Wednesday, May 15, 2013 |
News Highlights
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Stephen Swoyer
At TDWI's World Conference in Chicago,
Ken Rudin, director of analytics for Facebook, surprised many
attendees when he revealed that Facebook has built itself a
conventional data warehouse.
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Mike Atwood
Industries are inspired by competition.
This is advantageous for organizations relying on outsourcing, with
a plethora of vendors vying to provide that harmonious service you
are looking for. Then again, do you need to outsource everything?
Mike Atwood from Booz & Company looks at why competition has taken
on a whole new meaning.
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Stephen Swoyer
Over the last five years, many DBMS
vendors have introduced native or in-database implementations of
MapReduce, a popular parallel programming model for distributed
computing. One key difference is that MapReduce in the data
management world tends to speak a very different programming
language. There are plenty of other differences, too.
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Mac McConnell
A 10-point guide to getting started
with business process management.
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TDWI Webinar Series:
Speaker:
David Stodder
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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. |
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Upcoming Webinars of Interest
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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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Part of the discussion and debate
recently about big data, big data analytics, and the role of the
data scientist revolves around the skills required to be a data
scientist, who is supposed to possess statistical or quantitative
model-building skills, computer science skills to deal with new and
diverse technologies, business savvy and acumen, and subject matter
expertise.
Speaker:
Fern Halper
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