Big Data Analytics: A Practical Guide for Managers by Kim H. Pries,Robert Dunnigan

By Kim H. Pries,Robert Dunnigan

With this e-book, managers and determination makers are given the instruments to make extra expert judgements approximately gigantic information procuring tasks. Big facts Analytics: a realistic consultant for Managers not just offers descriptions of universal instruments, but additionally surveys many of the items and proprietors that provide the large info market.

Comparing and contrasting the differing kinds of research more often than not performed with great info, this available reference provides uncomplicated factors of the final workings of massive info instruments. rather than spending time on how you can set up particular applications, it makes a speciality of the explanations WHY readers might set up a given package.

The e-book offers authoritative information on a number instruments, together with open resource and proprietary platforms. It info the strengths and weaknesses of incorporating titanic information research into decision-making and explains the best way to leverage the strengths whereas mitigating the weaknesses.



  • Describes the advantages of disbursed computing in easy terms

  • Includes massive vendor/tool fabric, in particular for open resource decisions

  • Covers well-known software program programs, together with Hadoop and Oracle Endeca

  • Examines GIS and desktop studying applications

  • Considers privateness and surveillance concerns


The booklet additional explores uncomplicated statistical ideas that, while misapplied, may be the resource of error. repeatedly, titanic information is handled as an oracle that discovers effects no one may have imagined. whereas large facts can serve this priceless functionality, all too frequently those effects are improper, but are nonetheless mentioned unquestioningly. The likelihood of getting inaccurate effects raises as a bigger variety of variables are in comparison until preventative measures are taken.

The method taken via the authors is to provide an explanation for those innovations so managers can ask greater questions in their analysts and owners as to the appropriateness of the equipment used to reach at a end. as the global of technological know-how and drugs has been grappling with comparable concerns within the booklet of stories, the authors draw on their efforts and practice them to important data.

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