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BDB Podcast EP 53 – Data Wrangling Made Simple with Trifacta
Join Cory and Brett as they sit down with Joe Hellerstein to explore one of the most challenging and time consuming parts of the data science process. Regardless of if you call it Data Wrangling, Cleansing or Munging […]
The What, When, & Why of Splunk SmartStore
At .Conf 2018, Splunk announced a new deployment methodology, SmartStore. The new SmartStore indexer capability allows you to use S3 API to store indexed data as remote objects. While this is extremely interesting for […]
Big Data Beard does the Spartan Sprint
At Big Data Beard, we work hard to give you the technical stories and insights that we think you want to hear about. Whether it is use cases, book reviews, videos of our podcasts, or […]
Major Moves with Hadoop: Analyzing the Cloudera & Hortonworks Merger
On the morning on October 3rd, who would have thought that the two leading Hadoop distribution companies were in the midst of finalizing one of the most shocking merges not just in the Big Data […]
BDB Podcast EP 46 – Splunk Next with Jon Rooney
Join Cory and Rob as they discuss Splunk’s newest announcements with podcast alum Jon Rooney, Vice President Product Marketing for Splunk. In this episode we dig in on Splunk Next and its components. This announcement […]
AI Powered Poop Pick-up Patrol
Usually my posts are finite…I get my idea on digital paper and put it out there for the world to see, but I wanted to do something a little different. The idea here is to […]
BDB Podcast EP 32 – Dataiku with Dr. Ken Sanford
Title: Dataiku with Dr. Ken Sanford Host: Cory Minton, Rob Hout & Kyle Prins Guest: Dr. Ken Sanford In episode 32, recorded at Spark+AI Summit in San Francisco, Cory Minton & Kyle Prins sit down with Dr. […]
Will IT Certifications Help My Career?
Are Certifications Worth the Hassle No matter what stage of your IT career you are in the question of certifications always comes up. Each time the questions is will this IT Certification help my career? […]
15 Octave Commands Every Data Scientist Must Know
Earlier this year the Big Data Beard team tackled Andrew Ng’s Machine Learning course on Coursera. In week two the course started to get hands on with Machine Learning labs. These labs were all done […]