Analytics

Legacy Versus Next-Generation - How Open Source is Driving the Big Data Market

When it comes to solutions for the big data sector, there is a clear split between the legacy and next-generation approaches to software development. Legacy vendors in this space generally have their own large internal development organizations, dedicated to building proprietary, bespoke software. It’s an approach that has worked well over the years.

Talend Step-by-Step: Continuous Data Matching & Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure

Today, almost everyone has big data, machine learning and cloud at the top of their IT “to-do” list. The importance of these technologies can’t be overemphasized as all three are opening up innovation, uncovering opportunities and optimizing businesses. Machine learning isn’t a brand new concept, simple machine learning algorithms actually date back to the 1950s, though today it’s subject to large-scale data sets and applications.

How to process weather satellite data in real-time in BigQuery

Since the 1960s, scientists have been forecasting the weather using satellite-captured imagery. Although access to these satellite feeds used to be reserved just for meteorologists, these days anyone can jump online to find current satellite footage for their area. But what if you wanted to take things a step further? Maybe you’re curious about the history of weather events, or want to create a real-time feed for where you live.

How APIs, Edge Computing and AI will Evolve in 2018

If you’ve spent any time reading the round-up of 2018 technology predictions, you’ve likely seen Artificial Intelligence (AI) highlighted in nearly every one. The reason for this is because AI has a seemingly limitless number of applications and use cases for the enterprise. In fact, according to Gartner, over 85% of customer interactions will be managed without a human by 2020.

Webinar: Keboola & Looker: The Ultimate Cloud Based Data Stack

With the high demand for data and insights to be delivered quickly and on time, the pressure on analysts to deliver key insights is immense. The webinar will focus on the hurdles that an analyst will currently face, where current tools will often let them down and how, with the right cloud tools, these problems can be completely alleviated so these things are no longer an issue.

Successful Methodologies with Talend

For those who are familiar with my previous Talend blogs perhaps you’ve noticed that I like to talk about building better solutions through design patterns and best practices. My blogs also tend to be a bit long. Yet you read them; many thanks for that! This blog is going to focus on methodologies as they apply to Talend solutions.