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A round-up of business intelligence, IoT and data articles across the Internet.
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New business intelligence tool uses infographics to open up data - BetaNews

New business intelligence tool uses infographics to open up data - BetaNews | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
IT Business Edge
New business intelligence tool uses infographics to open up data
BetaNews
Business intelligence is all about making dry figures accessible and useful to managers and others within an enterprise.
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Definitely goes on the list of something download and play with.

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Hadoop Tutorial: How to Use Excel 2013 to Analyze Hadoop Data

Hadoop Tutorial: How to Use Excel 2013 to Analyze Hadoop Data | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
This Hadoop tutorial shows how to use Microsoft Excel 2013 to access Hadoop data, and then analyze the data using the Excel Power View feature.
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This is so cool.

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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and ROLAP – Part 2

Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and ROLAP – Part 2 | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) and ROLAP – Part 2. PDW 2012. As promised in my previous post about ROLAP on PDW, here are some more tips, tricks and recommendation for using SSAS in ROLAP mode on a PDW ...
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Has a link to part 1 and I can honestly say that I too have seen almost unbelievable ROLAP performance on PDW 2012

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April 22, 2014 11:06 PM
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Build vs. Buy a Healthcare Enterprise Data Warehouse

Build vs. Buy a Healthcare Enterprise Data Warehouse | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Debating between building vs. buying your organization's healthcare data warehouse? If so, here's an objective view at your best option...
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Wow, this is a great article, and not just applicable to Healthcare

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Extracting Business Intelligence from Social Media Dealing with Reluctant Sources - B-EYE-Network

Extracting Business Intelligence from Social Media Dealing with Reluctant Sources - B-EYE-Network | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Extracting Business Intelligence from Social Media Dealing with Reluctant Sources B-EYE-Network But these days the field takes on significant new challenges as business intelligence, which is at the heart of research, increasingly involves not just...
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Really interesting article but not sure of the business value here.

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April 22, 2014 12:44 PM
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How To Write A Simple Node.js/MongoDB Web Service for an iOS App | Ray Wenderlich

How To Write A Simple Node.js/MongoDB Web Service for an iOS App | Ray Wenderlich | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Learn how to create a simple Node.js and MongoDB web service for an iOS app in this tutorial.
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Have some mobile app dev buddies that will really dig this.

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April 22, 2014 12:39 PM
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ForbesLindesay/Building a MongoDB GUI.md

- Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. (Building a MongoDB GUI http://t.co/mV1SG5uB9z by the team at @redgate)
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Cool

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April 22, 2014 12:33 PM
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Statistics with R for newbies - YouTube

Statistics with R for newbies Content 1. Working with R - data management, opening data 2. Plots - basic plots 3. Standard Regression (where DV is continuous...
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Great little collection of tutorial videos for R

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April 22, 2014 11:51 AM
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Hortonworks Adds Cascading For Big Data App Development - InformationWeek

Hortonworks Adds Cascading For Big Data App Development - InformationWeek | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hortonworks Adds Cascading For Big Data App Development InformationWeek Hortonworks wants to make it easier to build big data applications, so on Monday it announced that it will add software and support for the popular Cascading app-development...
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Further evidence of abstraction away from pure Hadoop programming.  Good for devs.

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Power BI - Getting Started Guide - SharePoint Online for enterprises

Power BI - Getting Started Guide - SharePoint Online for enterprises | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Abstract: The growth of data increases each day, as does the need for self-service business intelligence that can turn data into decision-ready insights. But too often, the tools (Here is your Guide to getting started with Power BI for Office 365!
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Really a lot more than a "getting started guide".

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April 21, 2014 4:09 PM
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16 resources to learn and understand Hadoop

16 resources to learn and understand Hadoop | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Enjoy the reading and learning. Add your own suggestions in the comment section.


The Hadoop Ecosystem by Datameer
Tutorials

Free videos - MapR Academia
Udacity course
Hortonworks Sandbox
Hadoop Ecosystem
Running Hadoop Map-Reduce
Hadoop Screencasts
Reza Shiftehfar's blog I
Reza Shiftehfar's blog II
Reza Shiftehfar's blog III
Reza Shiftehfar's blog IV
Reza Shiftehfar's blog V
Reza Shiftehfar's blog VI
Reza Shiftehfar's blog VII
Deploying Storm on Hadoop for Advertising Analysis
Hadoop classes by Cloudera
EMC classes: Big Data, Analytics, Data Science
Simulated Hadoop

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Machine Learning in Parallel with Support Vector Machines, Generalized Linear Models, and Adaptive Boosting
The Growth of Hadoop from 2006 to 2014
From the trenches: 360-degree data science
17 short tutorials all data scientists should read (and practice)
10 types of data scientists
66 job interview questions for data scientists
Data Science Certification
Update about our Data Science Apprenticeship
Our…

Via Sathya Pandalai
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Very nice jumping-off point for Hadoop jimmies.

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April 21, 2014 9:49 AM
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Inside zDoop, a New Hadoop Distro for IBM's Mainframe - Datanami

Inside zDoop, a New Hadoop Distro for IBM's Mainframe - Datanami | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
IBM and its partner Veristorm are working to merge the worlds of big data and Big Iron with zDoop, a new offering unveiled last week that offers Apache Hadoop running in the mainframe's Linux environment.
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I still find it odd in putting Hadoop on a mainframe given that Hadoop's original value prop was massively parallel processing on commodity hardware, but I guess if that is where the data is, it makes some amount of sense.

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April 18, 2014 10:26 AM
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Oil and Gas Does Hadoop

Oil and Gas Does Hadoop | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
When Hadoop is integrated with modern oil and gas operations, it reduces health and safety risks while improving margins.
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Interesting insights into the use of big data in energy industry.

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April 23, 2014 4:48 PM
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Data Governance Required For Healthcare Data Warehouse - InformationWeek

Data Governance Required For Healthcare Data Warehouse - InformationWeek | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Data Governance Required For Healthcare Data Warehouse
InformationWeek
For decades, the data OhioHealth staff collected resided in silos spread across its 10 hospitals and countless departments.
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Good insights into a topic that is oft forgotten, you have to bring the business in or BI projects will fail.

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April 23, 2014 8:50 AM
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A Non-Geek’s Big Data Playbook

A Non-Geek’s Big Data Playbook | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
RT @SASanalytics: A Non-Geek’s Big Data Playbook http://t.co/xUAePEGi8K #Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse
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Great overview of how to integrate Hadoop with your EDW

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April 22, 2014 11:10 PM
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When Salesforce Analytics May Not Be Enough | Blue Hill Research

When Salesforce Analytics May Not Be Enough | Blue Hill Research | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
The #analytics limitations of #salesforce. How to get more #context from your data @QlikView @microstrategy. #BI http://t.co/rfuRxqEvhg
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I have to say, it is refreshing to see a company admit to its limitations.

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April 22, 2014 11:03 PM
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Big Data & Brews Video Explains How Pivotal’s Hadoop Distribution Is Different | Pivotal P.O.V.

Big Data & Brews Video Explains How Pivotal’s Hadoop Distribution Is Different | Pivotal P.O.V. | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
RT @BigDataBlogs Big Data & Brews Video Explains How Pivotal’s Hadoop Distribution Is Different http://t.co/C7vPbcLLgn via @BigDataNetwork
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OK, this is a shameless commercial plug, but you gotta appreciate the concept.

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April 22, 2014 12:59 PM
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PEM: RoboMongo, the ultimate graphic admin tool for MongoDB and Meteor

PEM: RoboMongo, the ultimate graphic admin tool for MongoDB and Meteor | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Robomongo is a graphic admin tool for MongoDB. Discover how to use it with Meteor.
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If you don't want to build your own.

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April 22, 2014 12:41 PM
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Cisco launches Hadoop-based security tool to defend networks from cyber attacks

Cisco launches Hadoop-based security tool to defend networks from cyber attacks | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Managed Threat Defense uses Hadoop to apply predictive analytics to network traffic Source: General Security News | Hackerstorm.co.uk News http://ift.tt/1nmbQBM April 22, 2014 at 06:09PM via \hack\ (Cisco launches Hadoop-based security tool to defend...
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This is really nifty, wonder how well it works.

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April 22, 2014 12:36 PM
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Cheat Sheets for Data Scientists

Cheat Sheets for Data Scientists | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
a compilation of cheat sheets for Data Scientists   (Cheat Sheets for Data Scientists: R #rstats, #Python, #SQL, HiveQL, and more http://t.co/aXO10vThaJ)...
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Funny and useful.

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April 22, 2014 11:54 AM
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How To Get Started with Cascading and Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform - Hortonworks

How To Get Started with Cascading and Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform - Hortonworks | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Hadoop Tutorial for getting started developing Hadoop with Cascading and Hortonworks Data Platform (How To Get Started with Cascading and Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform http://t.co/MHNklQHclt)...
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Hello World for Cascading on Hortonworks.

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April 22, 2014 11:49 AM
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SQL Server 2014. Benefits of upgrading from SQL Server 2005 ...

SQL Server 2014. Benefits of upgrading from SQL Server 2005 ... | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Blog about BI, BIG Data and SQL Server in Canada. We focus on news from Microsoft and the industry, SQL Server product information, upcoming events and customer stories.
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Condensed list of feature enhancements for SQL 2005, 2008 and 2012 versus 2014

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April 21, 2014 4:11 PM
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Big data vendors should stop dissing data warehouse systems

Big data vendors should stop dissing data warehouse systems | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Wayne Eckerson outlines a conceptual architecture of analytical ecosystems, depicting the important role of data warehouse systems -- and says he's tired of data warehouse bashing.

Via Thomas Faltin
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Here, here! Truly, the argument is getting tiring.

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April 21, 2014 4:00 PM
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Analytics Trends | Deloitte Featured Service - United States

Analytics Trends | Deloitte Featured Service - United States | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Did #BigData kill the enterprise data warehouse? #2014AnalyticsTrends http://t.co/Q8UXgpyA2n http://t.co/0WddBvAzkp
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A better title would have been "How not to actually answer anything"

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Putting the power of Big Data into the hands of everyone

Putting the power of Big Data into the hands of everyone | Business Intelligence Insights | Scoop.it
Whether your business is small, medium or large, now there’s a way you
can reap the benefits of Big Data quickly and easily.
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This is about HP's version of Microsoft's PDW.

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