Roaring Elephant

Another week, another Big Data News episode. After going over all the event ticket giveaways that are currently going on, we have an article that goes over the basics on ETL vs ELT and have some fun with R graphs by the XKCD web comic. We finish with an in depth article on columnar data stores and a quick shout-out to Apache Nifi.

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In this GDPR world, Data Governance and Data Lineage are, or should be, very much top of mind for anybody in the Big Data world. We reached out to Mandy Chessell, who has been very active in this area and were delighted when she accepted to do an interview with us.

In this second part, we discuss the ins and outs of good data stewardship and how companies can adopt, implement and contribute.

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Another episode of Big Data News and not just another episode, but an episode packed and packed with items. Before we do our regular article reviews, we are doing raffles for not one, not two but three different events! And as if that was not enough, our friends from Pulsar dropped in with their big Apache top-level project announcement.

So not very bite sized this time, but smack full of delicious Big Data news!

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In this GDPR world, Data Governance and Data Lineage are, or should be, very much top of mind for anybody in the Big Data world. We reached out to Mandy Chessell, who has been very active in this area and were delighted when she accepted to do an interview with us.

In this first part, the focus is more on Mandy herself and we lay the groundwork for the second part that will go live in episode 109.

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In this edition of Big Data News, we take the pulse of Machine learning adoption and talk about Big Data  Online Learning by IBM on Coursera and by Columbia University on Edx. We round the episode off with a look at MR3 and the evil that are benchmarks.

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In this episode we welcome Phil Radley, Chief Data Architect at BT to talk about the Big Data deployment at BT.

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In this Big Data News episode, we discuss an article with guidelines on how you should arrange your data gathering projects with the customer in mind. Dave brings a matrix of visualization products.

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Matteo and Sijie from Streamlio reached out to us and let us know they had an update on Apache Pulsar. It turned out they had a lot to talk about so we cut the interview in two parts. the first of which was published in episode 101. Here is the second part with information on version 2.0 and the future of the Apache Pulsar project.

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Big Data News at the end of the summer is not easy to find, but we did end up with three topics to discuss: from isolating GPUs in Hadoop 3.x to replicating big data (to the cloud) and quick tips from Adam's blog.

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Matteo and Sijie from Streamlio reached out to us and let us know they had an update on Apache Pulsar. It turned out they had a lot to talk about so we cut the interview in two parts and here is the first part where they introduce Apache Pulsar, go in depth on the correct deployment scaling of a stable Pulsar cluster and clarify Pulsars "at least once vs exactly once" strategy. Part two will go in more depth on what's new. Stay tuned!

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