This is one that slipped under my radar when it happened – back in August. Christian Prokopp, a Principal Consultant here at Big Data Partnership, was in Bangladesh on holiday, and he took the opportunity to hook up with some local Big Data activists. He quickly found a host of local enthusiasts: academics, entrepreneurs, data scientists and just…
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We’ve just won funding matching from the UK government’s InnovateUK 2014 programme with partners Outcome Based Healthcare to answer that question. This is a fascinating, challenging but very valuable machine-learning project, because currently, treating type 2 diabetes and complications caused by it eats up over 6% of NHS budget. And a lot of that cost – and the human cost –…
The Times carries an article on 1st December about Big Data for SMEs. It features Postcode Anywhere‘s smart new product, Triggar (in controlled testing from January) front and centre. Triggar uses Cassandra, Spark, Elasticsearch and some very effective machine learning so eCommerce site operators can dynamically optimise site behaviour depending on the profiles of visitors, and how…
Next week we’ll be at the Cassandra Summit in London, presenting with our customer PostcodeAnywhere on their cool Cassandra/Spark/Elasticsearch lambda architecture. And we’ll be doing a lightning talk at the conference about one of the challenges in that project – refreshing the evolving model from Cassandra in Spark Streaming so responses to the streaming data are…
MapR recently invited BigDataPartnership’s Christian Prokopp to blog about the 6 steps to big data success. It makes interesting reading, and focuses on the business and not just the technology – which is merely the means to delivering value to the business.
The way Big Data Partnership delivers Support isn’t like a lot of big companies, who have dedicated support staff, with relatively low skill levels, trying to screen the real experts from a wave of tickets. We have a pool of experts who pitch in with support. It’s not like that sounds: a bunch of folk…
After dinner at a company weekend trip, I walked into the hotel bar and saw one of my colleagues pouring wine from a crystal decanter. Curiosity and my thirst drew me to ask about the wine. My colleague told me it was an expensive blend of syrah and grenache from the Languedoc region in the…
I spend most of my life – not just the working day – explaining, cajoling and describing how the new evolution of data management is in fact a revolution. It’s a revolution where everybody is going to be affected, in many areas of their working and home lives. Part of that time I spend on…
Company Day Out! On Friday 1st August 2014, Big Data Partnership took to London Fields for our first ever summer picnic. Armed with beer, pimms, numerous picnic blankets and even a gazebo, we set up camp in Hackney for the afternoon. In order to feed all thirty of us, everyone was asked to bring a…
After the 2-1 defeat against Uruguay, you don’t need to develop a complicated algorithm to work out the chances of England qualifying for the knock-out stages of the World Cup this year. In more more positive news, Rooney finally gave the statisticians the opportunity to mark a goal next his name in a World Cup…