All posts by Ramesh Dontha
75 Big Data terms
My earlier article on ‘25 Big Data terms you must know to impress your date’ had a pretty decent response (at least by my standards) and there were requests to add more. Look, it is fairly easy to impress your date. Depending on the gender, all you may need is a romantic dinner and my […]
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How To Deliver Data Strategy In 4 Steps
Part 1 of this series dealt with “Data Strategy – Your Ticket To Future Success – Part 1.” We’ll now talk about “How” to deliver Data Strategy in some simple steps. Strategy is about doing the right things and tactics is about doing things right. Data Strategy is about doing the right things to distill Data […]
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Data Mining Steps
Data mining steps or phases can vary. The exact # of data mining steps involved in data mining can vary based on the practitioner, scope of the problem and how they aggregate the steps and name them. Irrespective of that, the following typical steps are involved. Defining the problem: This in my opinion is one […]
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Data Mining What Why
What is Data Mining? Simply put, Data mining is the process of sifting through large data sets to identify and describe patterns, discover and establish relationships with an intent to predict future trends based on those patterns and relationships. Why is data mining relevant now? Haven’t we been ‘mining’ data from time immemorial? Yes and […]
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Life Of A Byte
Hi, my name is Brontobyte and this is my story of how I grew up from a Byte, to Megabyte, to Gigabyte, to Brontobyte. I was born possibly in 1956 to unknown parents at an undisclosed place. All I know about my birth is that my Godfather Mr. Werner Buchholz from IBM gave me my […]
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Big Data Fire. It Was Always Raging
Unless you are hiding under a rock, you know that the Big Data fire is raging. Whole lot of people have contributed significantly to the advancement of Big Data over the years and quite a few are continuing to influence. I learn every day from these pioneers and influencers so I wanted to recognize my […]
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25 Must Know Big Data Terms
Big Data can be intimidating! If you are new to Big Data, please read ‘What is Big Data’, ‘Who coined Big Data’ to get you started. With the basic concepts under your belt, let’s focus on some key terms to impress your date or boss or family. By the way, I am putting together a much […]
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Business Intelligence & Analytics Solutions
The promise of Big Data is in analytics and how companies can derive business intelligence to help them make data-driven decisions. A data-driven culture in organizations requires investments in people, processes, and technology. Even though technology alone will not answer all questions, I have to admit that recent advances in Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics […]
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Data Mining Tutorials
Following are some really good data mining tutorials that we have curated from all around the web. Step by Step Tutorial from Tutorial Point. A PDF version is available for purchase but step by step tutorial is free on their web. Introduction to Data Mining by Dr. Kurt Thearling. Fairly comprehensive tutorial covering technical details, […]
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Data Strategy – What, Why, When, Who, Where
What is data Strategy? I’d like to use couple of statistics from IDG’s Enterprise 2016 Data & Analytics Research to start this article. As per their research, 78% of enterprises agree that collection & analysis of big data has the potential to fundamentally change the way their company does business over the next 1 to […]
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