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Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics
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Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics

by Bill Franks
April 2012
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
8h 5m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics

Preface

You receive an e-mail. It contains an offer for a complete personal computer system. It seems like the retailer read your mind since you were exploring computers on their web site just a few hours prior. … 

As you drive to the store to buy the computer bundle, you get an offer for a discounted coffee from the coffee shop you are getting ready to drive past. It says that since you’re in the area, you can get 10% off if you stop by in the next 20 minutes. … 

As you drink your coffee, you receive an apology from the manufacturer of a product that you complained about yesterday on your Facebook page, as well as on the company’s web site. … 

Finally, once you get back home, you receive notice of a special armor upgrade available for purchase in your favorite online video game. It is just what is needed to get past some spots you’ve been struggling with. … 

Sound crazy? Are these things that can only happen in the distant future? No. All of these scenarios are possible today! Big data. Advanced analytics. Big data analytics. It seems you can’t escape such terms today. Everywhere you turn people are discussing, writing about, and promoting big data and advanced analytics. Well, you can now add this book to the discussion.

What is real and what is hype? Such attention can lead one to the suspicion that perhaps the analysis of big data is something that is more hype than substance. While there has been a lot of hype over the past few years, the reality is that we are in a transformative ...

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