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. They used transaction data sort of as pixels and ran Read more
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 happening in Berlin.
It started with keynotes. Scott Gnau from Hortonworks announced Data Steward Studio for better data governance. Scott’s message was that your data strategy is your cloud strategy is your business strategy. You should not see them as totally different things. (more…)
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Suddenly everybody talks about New Product. It’s said it changes everything. Articles about New Product appear on Hacker News for weeks. Then colleagues on LinkedIn even mention New Product (Warning! People you know, know New Product!). (Or they’re just linking to articles about New Product, so they look cool. Either way: they must know New Product!)
There are a lot of data-related Apache products out there and it’s hard to keep up with all of them. There are several products to stream or flow data (what’s the difference?). Like Kafka, Storm, Flink and NiFi. Yes, all products have documentation, but for an outsider their description sounds like “enterprise scalable streaming solutions”. What does that tell you?
I followed a Crash Course on Apache Nifi at the DataWorks Summit in München last month and was quite impressed. At heart I’m a command line kind of guy, but this graphical interface is really slick and it’s amazing what you can do to find out where your data goes to with NiFi. I decided to organize a workshop for my colleagues at Open Circle Solutions. (more…)
“How do you got in Big Data?”, is a question that people asked me a couple of times now. So let me give that answer in a blogpost as well.
I’ve used eight sources of Big Data related knowledge and skills:
Day two started with more keynotes. Ross Porter of Dell EMC talked about the ingredients of a successful analytics project. Carlo Vaiti of HP Enterprise had an interesting talk about trends in big data, but I would advise him to let a professional presentation bureau go over his slides. They were perfect for a breakout session, but not so much for a keynote. Too small fonts. (more…)