Tag Archives: Data mining

Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Hadoop, Pig and HBase for highly distributed Data Processing and Analysis

6 May

Kevin Weil, Analytics Lead at Twitter recently gave a presentation on Twitter’s use of Cassandra, Pig and HBase. Specially interesting is how Twitter uses Hadoop and Pig in their data analysis process. (via @kevinweil) Another great presentation from Tobias Ivarsson gives an overview on NoSQL: (via @thobe)

[video] – Rethink the Data Warehouse with Hadoop and Hive

12 Nov

Here is a great video explaining how Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive to build Data Warehouses and analyse their huge ammount of data. Every day Facebook gets around 4TB+ of compressed data, which is amazing and also difficult to be analysed. (via Cloudera)

[video] – The History of Business Intelligence

1 Aug

I have found a really nice video explaining Business Intelligence as a concept and highlighting the development phases of Business Intelligence through the history.