Big Data News Weekly - issue 2

#2  - August 30, 2018

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    Finding the Humane in Artificial Intelligence Modern society’s stance on artificial intelligence — AI — is generally split down the middle. While some insist that next-gen robotics and AI-driven machines are set to take over the world, others take a more realistic approach.  IoT and Big Data Are the Future of Cybersecurity IoT and big data are actively driving the future of cybersecurity — both the risks and a host of new tools to fight them off.  The Future of Machine Learning in the Browser with TensorFlow.js TensorFlow for JavaScript has moved the frontiers of machine learning making it available on the client side (in users’ browsers)  Getting started with Apache Kafka in Python This post is about Apache Kafka and how Python programmers can use it for building distributed systems.  Introducing Kafka-Kit: Tools for Scaling Kafka Kafka-Kit is a collection of tools that handle partition to broker mappings, failed broker replacements, storage based partition rebalancing, and replication auto-throttling.  Qubole has open-sourced Sparklens, a spark profiler and performance prediction tool. Sparklens now also supports reporting using spark’s event-history files, which are generated for all spark-apps by default.  Setting up Apache Druid in Hadoop for Data visualizations Apache Druid is a distributed, high-performance columnar store. Druid allows us to store both real-time and historical data that is time series in nature        Books       Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are By the end of an average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information - unprecedented in history - can tell us a great deal about who we are - the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make.     Data Mining for Business Analytics: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications with XLMiner  Readers will work with all of the standard data mining methods using the Microsoft® Office Excel® add-in XLMiner® to develop predictive models and learn how to obtain business value from Big Data.             Big Data | Hadoop News | AI | ML | NoSQL | Education | IoT | Cloud