How to Learn Python Programming Quickly
So you want to learn to program in Python and you don’t have a lot of time? That’s okay! Once you grasp some of the key concepts and ways of thinking, it will all come to you. So let’s get Read more…
NoSQL Pandas Dataframes
tldr; Pandas Dataframes are simply a table with some rows (McKinney, 2015) and many additional features built right in to make data scientists lives much easier. What are NoSQL Pandas dataframes? Pandas is an open source Python library that provides high Read more…
Graph Databases and their Properties
The concept of a graph in mathematics is simply a collection of elements which are typically called Nodes and are joined together by Edges. Each Node represents a piece of information in the graph and each Edge represents some relationship Read more…
Relational (SQL) vs NoSQL Database Models
The Relational (SQL) database has been a central piece to businesses since the 1970s when they first had their claim to fame. Experts say that the world’s data is doubling every two years (Gajani, 2017) and this is simply something Read more…
Netflix Hadoop Big Data Marketing Use Case
Netflix is a video streaming service that has a wealth of information about their user base likes, dislikes, general consumer habits, retention lengths and much more. Netflix uses their big data to commission original programming content that it knows will Read more…
Using Hadoop to manage “Dark Data”
Dark Data is the biggest piece of the pie (Datumize , n.d.) when it comes to Big Data and what lies beneath huge datasets of collected information. IBM has stated in a report that over 80 percent of all data Read more…
Contemporary and beneficial uses of Big-Data Systems
Big data is a term applied to datasets whose size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases to capture, manage, and process the data with low-latency. (IBM, 2018) They share at least one or more of the Read more…
Data Warehouses vs Data Marts
Although the terms “data warehouse” and “data mart” sound similar, they are quite different. It is important to first understand how they differ in order to define some characteristics and practical applications for each. Serra (2012) has a great explanation Read more…
An Introduction to 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server Systems
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation. The former is essentially where all clients contain application and business logic code to read from a datastore themselves (STC, n.d.) and the latter by comparison Read more…
An Introduction to Client-Server Systems
A client-server architecture/system is one where the server maintains all models of the backend datasets and business logic around taking and providing information to fulfill a service request from a client which in turn shows the representation thereof. The client/server Read more…