From Data Source to Secret Sauce: Hive for BI Pros
Recorded on 3 Sep 2013 at PASS Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter (PASS DW/BI VC)
From Data Source to Secret Sauce: Hive for BI Pros
Big Data is not so much about storing massive amounts of data in a common database. It is also a force of change for the organisation, and it means that we have to consider the collective capabilities of the platform to serve the business: from data source to secret sauce that will help the business to make data-driven decisions to drive the enterprise forward.
How can you get your organisation's secret sauce? Big Data allows us to conduct better analyses because research has shown that simple algorithms with a lot of data can produce better results than complex algorithms that do not have a data-rich set to work on. Data scientists need a way of combining the scalability of Big Data with the ability to conduct extensive data analysis.
Big Data can look like a minefield: what is Map Reduce? Do I have to know Java? In this session, you will be introduced to Hive, which is comfortingly similar to SQL and translates your SQL queries into Map Reduce behind the scenes for you. It's an essential tool so please join us to learn more about it.
Speaker:
Jen Stirrup is a SQL Server MVP who is best-known for her work in Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation. She is the current holder of the SQLPassion Award, presented by PASS at Summit 2012, for her work in organising Women in Technology events across Europe and the UK for the European SQL Server community.
Jen has presented at TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, SQLPass and SQLBIts, along with SQLSaturday events throughout Europe. Jen is the main organiser for SQLSaturday Edinburgh, and runs the Hertfordshire User Group for SQL Server (HUGGS).
Jen is joint owner of Copper Blue Consulting, architecting and delivering enterprise-critical solutions that add business value in addition to provisioning technical integrity. You can follow Jen on Twitter at @JenStirrup
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