Tag: BDA
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How to perform Text Mining at the Speed of Thought directly in Tableau
Tableau is an incredibly versatile tool, commonly known for its ability to create stunning visualizations. But did you know that with Tableau, you can also perform real-time, interactive text mining? Let’s delve into how we can harness this function to gain rapid insights from our textual data. Previously, during text mining tasks, you might have…
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How to load data to Hadoop with Alteryx and visualize with Tableau via Impala?
This YouTube tutorial shows you a handy way to load your Excel data to Cloudera Hadoop with Alteryx, and how to see and understand your data even faster with Tableau connected to Impala. The same tool chain to load and access data can be used with Hive (eg. on Hortonworks) or Spark SQL (eg. on MapR).…
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How to unleash Data Science with an MBA?
My Data Science journey starts at CERN where I finished my master thesis in 2009. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and has some questions to answer: like how the universe works and what is it made of. CERN collects nearly unbelievable amounts of data…
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A Data Processing Guide in the Big Data Jungle
We are deep in the Big Data jungle. According to Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, Big Data has now officially passed the “peak of inflated expectations”, and is now on a one-way trip to the “trough of disillusionment”. Gartner says it’s done so rather fast, because we already have consistency in the way we approach…
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7 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Financial Institutions
Recently we hear a lot about Big Data Analytics’ ability to deliver usable insight – but what does this mean exactly for the financial service industry? While much of the Big Data activity in the market up to now has been experimenting about Big Data technologies and proof-of-concept projects, I like to show in this post seven issues banks and…
