The News: Last week, TIBCO Spotfire announced its partnership with Cloudera, by developing a certified connector through the Cloudera Accelerator Program. With the proliferation of data in organizational settings, companies are choosing Cloudera to solve the problem...
Getting help was my first real discomfort working with R. Having worked with SAS for most of my career, when I had a questions, I followed the steps below: Ask a coworker. Go to the printed or online manual. Call the SAS helpdesk. Because you pay quite a bit for SAS,...
Seems like everyone’s agog about the national collegiate football championships in Dallas. The high-energy enthusiasm for the Ohio State Buckeyes and University of Oregon Ducks made me think of the power of visualization. (Yes, really.) After all, it’s one of the most...
Data discovery has become a big deal to organizations of all sizes, and we know why. We review the reasons and the value that data discovery adds to the search for business insight. Why Is Data Discovery a Big Deal? Because it’s one solution to a very big, Big Data...
In our previous post, we described what business users could accomplish during data discovery, selection and analysis. We used the TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau Desktop and Hortonworks Platform tools to show how business users can build serious data scientist chops without...