Sat.Sep 05, 2015 - Fri.Sep 11, 2015

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BARC and MapR Join Information Builders Management Seminar Series Making Real Money With Big Data and Smart Analytics

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions will be joined by leading analyst firm BARC and big data technology innovator MapR in a management seminar series, Making Real Money with Big Data and Smart Analytics, designed to provide insight into how enterprises can leverage data and analytics to create competitive advantage, grow revenues, and reduce costs.

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Learning Spark using Python: Basics and Applications

MLWhiz

I generally have a use case for Hadoop in my daily job. It has made my life easier in a sense that I am able to get results which I was not able to see with SQL queries. But still I find it painfully slow. I have to write procedural programs while I work. As in merge these two datasets and then filter and then merge another dataset and then filter using some condition and yada-yada.

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On procedural and declarative programming in MapReduce

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by SEAN GERRISH and AMIR NAJMI To deliver the services our users have come to rely upon, Googlers have to process a lot of data — often at web-scale. For doing analyses quickly, it helps to abstract away as much of the repeated work as possible. In this post, we’ll describe some things we have learned about mixing declarative and procedural programing paradigms to simplify MapReduce as used by data scientists.

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Cloud Square, Inc. and Information Builders Team to Drive Better Business Solutions

Information Builders

Information Builders , a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, announced today that it is partnering with Cloud Square, Inc., a leading provider of information management and big data solutions. Together, the companies will provide customers with fast track data quality and master data management (MDM) solutions to realize business benefits faster.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Information Builders Named Value Leader in EMA Mid-Sized BI RADAR Report

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that it was named a value leader in the 2015 EMA Mid-Sized BI Radar Report. The evaluation was based on Information Builders WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform.

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Information Builders Combines InfoAssist and InfoDiscovery to Deliver Most Complete Self-Service Product for Business Users

Information Builders

Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that it has combined its WebFOCUS InfoDiscovery and InfoAssist products into a single, unified solution for analysts and business users. The new InfoAssist offering will enable organizations to visually analyze complex data sets, generate sophisticated data visualizations, dashboards and reports, and enhance data-driven decision-making enterprise wide.