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A Dose Of Data Science Demystification

Join two data engineers and analysts in pulling back the curtain on real customer engagements, showing how to select and implement advanced data science and analytic techniques. In this session we will discuss our implementation of two data science models at a large agricultural products manufacturer: a propensity-to-buy model and a recommendation engine. We will discuss how each of these models works and how they were implemented for our client.

Make Your Data Fabrics Work Better

To gain the full benefits of the DataOps strategy, your data lakes must change. The traditional concept of bringing all data to one place, whether on-premises or in the cloud, raises questions of timing, scale, organization and budget. The answer? Data fabric. It replaces traditional data lake organization concepts with a more flexible and economical architecture. In this session, we'll define what a data fabric is, show you how you can begin organizing around the concept, and discuss how to align it to your business objectives.

Demand for Data Grows in Agriculture

Agriculture (Ag) is the oldest and largest industrial vertical in the world, and its importance continues to grow as it becomes more challenging for people to access healthy and fresh food. A recent Agriculture Analytics Market report, released by Markets and Markets, estimates that by 2023, the global agriculture analytics market size will grow from 585 million to 1.2 billion dollars as demands for real-time data analysis and improved operations increase.

Overview of the Operational Database performance in CDP

This article gives you an overview of Cloudera’s Operational Database (OpDB) performance optimization techniques. Cloudera’s Operational Database can support high-speed transactions of up to 185K/second per table and a high of 440K/second per table. On average, the recorded transaction speed is about 100K-300K/second per node. This article provides you an overview of how you can optimize your OpDB deployment in either Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Public Cloud or Data Center.

Powered by Fivetran Fuels Savvy Data Insights Platforms and Agencies

Powered by Fivetran (PBF) is a new offering for modern data insights platforms that provide analytics-as-a-service companies. These firms build data products on top of disparate solutions such as Tableau, Snowflake and Redshift, and offer insights to decision-makers in diverse verticals, from finance and marketing to energy and transportation.

Ask questions to BigQuery and get instant answers through Data QnA

Today, we’re announcing Data QnA, a natural language interface for analytics on BigQuery data, now in private alpha. Data QnA helps enable your business users to get answers to their analytical queries through natural language questions, without burdening business intelligence (BI) teams. This means that a business user like a sales manager can simply ask a question on their company’s dataset, and get results back that same way.

Eliminate the pitfalls on your path to public cloud

As organizations look to get smarter and more agile in how they gain value and insight from their data, they are now able to take advantage of a fundamental shift in architecture. In the last decade, as an industry, we have gone from monolithic machines with direct-attached storage to VMs to cloud. The main attraction of cloud is due to its separation of compute and storage – a major architectural shift in the infrastructure layer that changes the way data can be stored and processed.

How to run queries periodically in Apache Hive

In the lifecycle of a data warehouse in production, there are a variety of tasks that need to be executed on a recurring basis. To name a few concrete examples, scheduled tasks can be related to data ingestion (inserting data from a stream into a transactional table every 10 minutes), query performance (refreshing a materialized view used for BI reporting every hour), or warehouse maintenance (executing replication from one cluster to another on a daily basis).

New Connector: YouTube Analytics

The value of YouTube has grown significantly for companies looking to bolster their brands with video content. The YouTube API is report-based, and its prebuilt reports fall into one of two categories: channel reporting and content owner reporting. Channel reports refer to the videos on a specific YouTube channel, while content owner reports contain data on all the channels owned by a particular individual.