Huge amounts of data are needed to calculate key performance indicators (KPIs), a luxury that only large enterprises were able to afford. This post series discusses how companies of all...

An overview of 12 open source and commercial SQL-on-Hadoop tools: Apache Hive, Apache Sqoop, Apache Phoenix, Impala, Presto, BigSQL, CitusDB, Hadapt, Jethro, Lingual, and HAWQ.

Introducing Apache Hadoop to the organization can be difficult - everyone is trained and experienced in the old ways of SQL and all the analytics tools integrate with SQL. Certain...

The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were the most celebrated winter games on the net. Their official website had more visitors in one night than Vancouver 2010 had during the entire...

Big Data was always around in some form or another. At some point, businesses decided to use that information to learn what makes their clients tick with phrases like "sales...

We love things that are great in pairs, things like chocolate and vanilla, gin and tonic, and Simon and Garfunkel. This is why we are proud to announce the new...

Researchers from the University of Bristol measure [public mood in the UK](http://mediapatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/) by analyzing tweets. In Brazil a team led by a computer scientist use Twitter to [identify dengue fever...

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( Kunsthoffpassage funnel wall photo by Serge.Bystro , Some rights reserved ) Funnel analysis is awesome. Whether your company has a checkout, a registration, or any kind of process on...