Analytics in a Box
Instead of selling data warehouse, analytics tools, reporting tools and analytics modeling services, data companies should build analytics as a product with industry level customization and sell the product. The product should have all the layers: data, analytics and reporting. In fact it will become even more attractive if the hardware is also clubbed into the offering.… Continue reading
Parallel Computing for Analytics
Distributed file systems have sort of solved the problem of elastically storing data in several systems and search and retrieving them parallelly. But some of the problems related to the speed of analytics on structured data still remains. Most of the analytics algorithms have parallel implementations, but I haven’t come across a good solution that can be used scalably on a series of commodity servers to do complex analytics without user side coding. … Continue reading