Big Data Scientist is a person who can take structured and unstructured data points and use his formidable skills in statistics, maths, and programming to organize them. He applies all his analytical power (contextual understanding, industry knowledge, and understanding of existing assumptions) to uncover the hidden solutions for the business development.
Behavioral analytics is a recent advancement in business analytics that presents new insights into client’s behavior on e-commerce platforms, web/mobile application, online games etc. It enables the marketers to make right offers to the right customers at right time.
Business Intelligence is a set of tools and methodologies that can analyze, manage, and deliver information which is relevant to the business. It includes reporting/query tools and dashboard same as found in analytics. BI technologies provide previous, current, and upcoming views of the business operations.
Cascading is the layer for the abstraction of software that provides the higher level abstraction for Apache Hadoop and Apache Flink. It is an open source framework that is available under Apache License. It is used to allow developers to perform processing of complex data easily and quickly in JVM based languages such as Java, […]
CDR contains metadata i.e. data about data that a telecommunication company collects about phone calls such as length and time of the call. CDR analysis provides businesses the exact details about when, where, and how calls are made for billing and reporting purposes. CDR’s metadata gives information about When the calls are made (date and […]
Cassandra is distributed and open source NoSQL database management system. It is schemed to manage a large amount of distributed data over commodity servers as it provides high availability of services with no point of failure. It was developed by Facebook initially and then structured in key-value form under Apache foundation.
Biometrics is the James Bondish technology linked with analytics to identify people by one or more physical traits. For example, biometrics technology is used in face recognition, fingerprint recognition, iris recognition etc.
A relatively large unit of digital data, one Terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 Gigabytes. It has been estimated that 10 Terabytes could hold the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress, while a single TB could hold 1,000 copies of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Cell phone data has surfaced as one of the big data sources as it generates a tremendous amount of data and much of it is available for use with analytical applications.