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NBA analytics: Going data pro

For the NBA, like every other sports league, awards are important. They can generate attention,…

Jun 26, 2017

Kafka: The story so far

Hard problems at scale, the future of application development, and building an open source business.…

Jun 20, 2017

Spark gets automation: Analyzing code and tuning clusters in production

Spark is the hottest big data tool around, and most Hadoop users are moving towards…

Jun 1, 2017

Artificial intelligence on Hadoop: Does it make sense?

MapR just announced QSS, a new offering that enables the training of complex deep learning…

May 26, 2017

Graph databases and RDF: It’s a family affair

RDF is a graph data model you’ve probably either never heard of, or already dismissed.…

May 19, 2017

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