2012 Big Data Interesting Milestones

2012 was a fantastic year in terms of Big Data and Cloud Adoption. Massive Big Data focus and Products focussed on Big Data Analytics. Fortunately the world did not end as per Mayan Prediction.

 

How Traditional Players catch up in Big Data Space

• Traditional RDBMS Vendors MSSQL, ORACLE offering their own NOSQL Solutions, Hadoop Connectors to leverage the power of Hadoop and enhance their BI offerings
• IBM BigInsights Hadoop based Analytics Platform, Informatica and Microstrategy enhanced their Big Data Capabilities this year by providing integration with Hadoop Ecosystem
• Acquire Hadoop based Startups to catch up with Big Analytics

Real Time Analytics Trend in 2012 

• Cloudera launched Impala platform to provide Real Time Analytics
• Real Time Analytics based on Twitter Storm

Big Data Fifth Elephant Conference provided good insight on Big Data Use Cases and Adoption rates

Big Data Products

• Good Read - Big Data - Promising Startups
• Amazon Announced Redshift DataWarehousing as a service
• Google Launched BigQuery, Cloud Business Intelligence Service for Big Data

Indian Startups Working on Big Data / Leveraging Hadoop Ecosystem for Analytics

• Inmobi
• Qubole
• Flipkart

2013 Focus 

• Big Data Analytics Adoption across Industries (Verticals)
• Increased Implementation / Adoption of Big Data Products
• Columnar databases gaining more focus (Vertica, H-Store)
• Databases to watch out in 2013 - Hadapt (HadoopDB), H-Store(OLTP), F1(Google Distributed RDBMS) 

Interesting Big Data Reads

• Classifying Today’s “Big Data Innovators”
• The future is now: 10 startups leading the way in ‘big data’
• Major Data Warehousing Events of 2012 (and Predictions for 2013)

Inspiring Tweet to end the post



Happy Learning!!!

  

Python Basics

Two Coursera classes (An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python, Learn to Program: The Fundamentals) provide very good python beginner learning materials. Python is a Interpreted Language

Quick Summary and Python Notes

• Guido van Rossum is author of python, Good Wikipedia read about him in link  
• Python Practice Book
• Notes from Advaced Python Workshop
• Online Editor available at CodeSkulptor
• Also check Very Good Question Is Python Interpreted or Compiled?
• Good Book to Get Started - A Byte of Python -Swarooph
• Learning Python the hard way

Basic Examples and beginner notes posted based on course notes. All Code can be tried in CodeSkulptor.  There are a few syntax differences but this is similar to C programming language.

Example1 - Arithmetic Expressions

• Basic Arithmetic Expressions
• Variables, Assignments, Sample Exercise in link

All Scripts can be run in FireFox / Chrome in CodeSkulptor (Not in IE)

Example 2 - Working with Functions
Built In functions - max, abs

Example 3 - Custom Functions

• Example function to sum up two numbers

Example 4 - If Statement - Conditons , Else If and Else Operator

Example 5 - For Loop - Iteration

Example 6 - While Loop iteration

Happy Learning!!!

Tool Developer Notes

Tip #1 - Sending Email on Error using Log4NET

Tip#2 - Append XML Node in C#

Before Code Execution

Post Code Execution

using System;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace ExampleCode
{
    public class ExampleCode
    {
        static void Main()
        {

            //Open XML
            XmlDocument xmlPreCountFileData = new XmlDocument();
            xmlPreCountFileData.Load("E:\\abc.xml");
            XmlElement elmXML = xmlPreCountFileData.CreateElement("Node");

            //Append Node
            //Append Existing XML Node
            string xmlDataElement = @"<A>40</A>";

            elmXML.InnerXml = xmlDataElement;
            xmlPreCountFileData.DocumentElement.AppendChild(elmXML);
            xmlPreCountFileData.Save("E:\\abc.xml");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}



Tip #3 - Thread Enhancements in .NET 4.0

Threading made easy in .NET 4.0
C# Mulththreading Improvements in .NET 4.0
.NET 4.0 and System.Threading.Tasks


Happy Learning!!!