“Big Data” actually comprises of the huge amounts of data collected about every person on Earth and their surroundings. This data is collected by various organisations, companies and by the government as well. The data generated is extremely huge and…
How big data and recommendation systems can change our lives?
Recommendation systems have impacted or even redefined our lives in many ways. One example of this impact is how our online shopping experience is being redefined. As we browse through products, the Recommendation system offer recommendations of products we might…
How big data can help travel industry?
Big data has been helping redefine the growth strategies of almost every industry or vertical you can name and the travel and hospitality sector cannot stay in isolation. Overall, the travel and hospitality industry faces the need to massively shift…
What are the top big data analytics pain points?
Big Data offers business enterprises a never-before opportunity to improve productivity and their revenue. However, enterprises have been struggling with the task of getting the best out of the Big Data they collect. A survey conducted in 2012 on 300…
What is the impact of big data in home health care?
Big data represents an unprecedented opportunity for the healthcare industry to move to the next level of service quality. While a lot of discussion on the relation between big data and the healthcare industry tend to circle around the services…
How Big Data is Influencing Data Driven Advertising?
Big data has been significantly influencing data driven advertising. Originally, big data is a good fit for data driven advertising because this type of advertising mainly depends upon data. A survey conducted by BlueKai, a leading big data platform found…
How to set up Hadoop on single node and multi node?
We will describe Hadoop setup on single node and multi node. The Hadoop environment setup and configuration will be described in details. First you need to download the following software (rpm). Java JDK RPM Apache Hadoop 0.20.204.0 RPM A) Single…
What is Apache Sqoop and how to use it to import/export data from Hadoop Distributed File System?
Apache Sqoop is a tool used for transferring data from/to Hadoop distributed file system. Hadoop architecture can process BIG data and store it in HDFS. But if we want to use that data then we need to use some tool…