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Top 5 Courses to Learn Python in 2018

Looking to learn Python this year? Come check out a list of the best five courses to help start your journey and get you closer to being a Python pro!

March 18, 2018

by Javin Paul

· 51,118 Views · 19 Likes

How to Test AI models: An Introduction Guide for QA

Get some simple answers to frequently asked questions regarding quality assurance within machine learning.

March 16, 2018

by Anastasiya Kazeeva

· 19,087 Views · 4 Likes

Orange: A Handy Open-Source Tool for Creating Machine Learning Models

Orange is an extremely easy-to-use, lightweight, drag-and-drop tool for building machine learning models and analyzing data. More importantly, it is open source!

March 13, 2018

by Sibanjan Das

· 16,748 Views · 12 Likes

Spring Boot 2.0 on ACID! Big Data + Spring Boot

Here is a guide to using Spring Boot 2.0 with Apache Hive LLAP ACID tables to make the most of a Big Data pipeline.

March 12, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 45,533 Views · 17 Likes

MongoDB and Data Streaming: Implementing a MongoDB Kafka Consumer

This article introduces Apache Kafka and then illustrates how to use MongoDB as a source and a destination for streamed data.

March 12, 2018

by Andrew Morgan

· 36,432 Views · 17 Likes

Apache Spark: 3 Reasons Why You Should Not Use RDDs

When it comes to building an enterprise-grade app in Spark, RDD isn't a good choice. Why? And if RDD is not a good choice, then what should we use?

March 8, 2018

by Himanshu Gupta

· 46,919 Views · 11 Likes

Deploying Elasticsearch 6.x on Azure With Terraform

Today, we will be looking at deploying a full Elasticsearch cluster using best practices end-to-end on Microsoft Azure.

March 6, 2018

by Itamar Syn-hershko

· 9,279 Views · 3 Likes

Spring Cloud Stream With Kafka

In this post, we take a look at how you can build a real-time streaming microservices application by using Spring Cloud Stream and Kafka.

March 6, 2018

by David Kiss

· 117,907 Views · 55 Likes

Logging With the Elastic Stack

It's imperative to have a system that can analyze large amounts of logs and present a singular view. Centralized logging provided by the Elastic Stack is a step in the right direction.

March 5, 2018

by Vaibhav Raizada

· 14,185 Views · 13 Likes

Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices, Methods, and Existing Solutions

Kubernetes handles containers in several computers, removing the complexity of handling distributed processing. But what's the best way to perform Kubernetes monitoring?

Updated February 23, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 19,112 Views · 4 Likes

Simple Java Program to Append to a File in HDFS

Get the code and instructions needed to build a Java program to append to a file in HDFS, using Maven as the build tool.

February 23, 2018

by Simarpreet Kaur Monga

· 18,015 Views · 4 Likes

The Tech Files: Pushing Jupyter Notebooks to Production

Learn how one company embarked upon their data science journey to incorporate recommendation algorithms into their client-facing product.

February 21, 2018

by Teja Srivastasa

· 19,730 Views · 4 Likes

How to Be a Master in Software Development

Here are some of the subjects and general topics that you should familiarize yourself with to achieve mastery in software development.

February 20, 2018

by Alexsandro Souza

· 12,677 Views · 35 Likes

Introduction to Basic Statistics Measurements

Learn about the most common statistical methods that can help make data-driven decisions and understand the fundamental concepts of statistics in a jargon-free way.

February 16, 2018

by Sunil Kappal

· 12,456 Views · 10 Likes

Apache Spark and Apache NiFi Integration (Part 2 of 2)

Let's finish off our journey of integrating Apache Spark and Apache NiFi to cover both data ingestion and running Apache Spark jobs.

February 15, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 30,261 Views · 7 Likes

What's The Most Important Part of the Open Source Ecosystem?

The community of users and contributors who share their knowledge, experience, and insights to improve collaboration, innovation, quality, and security.

February 15, 2018

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 7,262 Views · 5 Likes

Azure SQL Database vs. Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Let's look at two seemingly similar products from Microsoft: Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. We'll see how they compare and when to use which one.

February 15, 2018

by Barry Luijbregts

· 17,772 Views · 4 Likes

Machine Learning With Decision Trees

This paper shows you how to get started with machine learning by applying decision trees using Python on an established dataset.

February 14, 2018

by Alan Brown

· 13,895 Views · 6 Likes

Develop Custom Ensemble Models Using Caret in R

Here we review some different ways to create ensemble learning models and compare the accuracy of their results, seeing how each functions better as a composite.

February 13, 2018

by Sibanjan Das

· 16,784 Views · 7 Likes

Scala vs. Python for Apache Spark

When using Apache Spark for cluster computing, you'll need to choose your language. Scala has its advantages, but see why Python is catching up fast.

February 13, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 32,172 Views · 13 Likes

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