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Posts Tagged ‘Big Data’

How to Connect Hortonworks Hive from Qlikview with ODBC driver

As with most BI tools, QlikView can use Apache Hive (via ODBC connection) as the SQL access to data in Hadoop. Here we are going to talk about qlikview how to connect Hortonworks Hive via ODBC. Prerequisites 1.Those are versions of each component we installed in Hortonworks Hue HDP Hadoop Hive-Hcatalog Ambari HBase Hortonworks ODBC […]

Perficient Acquires Market Street to Expand Analytics Expertise

We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Market Street Solutions, a firm specializing in the development, implementation, integration and support of big data, analytics and financial performance management solutions. Market Street is a fantastic addition to the Perficient team, with a great reputation, customer-centric mentality, and solid client roster, positioning Perficient for continued growth in […]

Why Clinical Trial Data Isn’t Enough

  Life sciences organizations are in the business of developing drugs and medical devices. Hitting key milestones and moving trials to the next phase has always been a priority. Throughout this entire process, the collection and analysis of clinical and safety data is essential in taking products to subsequent stages, and ultimately getting them approved […]

Precision Medicine: A Highlight At Dreamforce 2015

  As many of you know, Perficient has a practice devoted to Salesforce.com solutions. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a bunch of my colleagues are at this year’s Dreamforce event and furiously blogging about what they’re hearing. One of the posts that caught my attention was from Mike Porter, who sat in Dr. […]

#DF15: Translating A Trillion Data Points Into Insights

Dr. Atul Butte of UCSF gave a keynote address at Dreamforce today on the value we can gain from big data. The session abstract: There is an urgent need to take advantage of our vast new understanding of human genetics and computer technology to improve health and make the practice of medicine more precise. Dr. […]

Azure: Did You Know? Azure Data Factory

One of Azure’s ever-increasing number of new data platform services, Azure Data Factory provides the ability to execute and orchestrate Big Data workflows. Azure Data Factory allows you to manage and produce information by offering an easy way to create, orchestrate, and monitor data pipelines.  Activities are combined into Pipelines, and these pipelines are used […]

Big Data Meets Fantasy Football!

Summer is almost behind us and fall is starting to turn the leaves brown and the air crisp and if you are anything like me, this means one thing – Fantasy Football time is here!! With the season starting this week, all fantasy players have their rosters set and leagues ready to go. Can you […]

3 Ways to Load Data From HDFS to HBase

Apache HBase™ is the Hadoop database: a distributed, scalable, big data store. If you are importing into a new table, you can bypass the HBase API and write your content directly to the filesystem, formatted into HBase data files (HFiles). Your import will run much faster. There are several ways to load data from HDFS to HBase. I […]

A Big Data Play for Sports Fans

Data visualization and prediction tools are becoming more and more consumable, so that we’re seeing use cases that reach beyond complex business scenarios into the arena of sports. As fans gear up for fantasy football season, there’s a new array of data analysis and visualization tools to help optimize draft picks or lineups. Tools were […]

Digital Transformation with IBM Bluemix

Every day at Perficient, we help clients develop new ways of interacting with customers, build contextual understanding in their decision making, and create new ways of business operations as a Smarter Process Practice. In this article, I am going to describe a couple of data-related challenges businesses are facing as they embark on their digital transformation […]

SparkR for Data Scientists

Although the title Data Scientist is not mentioned as often as other IT job titles, it has been in the IT world for a while and is becoming more important with the popularity of the Internet and eCommerce. What kind of skills should a data scientist have? It could be a long list, but I […]

Leverage data to improve compliance like the SEC and FINRA

The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) is responsible for protecting retail investors and assessing market-wide risks, but now is shifting its attention also toward figuring out how to leverage data analytics to identify potential for illegal trading activities, conflicts of interest or other misconduct, according to a recent article by ThinkAdvisor, Compliance Data Analytics: Do […]

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