The way that people do business in Japan has radically changed as a result of COVID-19. Historically, the Japanese have been very much about face to face relationship selling where you establish relationships and build trust but now everything has to be done remotely or online. Like everyone else, the Japanese are really keen to keep doing business so they've actually embraced the remote way of doing things which has been quite interesting to watch and had some unexpected benefits.

Welcome back to another one of our Community Roundups, folks! August flew by in an instant, but don't worry — we've got a nice recap of everything that's been going on in the community. Let's take a look, shall we?

Data scientists today have to choose between a massive toolbox where every item has its pros and cons. We love the simplicity of Python tools like pandas and Scikit-learn, the operation-readiness of Kubernetes, and the scalability of Spark and Hadoop, so we just use all of them. What happens? Data scientists explore data using pandas, then data engineers use Spark to recode the same logic to scale or with live streams or operational databases.

From leading banks, and insurance organizations to some of the largest telcos, manufacturers, retailers, healthcare and pharma, organizations across diverse verticals lead the way with real-time data and streaming analytics. These businesses use data-fueled insights to enhance the customer experience, reduce costs, and increase revenues. And Cloudera is at the heart of enabling these real-time data driven transformations.

This was one of the key takeaways from student Noah Bledsoe in the latest episode of the Data Brilliant – Unplugged series, which explored how Radford University is arming its students with data skills to prepare them for the future world of work.

SEO is a very important aspect of the digital marketing strategy for a business website or a blog. With that being said, precaution needs to be taken when implementing this marketing strategy and you should have a reliable tool to gauge the performance of your SEO strategy. With plenty of tools and services on the market, it is often overwhelming for SEO professionals and digital marketers to choose the best. Sitechecker is a known-name and many SEO professionals recommend it.

Kubernetes is an open-source platform for container orchestration. You can use it to deploy a highly resilient, self-healing infrastructure using automation and infrastructure as code (IaC). Kubernetes includes features for zero downtime deployments, scaling, automatic rollout and rollback of updates, and service discovery. Kubernetes is designed to help you manage container deployments at scale via REST API.

In part 2 of the series focusing on the impact of evolving technology on the telecom industry, we sat down with Vijay Raja, Director of Industry & Solutions Marketing at Cloudera to get his views on how the sector is changing and where it goes next. Hi Vijay, thank you so much for joining us again. To continue where we left off, as industry players continue to shift toward a more 5G centric network, how is 5G impacting the industry from a data perspective?

Have you ever felt that, by looking at just numbers, that you are probably missing out on the bigger picture? That’s, of course, why we have visualizations – to form patterns out of those numbers that we can then interpret, as well as glean insights from and deepen our understanding of what the data reveals. Now, what if we bring numbers and visualizations together in a table, one way to explore those numbers and find hidden gems of meaning? Let’s have a look at mini charts!

For a business to be successful, customer relationship is a determining factor. No matter how big your venture is, without an efficient customer-business relationship it will surely suffer a crash in revenue at some point. This is particularly valid for online businesses and e-commerce stores that offer direct retail service to consumers. They have a larger customer base and it’s very hard for such platforms to manage every aspect of the retail.