Big Data Analytics

Apache Flume and Streaming Data:Apache Flume, as its website mentions – is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating and moving large amounts of log data from many different sources to a…

Brad Pitt starrer ‘Moneyball’, released in 2011, made the concept of using data science in sports globally understood. For sports nerds though, the book that inspired the movie - ‘Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game’ by Michael…

The last two weeks have been an exercise in understanding the challenges a data scientist faces in the process of data preparation.In this time, my attempts to analyse Shakespeare and Indian football along with creating some animated…

With the new additions of Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams in its recent releases, Kafka is gearing up to become a more comprehensive platform for handling high velocity data streams. A brief overview of Kafka is in order before we get into…

As you may already know, there has been a huge upsurge in the importance and popularity of data analytics in the last couple of years. With an ever-increasing number of job opportunities, plenty of people from different professional…

Introduction As we move further into the information age, we are finding ourselves in an increasingly data-rich and data-oriented world. Almost everything that a company does today is dictated by data and analytics in one way or another.…