What Is It?

A distributed, column oriented, NoSQL data store that is part of the Hadoop Ecosystem. It is an open source implementation of Google’s BigTable and is used by a large number of enterprises in production environments, such as…

On a whim, I opted to take a weekend road trip east to check out the Think Big Festival. Held on the campus of North Idaho College in the picturesque area of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the Think Big Festival was focusing on two of my technology passions: robotics and…

In the first part of my machine learning series, I illustrated the broad concept of machine learning by taking a little bit of Twitter, mixing it with some machine learning goodness and creating a web application that, based upon the user’s…

During a local Spark meetup, I was introduced to the databricks Community Edition. Within the Spark community, databricks is well-known, so I was excited when I got my early invite to try out the Community Edition.

For years, the application of predictive analytics in supply chain management (SCM) has been described as “transformative”, a “big opportunity”, the “new business intelligence” and even “the holy grail”. Yet, in conversations…