Wednesday, April 24, 2013 |
News Highlights
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Mike Schiff
Recent advances in analytic technology
have provided us with the horsepower necessary to harvest much more
big data.
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Linda Briggs
Consulting firm McKinsey predicts a
shortage by 2018 of up to 190,000 people in the U.S. with
the deep analytical skills needed to work with big data. "I think it
actually could be higher than that," says Dr. Betsy Page Sigman, a
distinguished teaching professor at the McDonough School of Business
at Georgetown University. In this interview, she talks about the
coming talent shortage and what can be done about it.
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Philip Russom
This set of tweets will help you
understand how Hadoop can be integrated into business intelligence
and data warehousing and why you should care. These tweets provide an
overview of the issues and best practices in a form that's compact
yet amazingly comprehensive.
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Stephen Swoyer
Today, comparatively few enterprises
are using HDFS, the distributed storage substrate of the Hadoop
framework. However, a staggering proportion of organizations plan to
adopt Hadoop. In fact, over the next three years, nearly three-quarters of BI/DW shops expect to be using Hadoop in production.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
Philip Russom
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Just a few years ago, big data was a
problem in terms of scaling up IT systems and discovering the
business value. Thanks to advances in vendor platforms and user
practices, most enterprises today consider big data an opportunity --
not a problem -- because they can mine and analyze it for valuable
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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No profession is getting more attention
these days than that of the "data scientist." Data scientists have
made the covers of business magazines and are practically rock stars
at online companies such as Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Speaker:
David Stodder
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Now
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Apple defined a new category of computing
with the release of the Apple iPad. It also reinvigorated the BI
market with visually attractive dashboards on every tablet. Mobile
BI promises to make BI more immediate and accessible for executives
and field workers alike.
Speaker:
Cindi Howson
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Now
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Events Calendar
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