Monthly Archives - February 2017

Essentially of Data Wrangling

To roll out a new software product commercially irrespective of any domain in the market,  360-degree quality check with test data is mandatory.  We can correlate this with a visualized concept of a new vehicle.  After completion of vehicle manufacturing, fuel has to be injected to the engine to make it operational. Once the vehicle starts moving, all the quality checks, testing get started like brake performance, mileage, comfort etc with thousands of other factors which are decided/concluded during...

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Semi-Structured Data

Semi-structured data lies between structured and unstructured data. Data that get stored in the traditional database system or excel sheet can be denoted as structured data and organized in COLUMNS and ROWS. Unstructured data can be considered as any data or piece of information which can't be stored in Databases/RDBMS etc. Email, Facebook comments, news paper etc. are the examples of unstructured data. Semi-structured data do not follow strict data model structure and neither raw data nor typed data in...

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Why Omni-channel approach is becoming focal point for retailers

In short, we can define retailing is sales goods or services using different types channels. E-Commerce is falling under internet/electronic commerce which is one of the channel in multi-channel approaches. Business to customer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) are part of electronic retailing if carried out over internet. Due to advancement of technology, precise and appropriate customer engagement strategy is very important for retailer's business growth if e-commerce is their prime channel. Even though they have adopted multi...

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Big Data Generation and its sources

Here are the sources where we can visualized how Big data is generating today and anticipate how the entire globe sink under Oceans of Data in near future due to exponential growth of digitization. Media Media and communications outlet (article, audio, video, emails, blogs, podcasts) Machine Data generated by computers and machines generally without human intervention (Server logs, phone calls, sensors, business process logs etc). Social Digital materials created by social media like Face book, LinkedIn etc (texts, photos, videos, tweet etc) Historical Data about our environment (weather, traffic,...

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Data in Motion

The information security strategy in today's business world is important and critical. Information is nothing but data in various shape like flat file, audio, video files, multimedia etc.  The data always lays in three states. Data in Rest This state we can visualize when information or data stores in Databases (RDBMS), Hard disk, Pen drive, SD card in smart phone etc. Organizations are bound to have additional layers as defense to protect sensitive data from intruders in the event that the...

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Importance of unstructured data

In today's world,  Internet plays a major factor to generate and propagate information from various sources. Social media, Email, What'sApp, E-News Paper  etc  are playing a crucial role on circulation followed by creation of information.  These type of information often include text and multimedia contents.  These information or data methodically can't be persisted in database and it is referred as unstructured data. Due to advancement in  technology,  70-80 % growing data is unstructured and increasing significantly over structured/semi structured data....

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Hadoop Development Environment

We always talk about Big Data processing using Hadoop framework. By leveraging distributed cluster computing programming, now a days it is possible to process and analysis huge volume of data probably in exabytes or more than that. Giant cloud providers like Amazon, Microsoft Azure provides hosting as well as development environment with multi-node cluster according to hardware requirements on Pay Per Use model.  They usually charge on hourly basis. But the main concern is, to open an account a...

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