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Data Analytics Blog

Welcome to our Data Analytics blog intended for CIOs, IT managers and analysts!

Stay tuned to find the articles that are supported by our experience in data analytics services. Here, you will find a wide variety of topics in data analysis: predictive, prescriptive analytics and machine learning are just a few examples. You shouldn’t be code-savvy, as our blog is business-oriented.

Demand Forecasting Using Traditional and Contemporary Data Science

Data Analytics & BI, Data Science

Demand Forecasting Using Traditional and Contemporary Data Science

Dissatisfied with your demand forecasts? Instead of giving up on them completely, try reconsidering the methods you use. Here, we describe the approaches that will definitely work: traditional and contemporary data science.

By Irene Mikhailouskaya (Makaranka)

Your Guide to Data Quality Management

Data Analytics & BI

Your Guide to Data Quality Management

Setting up data quality management seems to be a blurry task? We show what a well-organized process looks like and enumerate the required tools. These best practices will help you improve the quality of your data and, ultimately, your decisions.

By Irene Mikhailouskaya (Makaranka)

Cassandra vs. HBase: twins or just strangers with similar looks?

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Cassandra vs. HBase: twins or just strangers with similar looks?

Similar at first glance, Cassandra and HBase actually are quite different in terms of architecture, performance and data models. What are these differences, and how do they influence the tasks that HBase and Cassandra perform? It’s all here.

Cassandra Performance: The Most Comprehensive Overview You’ll Ever See

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Cassandra Performance: The Most Comprehensive Overview You’ll Ever See

Is it really true that Apache Cassandra performance is amazing? Explore Cassandra's data modeling, partitioning, denormalization, write and read performance and decide for yourself.

Alternative Approaches to Implementing Your Data Lake

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Alternative Approaches to Implementing Your Data Lake

We look at different approaches to data lake design and implementation and contemplate if there exists a preferred technology among the available stack.

By Irene Mikhailouskaya (Makaranka)

How Big Data Influences Your IoT Solution

Internet of Things, Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

How Big Data Influences Your IoT Solution

We look at the specifics of IoT big data, as well as describe what important things you should consider prior to designing and implementing IoT data storage and analysis.

Dirty, clean or cleanish: what’s the quality of your big data?

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Dirty, clean or cleanish: what’s the quality of your big data?

When it comes to data quality, big data can be somewhat deceptive. See what exactly quality big data is, how you can get it and what cacao has to do with all this.

Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Apache Cassandra vs. Hadoop Distributed File System: When Each is Better

Our big data consultants compare Apache Cassandra against Hadoop Distributed File System and describe their key functional differences. Find out which of the two is a better choice for your project and which one shows better performance.

Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI, Information Security

Buried under big data: security issues, challenges, concerns

Big data security concerns are the ones to beware of or else your big data ship can sink. Learn the key big data security challenges to never let that happen.

Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems

Unlike challenges, big data problems are conceptual and have a much deeper nature. What are they and do they have the power to threaten your business? Find out here.

IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications

Internet of Things, Data Analytics & BI, Big Data

IoT and Big Data: Challenges and Applications

IoT generates volumes of big data which can be applicable to achieve progress in a number of sectors. However, there are specific features in IoT big data collecting, processing and applying which need to be considered in IoT development.

By Alex Grizhnevich

The ‘Scary’ Seven: big data challenges and ways to solve them

Big Data, Data Analytics & BI

The ‘Scary’ Seven: big data challenges and ways to solve them

Big data can drive your company to success, but first you’ll need to deal with 7 major big data challenges. Find out what they are and how to solve them.