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Progress for big data in Kubernetes

O'Reilly Media - Data

It has become much more feasible to run high-performance data platforms directly inside Kubernetes. That’s great to have because you can use that storage platform to build a data fabric that extends from your on-premises systems into multiple cloud systems to get access to data at a performance level and with an API that you want.

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Identifying budding big data talent in your company

O'Reilly Media - Data

Big data is often called one of the most important skill sets in the 21st century, and it’s experiencing enormous demand in the job market. Hiring data scientists and other big data professionals is a major challenge for large enterprises, leading many to shift their efforts to training existing staff. Statistics.

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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

The deployment of big data tools is being held back by the lack of standards in a number of growth areas. Technologies for streaming, storing, and querying big data have matured to the point where the computer industry can usefully establish standards. The main standard with some applicability to big data is ANSI SQL.

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EarthOptics helps farmers look deep into the soil for big data insights

TechCrunch

Farming sustainably and efficiently has gone from a big tractor problem to a big data problem over the last few decades, and startup EarthOptics believes the next frontier of precision agriculture lies deep in the soil. Drive it along the fields and it goes only as deep as it needs to.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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Comparing production-grade NLP libraries: Accuracy, performance, and scalability

O'Reilly Media - Data

A comparison of the accuracy and performance of Spark-NLP vs. spaCy, and some use case recommendations. In the previous two parts, we walked through the code for training tokenization and part-of-speech models, running them on a benchmark data set, and evaluating the results. Performance. Runtime performance comparison.

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Data engineers vs. data scientists

O'Reilly Media - Data

It’s important to understand the differences between a data engineer and a data scientist. Misunderstanding or not knowing these differences are making teams fail or underperform with big data. I think some of these misconceptions come from the diagrams that are used to describe data scientists and data engineers.