Don’t believe the (Big Data) hype?

Don’t believe the (Big Data) hype?

Don’t believe the (Big Data) hype? Two Gartner reports recently about Big Data Your Big Data projects will fail and here’s why http://ht.ly/Sj41q (ZDNet Summary)  Big Data ROI remains elusive http://ht.ly/Sj41q (ZDNet summary).  Both reports and...

Kudu – the end of MapReduce?

Kudu – the end of MapReduce? The latest in a long line of struggling Data Warehouse companies announced their results  on 5th November. Teradata had flat revenues and flat to slightly declining revenues predicted for the year. Look at the Dell/EMC idea,...

Data wrangling – just a phase or here to stay?

Data wrangling – just a phase or here to stay? There have been myriad articles, blogs, posts in the last 12-24 months about Data Wrangling. I don’t intend to re-hash those here – if you want a summary of Data wrangling take a look at this article by...

Big Data has a Big Problem

Big Data has a Big Problem One of the keys to success in Big Data is having the skills to make Big Data projects successful. While some of these skills are ‘soft skills’, the core requirement is to know what we are doing with complex, highly interrelated...