Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

MapReduce is still not very mature. There aren’t many people who know how to use it well, how to configure it, or how to do the coding required.

Collaborative filtering is similar in purpose to an affinity analysis. Like affinity analysis, collaborative filtering is used to identify what a given customer might be interested in, based on what other “similar” customers are interested in. Collaborative filtering is used today by web sites across the globe, and it is a fairly fast, robust way t

Ironically, one of the best times to surpass the competition is during bad times. While the competition is hunkering down, a company can invest in innovation and surpass them.

There are a few cases, such as Linux and Apache, where an open-source toolset has become a fully accepted option, if not a leader, within the space that it plays.

A decrease in total mailings A reduction in total catalog promotions pages A materially significant increase in total revenues

which was the move toward relational database management systems. The relational database management system (RDBMS) started to not only become popular, but to become more scalable and more widely adopted. Today an RDBMS is the standard for managing data, and it’s difficult to find a mainframe that’s in heavy use for the purposes of analysis.

A grid configuration can help both cost and performance. It falls into the classification of “high-performance computing.”

RFID data enables new analytics for retailers and manufacturers in areas from stock levels, to fraud, to employee performance.

several hundred product categories. Many of the category models are generated in a commodity model fashion.