New releases, updates to existing datasets and models, and what we are working on.
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Periscope Data is a cloud-based business intelligence analytics and distribution platform. Periscope Data has taken the pain out of data loading by directly connecting to your data sources with no messy ETLs. Periscope visualizes your data into charts, graphs and dashboards. All you need to do is to write SQL queries in Periscope and it […]
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If you haven’t heard of Yellowfin BI, it is a passionate startup focused on making Business Intelligence easy. Established in 2003, Yellowfin has been developed to satisfy a range of BI needs, from small businesses, to massive enterprise deployments and software vendors. Yellowfin makes a Business Intelligence platform built ontop of Tomcat/Java that processes and presents […]
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Talend has started leveraging Apache Spark as part of its big data integration platform. Spark leverages the speedy in-memory execution capability to accelerate data ingestion. Migrating to Apache Spark can provide performance improvements from 5 to 100 times. Talend promises to make the migration literally as simple as the push of a button with a […]
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To read or process the Ashley Madison data is fairly straight forward. The dataset comes with a suite of files. These are: am_am.dump.gz aminno_member.dump.gz aminno_member_email.dump.gz member_details.dump.gz member_login.dump.gz CreditCardTransactions.7z README Each of these files come with a PGP signature. You can use gunzip on a Mac (or unix platform) to extract the files. 7z files will […]
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Yes, we have a copy of it. No, we’re not selling it. However, we’ll be putting our data analytics and data quality glasses on to see what lies within. Several Australian cities featured prominently on the list of AM users. Singapore, which had banned the website was highly represented. There is nothing special about Ashley […]
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Bimodal IT refers to having two modes of IT, each designed to develop and deliver information- and technology-intensive services in its own way. Mode 1 is traditional, emphasizing scalability, efficiency, safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is non-sequential, emphasising agility and speed. After fads of Agile Management, PRINCE2, ITIL, P3M3, Waterfall etc… which all remain relevant […]
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Microsoft announced in Jan 2015 of a new browser for Windows 10. Code-named the Spartan project, it is designed to work on all devices across the Microsoft family from Laptops, Desktops, Phones, Tablets etc… Internet Explorer will still be distributed to support legacy enterprise applications. Read more…
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The tech portal Gigaom which has been covering tech news since 2006 has closed citing “Financial difficulties”. It has literally run out of money and its financiers will now own the assets of the portal. Bye Gigaom!
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Jeremy Snyder of Entiviti gets onboard as a startup advisor. Jeremy is a multi-talented individual who has been involved in several successful startups. Jeremy currently advises several startups in Big Data space. Over the coming weeks we will be looking at tweaking the Glitchdata business, and engaging with folks in the USA.
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Thank you to Fabien of Power Data Group for endorsing the ideas and vocalising the need of managed data in an increasing connect world with enterprises hungry for insights. You can have all the tools, and systems, but it takes careful planning, consultants and data to get insights and reports flowing. Glitchdata welcomes Power Data […]
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Gartner is hosting the Business Intelligence & Information Management (BIIM) Summit. A must attend event for BI/IM folks who are looking into the evolution of BI/IM to provide value to their organistions. What is interesting are topics like “the last mile for BI” and the move to “predictive and prescriptive” data. Two thoughts come to […]
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The future of Git is bright. It displaces probably every Code-Versioning System (CVS) system out there, and its open sourced (GPL2) So what is being displaced by Git? Mercurial svn cvs So what is great about Git? It’s flexibility, and ability to manage code in any code-management workflow that you can think of. Some examples […]
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Kudos to Brittany Wenger from Lakewood Ranch, USA for winning Google’s Science Fair Grand prize.Using a 6-node Artificial Neural Network (see her slides), and alot of cloud computing power, Brittany has managed to train the neural network to detect maligned breast tumors with an accuracy of 99.11% Now, what is notable is that this girl […]