One of the most significant parts of any data-driven application is data quality assessment. Before you start using your data, you must understand how good - or bad - it is. This is why data analysis and data cleaning activities are performed - … Read more
Big Data
Big Data Analyst is specialized in collecting and processing big data to get useful information for the business and the various business units.
The skills required to a Big Data Analyst include knowledge in using database querying languages and big data analytics software, and a good understanding of data mining and extraction techniques, to provide companies with useful information.
This information can be used to analyze the market situation, the competitors and the customer's behavior, and is useful for marketing professionals and for those who are responsible for customer experience strategies.
Big Data Analysts are highly skilled in using data analysis software, a series of tools to store and analyze Big Data, so s/he's able to get and provide information to improve the activity of his company.
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8 Techniques for Efficient Data Cleaning
Data is an essential part of data analytics, data security, and data science. That’s obvious. Sometimes, however, that data can get a little dirty. No, not like in a gangster film. More like where suddenly we are having to deal with ‘dirty data’ … Read more
5 Ways To Grow Your Business Through Data Monetization
Earning revenue through big data is a fast-growing industry that all businesses need to be a part of. With more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, a good data monetization strategy is crucial for any business, including those … Read more
7 Key Differences Between Data Analytics and Data Mining
With every second we spend online, mountains of data is generated. For every social media post, Google search, and link clicked, there is a way in which our activity can be collected for data. Experts within the data science field can utilize this, … Read more
5 Rules of Engagement When it Comes to Data Visualization
So you’ve been out, you’ve conducted the surveys, you’ve collected a giant pot of data that unequivocally demonstrates your position and now it’s time to present. How do you do it? Well you could just dump the raw spreadsheet at the desk of your … Read more
What Are the Main Areas of Development for a Data Analyst’s Career?
Data analysts manipulate data and use it to help organisations make wise business decisions. They gather information from the data regarding specific aspects, interpret, analyse and share their findings with other stakeholders in the organisation … Read more
Logging in Python: a broad, gentle introduction
Not all data scientists have a computer science background - I received my bachelor’s degree in Statistics, for example. As I moved into data, I noticed that I was good at scripting, but was not able to create a ‘production-quality’ code. A … Read more
Vibrational energy: big data and small devices
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Exploring the universe with project HelloExoWorld
Humans are capable of walking on the moon. We can operate an International Space Station, and sending rovers onto the surface of Mars. We can launch hundreds of satellites into the unknown to gather data. We explore the universe, both personally and … Read more
NewSQL: overcoming limitations of relational and NoSQL databases
Technologies behind databases have never been so variegated as today. After the rise of relational SQL-based databases, new needs have emerged, with the consequences of fostering a plethora of new database models, e.g. the NoSQL ones. Today, new … Read more
Maps in a 3D world
This article is an overview of GIS applied to the 3D field. GIS involves a lot of knowledge from different disciplines. As developers we have a lot of ways to use and combine these data sources. Sometimes I feel GIS is not so commonly known among … Read more
Light up the Spark in catalyst by avoiding UDF
We often talk about cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, but just as frequently we forget all the software architecture that is behind these projects and how the data is treated, manipulated and managed. The databases are in … Read more
Effective Spark for Neophytes
Starting to work in the processing of big data could be unsettling even for a developer who has solid foundations and experience in areas more related to "consumer" products. The software tools and computational systems for data science, in fact, … Read more
Data Gathering and Knowledge Management for Smart Cities in Snap4City Platform
Imagine you are in the monitoring and control room of your city, where all relevant data coming from sensors, mobile devices, social media streams, IoT devices, vehicles and so on are displayed on multifunctional dashboards. Imagine you can read on … Read more
IOT Development: the Snap4City way
During the last decade, application development has extended its borders far and beyond the classical web application paradigm. In particular, two main tendencies arose, namely Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things. Delivering applications on … Read more
SELECT for Cities contest: solve challenges and create value for citizens
The SELECT for Cities project was conceived as a competition between companies operating in the Smart Cities sector and the Internet of Things (IoT), with the aim of identifying innovative solutions to specific problems in European cities. This is a … Read more
The Snap4City API: a tool for smart city developers
Integrated platforms and frameworks are the standard solution to the development, test and deployment of applications within complex environments: for example, no one today would program from scratch a neural network while there are plenty of … Read more
How Snap4City can bring your vision of a Smart City to reality
Interoperability is such a crucial term when your mind gets enlightened with your smartest idea. You start thinking how to make it work and the more advanced and complex your project, the more you start realising that problems should be tackled one … Read more
The integration between data and devices: the Snap4City solution
It is commonly understood that we are living in a “data era”: in the past we had the “commodity era”, when raw materials were the basis of economies and the only goods to be commercialized, next the “energy era”, when industrial productions emerged … Read more
Snap4City Dashboards: Overlook Your City
As we know from the article on sentient cities, Snap4City is an open-source, standard-based, data-driven, service-oriented and user-centric platform, enabling large-scale co-creation of applications and IoT/IoE services. As the name suggests, it … Read more