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Data Digest: 3 Articles about IoT Botnets and Security

Mitigate future DDoS attacks by learning how manufacturers and users can improve IoT security, how Bluetooth technology may increase IoT security risks, and how IoT botnets are formed.

Overcoming Patchwork Data Prep

In their work, many data and business analysts spend the bulk of their time on data preparation tasks using a patchwork of tools. I visited with Manan Goel of Paxata to discuss how to reduce this overhead, how to weave together basic and advanced data preparation capabilities, and how analysts can be more efficient and effective in their work.

Data Engineers Suddenly Very Much In Demand

What does it take to be a data engineer? A background in software engineering doesn't hurt. Although the number of data engineers doubled from 2013 to 2015, that growth rate far outstripped that of data scientists.

Data Digest: Careers in Open Source, Analytics for Customer Service, Performance of Hadoop Analytics

Today read tips for landing a career in open source development, how to use analytics to improve customer interactions, and the highlights of a new benchmark study for analytics engines on Hadoop.

Benefits of the Hadoop-Based Data Lake

In some emerging best practices, a free-form data lake implemented on Hadoop complements a structured relational data warehouse.

5 Minutes with an Analyst: Randy Law, Analytics and Insights

Great data scientists need to be open to a wide variety of perspectives.

Data Digest: Examining All Your Data, Types of Analytics, Predictions for Big Data

How to find value in data that hasn’t been used, what each type of analytics is good for, and making predictions about the future of big data and advanced analytics.

Data Digest: Up-to-the-Minute Poll Analysis, Sell Your Data, Improve Visualizations, Understand BI

See an updated consolidation of election polling predictions, plus learn how selling data can be a huge opportunity if approached correctly, how to improve the quality of data visualizations, and understand the basic history and current potential of BI.

It's Official: Metadata Management Is a Strategic Problem

Gartner recently published its first-ever "Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions". Managing metadata isn't a new problem but it has certainly become a strategic one.

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