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Big Data Fabric Weaves Together Automation, Scalability, and Intelligence

Cloudera

Forrester describes Big Data Fabric as, “A unified, trusted, and comprehensive view of business data produced by orchestrating data sources automatically, intelligently, and securely, then preparing and processing them in big data platforms such as Hadoop and Apache Spark, data lakes, in-memory, and NoSQL.”.

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A Guide to Data Analytics in the Travel Industry

Alation

Seasonality and trend predictions Many online travel companies use dynamic and flexible pricing strategies to respond to changes in demand and supply. Using predictive analytics, travel companies can forecast customer demand around things like holidays or weather to set optimum prices that maximize revenue.