude compared to Internet and mobile communication technologies. With technologies like artificial intelligence and big data evolving quickly and the exponential growth of these two...
read moreBig Data & SQL: The Bipartisan Solution We Really Need
As our data assets continue to grow larger and more complex, the need for Big Data technologies has never been greater. Today, there are many tools are frameworks available to handle these needs, most built on the underlying Hadoop framework. Since Hadoop’s inception...
read moreWhy Data Analytics Solutions Are Getting Popular Among Businesses
Data analysis continues to show its value time and time again. It empowers organizations to leverage the myriad information at their disposal to make better decisions across every aspect of their business. Further, data analytics solutions open entirely new lines of...
read moreBig Data Analytics Concepts and Strategies
Big data analytics has caught the imagination of business and industry leaders around the world. From being the 12th man for Germany in the 2014 World Cup to helping Donald Trump win the 2016 US Presidential elections, big data has been leveraged on a global scale...
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