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With this book, managers and decision makers are given the tools to make more informed decisions about big data purchasing initiatives. Big Data Analytics: A Practical Guide for Managers not only supplies descriptions of common tools, but also surveys the various products and vendors that supply the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pries, Kim H., 1955-
Other Authors: Dunnigan, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Management > Statistical methods.
Management > Data processing.
Big data.
Data mining.
Database management.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • chapter 2. The mother of invention's triplets : Moore's law, the proliferation of data, and data storage technology
  • chapter 3. Hadoop
  • chapter 4. HBase and other big data databases
  • chapter 5. Machine learning
  • chapter 6. Statistics
  • chapter 7. Google
  • chapter 8. Geographic information systems (GIS)
  • chapter 9. Discovery
  • chapter 10. Data quality
  • chapter 11. Benefits
  • chapter 12. Concerns
  • chapter 13. Epilogue.