Friday 15 April 2016

Are you in the age of Aristotle presently?



In Aristotle’s age everybody inquires about the cause behind every happening and that is exactly what the data driven world does today. To identify the cause behind low sales figures of your company or the low revenue generation, get with the Aristotles of today’s world in the realm of data. These books may help you through.

Wednesday 13 April 2016

Ways to Overcome Barriers Associated With IoT Data

Things look bright for data scientists and big data analysts before the dawn of the IoT or the Internet of Things, which is expected to yield unforeseen amounts of data from networked devices and sensors that create real-time data that is unstructured. Data architecture is also set to undergo a sea change in order to deal with these developments and properly trained data scientists with the ability to properly leverage this data will be in great demand.



In order to overcome the obstacle of barriers related to data as in relation to the adoption of IoT we may contemplate the following measures:

•    Rethinking Data and IT Infrastructures

The data analytics of IoT will rest ultimately on superior IT infrastructures like clusters of servers, computing based on the cloud, data centers amongst other things. Existing networks are already near the point of being exhausted and the vast amounts of increased data will only serve to put additional pressure on these networks and much more power will be needed in order to process the same properly.

Organization and aggregation of data is a pre-requisite for applying analytics.

Upgrades are an essential part of this new data architecture and technologies like Hadoop with its impressive combination of processing parallel and clusters of servers that are distributed will assume greater importance along with the people who have the technical expertise to set things up and negotiate with some of the more tricky aspects of the architecture.

Chances are that data centers will take the distributed approach path with mini-centers of tiered clusters that pull the data and subsequently send it to other clusters that process the data. This will undoubtedly affect storage of data in addition to backup and bandwidth.

•    Data that is of Good Quality and Can Be Acted Upon

The key issue will be to find the information that is capable of being acted upon and can make a meaningful and real change and the situation will likely arise where a company will find itself capable of collecting data that they do not have any use for as not all of the new data will be useful. Management of such actionable data will be in the purview of business analysts and data scientists.

•    NoSQL databases will in all likelihood replace RDBMSs

Much if not exactly most of the unstructured data available from the Internet of Things may not easily be sorted into a number of tables, a main feature of traditional relational database management systems and they likely to be replaced by NoSQL databases like MongoDV, Couchbase and the like as they provide the flexibility needed by IoT data scientists in order to organize data in a manner that makes it usable.

•    A Software Stack is needed to be chosen in order to preprocess and analyze IoT Data

After the organization and collection of massive amounts of such data, businesses are in need to have the proper plan and the software stack necessary to analyze the data, in place. There is a dire need of choosing the correct software stack and the accompanying database which is able to deal with the type and scale of the data at hand.

A data professional needs to undergo suitable Big data training that will get him up and ready for all of the challenging and exciting tasks that await him in his Big Data adventure.