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March 6, 2019

It may seem like only yesterday that we said goodbye to 2017, but we are almost half-way through 2018. Big things in Big Data happened in the month of April. Many of us watched Mark Zuckerberg testify in front of…

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run” - Roy Charles Amara Mr Amara, an American researcher and futurist, probably didn’t anticipate how much wisdom was encapsulated…

March 5, 2019

Every once in awhile, the ultimate question comes up: *"What is the best analysis tool for BI on Hadoop?!" * AtScale is not in the business of favoring one tool versus the other. We are in the business of making…

March 4, 2019

Summer is fast approaching and big data is (still) growing. While you were preparing for the coming hot summer days, you may have missed some of May’s big data news. Without further ado, here is what you might have missed…

As the World Cup is kicking off, some of us might be spending a lot of sleepless nights (or waking up earlier) to watch the games. Here is a fun fact: the most anticipated match is from Group H, Japan…

I am a software engineer and I like abstractions. I like abstractions because done correctly an abstraction will factor complexity down to a level where I don’t have to spend any brain cycles thinking about it. Abstraction lets me work…

What does it take build and support a team of data scientists? Conducting exploratory data analysis or even basic business intelligence on Hadoop often requires input from data scientists who: Create models for related information across Hadoop. Structure databases to…

Just last week Cloudera released some impressive performance numbers showing how the Impala SQL-on-Hadoop engine scales to support concurrent query workloads. The Cloudera blog post confirms what we at AtScale have experienced with real-world customer installations – that Impala plus…

In the fifteen years since Tableau was founded, it has emerged as one of the preeminent business intelligence software tools, to the extent that only Microsoft Excel is utilized by more enterprises to analyze data. Tableau’s popularity stems in many…

If you are like me, a Tableau fan, you’ve probably used Tableau for many years, attended numerous Tableau Conferences, and cheered with great enthusiasm when the engineers at Tableau demonstrated the latest and greatest enhancements to the software. You may…