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How to Buy SAS Visual Analytics
Stories about SAS Visual Analytics are among the most widely read posts on this blog. In the last two years I’ve received many queries from readers who complain that it’s hard to get clear answers...
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Spark 1.4 Released
On June 11, the Spark team announced availability of Release 1.4. More than 210 contributors from 70 different organizations contributed more than 1,000 patches. Spark continues to expand its...
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O’Reilly Data Science Survey 2015
O’Reilly releases its 2015 Data Science Salary Survey. The report, authored by John King and Roger Magoulas summarizes results from an ongoing web survey. The 2015 survey includes responses from...
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Benchmark: Spark Beats MapReduce
A group of scientists affiliated with IBM and several universities report on a detailed analysis of MapReduce and Spark performance across four different workloads. In this benchmark, Spark...
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IBM and Spark (Updated)
Updated March 8, 2016. After publishing this post, I met with several IBM executives at Spark Summit East, who confirmed the accuracy of the original post and provided additional detail, which I’ve...
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Python for Analytics
A reader complains that I did not include Python in a survey of Machine Learning in Hadoop. It’s a fair point. There was a lively debate last year between R and Python advocates, variously described...
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Distributed Analytics: A Primer
Can we leverage distributed computing for machine learning and predictive analytics? The question keeps surfacing in different contexts, so I thought I’d take a few minutes to write an overview of the...
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SAS Versus R (Part 1)
Which is better for analytics, SAS or R? One frequently sees discussions on this topic in social media; for examples, see here, here, here, here, here and here. Like many debates in social media,...
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SAS Versus R Part Two
In a previous post, I summarized some myths about SAS and R — arguments offered by proponents of one or the other that deserve to be dismissed. In this post, I will review some arguments that do make...
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Strata+Hadoop World week is a good opportunity to update the list of platforms for high-performance advanced analytics. Vendors are hustling this week to announce their latest enhancements; I’ll post...
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