Monthly Archives: April 2018

Starting at Port of Rotterdam per 1 May 2018

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Next week (1 May 2018) I will start as a Hadoop specialist/data steward/data custodian/data something something at the Advanced Analytics team at Port of Rotterdam. We haven’t worked out a fancy data something title yet. I’m already working at this … Continue reading →

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Dataworks Summit Berlin 2018, day two

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Back for round two of keynotes, good technical sessions and discussing them with fellow data specialists in between. Keynotes First up was  Frank Säuberlich from Teradata, who had an interesting example of machine learning for fraud detection at Danske Bank. … Continue reading →

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Dataworks Summit Berlin 2018, day one

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

I’m back at Dataworks Summit this year. This time I didn’t win any ticket, but my new employer, Port of Rotterdam, has arranged that I could go. Pretty cool, because I did not want to miss it. This time it’s … Continue reading →

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Building HDP 2.6 on AWS, Part 3: the worker nodes

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

This is part 3 in a series on how to build a Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 cluster on AWS. By now we have an edge node to run Ambari Server, three master nodes for Hadoop name nodes and such. Now … Continue reading →

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I feel great when I study

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

When I started studying Hadoop, Python and machine learning in 2016, I found something out that I didn’t expect. I feel better when I study. When I finished another problem, exam or course, and I stepped outside the house to … Continue reading →

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