Roaring Elephant

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In this episode, we welcome back John Mertic one more time. It was quite obvious that John had lots more to talk about at the end of our last interview with him. ODPi has recently reinvented itself, moving away from a strict distribution standards body towards data governance and reference specifications. Continue reading “Episode 97 – ODPi: A new world for data governance”

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In this edition of Roaring news, Ward Bekker returns to discuss what is happening in the world of Big Data. Ward brings news on GPUs in supercomputers and how Big Data could be wrong about you. Dave and Jhon found articles on Big data growth visualizations and GDPR. Continue reading “Episode 96 – Roaring news”

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Since both Dave and Jhon were not able to attend the Dataworks Summit in San Jose a couple of weeks ago, we have a guest, Ward Bekker, who was happy to join and educate us on the subject. Continue reading “Episode 95 – DataWorks Summit in San Jose with Ward Bekker”

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I this weeks edition of Roaring Big Data News, Dave talks about modernizing Hadoop and a billion java errors. Jhon has an article on improving your learning data sets. We finish with a discussion about the newly released HDP 2.6.5 with an emphasis on the deprecation notices and Yarn Containers. Continue reading “Episode 94 – Roaring news”