“Mahout” is a Hindi term for a person who rides an elephant. The elephant, in this case, is Hadoop — and Mahout is one of the many projects that can sit on top of Hadoop, although you do not always ...

WELLESLEY HILLS, Mass., June 8 — Applying machine learning to Big Data in a Hadoop environment is something all organizations want to do well but few can actually achieve. At this year’s Hadoop Summit ...

In the run up to next week’s Hadoop confab in Silicon Valley, vendors are releasing a flock of automation and other tools aimed at beefing up the mainstream data processing framework. Among them is an ...

Where has the hunt for Hadoop simplification taken Big Data this year? The BigDataNYC event will also explore the industry expectations driving machine learning developments and the possible positive ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

When you start a revolution, you need to go public before the next revolution starts. Hadoop used to be the “revolutionary” technology behind the “big data” revolution but it has now been buried deep ...

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Machine learning is a branch of computer science that teaches computers to 'learn' patterns from data instead of being programmed step by step. Think of it like this: instead of telling a computer ...