Roaring Elephant

In this episode of Bite Sized Big Data news, we cover the merging of Data Artisans and Alibaba forming the new Ververica entity, AI related challenges and a BBC cook book for visualizations in R.

Dave had some issues recording his side, our apologies for the rather bad quality of Dave's audio track on this episode.

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In this episode we have interviews with Niels Basjes and Aljoscha Krettek, respectively track chairs for Big Compute & Storage and Internet of Things. We talk with them about what being a track lead means, the sessions in their tracks and of course about what they are doing themselves with Big Data and Advanced Analytics.

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In this Deep learning heavy edition of Big Data News, we have articles about how to get into the Data Scientist life, how and where to get the skills and how you eventually may end up beating pro-gamers at their thing.

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We recently sat down with Kuba and Pavel from H2O to discuss how you can easily lift your Spark notebooks to the next level by adding some H20 to it using their open source Sparkling Water project.

In this second part of the interview, we go deeper into the technical details of Sparking Water and how you can deploy and use it in your environment. We end the conversation with a look at the roadmap and anything else the future may bring.

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The second news episode for 2019 is almost entirely devoted to practical AI with some tutorial notebooks and finding a parking space. We end this show with dire warnings of the impending Big Data induced Apocalypse!

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We recently sat down with Kuba and Pavel from H2O to discuss how you can easily lift your Spark notebooks to the next level by adding some H20 to it using their open source Sparkling Water project.

In this first part of the interview, we cover the conceptual principles behind Sparkling water and discuss some existing use case implementations.

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The Hortonworks -Cloudera merger has been finalized and the new CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) has been announced. We also talk about data mining bias, the good and bad of Hackathons and end on a rant about data sizes.

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In episode 121 we discussed the first part of this story and now we conclude with a discussion of the data life-cycle considerations that apply to a Big Data and Advanced Analytics environment.

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In this first Big Data News episode of 2019, we cover how A.I. will nudge you to a happier (work)life, the new Hive Data Warehouse connector. We end the episode with unstable artificial intelligence and how you can make a chance on a one million Euro prize!

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Does the standard Dev-Test-Prod cycle make sense in a Big Data environment or should you approach this subject a little differently?

In this episode, we sum up our experiences and best practice tips regarding the infrastructure part and Data Lifecycle  will be features in the next topic episode.

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