Category: Blog
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Gartner Positions Tableau as a Leader for the First Time in BI Magic Quadrant
One of the most highly anticipated and highly regarded reviews of the business intelligence market was published a couple of days ago. Gartner released its 2013 iteration of the famous Magic Quadrant for BI and Analytics Platform (aka. Gartner BI MQ) – and Tableau was cited as a “Leader” for the first time. Congraulations team Tableau!
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Transition from Academia to Capgemini: A New Chapter in Data and Analytics
After enjoying research for the last four years, especially during my time at CERN, I have made a significant decision. I have decided to resign from my postgraduate position and make a transition from academia to the exciting world of Capgemini. My passion for Data and Analytics remains strong and will be the core focus…
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CERN Photographs featured in Gallery curated by Yahoo
Two of my photos taken at CERN are featured in the CERN Gallery curated by the Yahoo Editorial: Physics projects don’t get any bigger than this. The active European Organization for Nuclear Research, aka CERN, formed in 1954 and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, employs thousands of world-class scientists on the forefront of breakthrough research. Its…
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Challenges of Big Data Analytics in High-Energy Physics
There are four key issues to overcome if you want to tame Big Data: volume (quantity of data), variety (different forms of data), velocity (how fast the data is generated and processed) and veracity (variation in quality of data). You have to be able to deal with lots and lots, of all kinds of data, moving really…
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Displaying Dimuon Events from the CMS Detector using D3.js
I became a Python geek and GnuPlot maniac since I joined CERN around three years ago. I have to admit, however, that I really enjoy the flexibility of D3.js, and its capability to render histograms directly in the web browser. D3 is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. This library helps you to bring data to life…
