Big Data Analytics
Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom
line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected
technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of
big data analytics in Big Data Analytics . This breakthrough book
demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible
and intangible values and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable
material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits and identify new business
opportunities.
Reveals big data analytics as the next wave for businesses looking for competitive
advantage Takes an in-depth look at the financial value of big data analytics Offers tools
and best practices for working with big data Once the domain of large on-line retailers
such as eBay and Amazon, big data is now accessible by businesses of all sizes and across
industries. From how to mine the data your company collects, to the data that is available
on the outside, Big Data Analytics shows how you can leverage big data
into a key component in your business's growth strategy.
Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii
Chapter 1 What Is Big Data? 1 The Arrival of Analytics 2 Where Is the Value? 3 More to
Big Data Than Meets the Eye 5 Dealing with the Nuances of Big Data 6 An Open Source Brings
Forth Tools 7 Caution: Obstacles Ahead 8
Chapter 2 Why Big Data Matters 11 Big Data Reaches Deep 12 Obstacles Remain 13 Data
Continue to Evolve 15 Data and Data Analysis Are Getting More Complex 17 The Future Is Now
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Chapter 3 Big Data and the Business Case 21 Realizing Value 22 The Case for Big Data 22
The Rise of Big Data Options 25 Beyond Hadoop 27 With Choice Come Decisions 28
Chapter 4 Building the Big Data Team 29 The Data Scientist 29 The Team Challenge 30
Different Teams, Different Goals 31 Don't Forget the Data 32 Challenges Remain 32 Teams
versus Culture 34 Gauging Success 35
Chapter 5 Big Data Sources 37 Hunting for Data 38 Setting the Goal 39 Big Data Sources
Growing 40 Diving Deeper into Big Data Sources 42 A Wealth of Public Information 43
Getting Started with Big Data Acquisition 44 Ongoing Growth, No End in Sight 46
Chapter 6 The Nuts and Bolts of Big Data 47 The Storage Dilemma 47 Building a Platform
52 Bringing Structure to Unstructured Data 57 Processing Power 59 Choosing among In-house,
Outsourced, or Hybrid Approaches 61
Chapter 7 Security, Compliance, Auditing, and Protection 63 Pragmatic Steps to Securing
Big Data 64 Classifying Data 65 Protecting Big Data Analytics 66 Big Data
and Compliance 67 The Intellectual Property Challenge 72
Chapter 8 The Evolution of Big Data 77 Big Data: The Modern Era 80 Today, Tomorrow, and
the Next Day 84 Changing Algorithms 90
Chapter 9 Best Practices for Big Data Analytics 93 Start Small with
Big Data 94 Thinking Big 95 Avoiding Worst Practices 96 Baby Steps 98 The Value of
Anomalies 101 Expediency versus Accuracy 103 In-Memory Processing 104
Chapter 10 Bringing It All Together 111 The Path to Big Data 112 The Realities of
Thinking Big Data 113 Hands-on Big Data 115 The Big Data Pipeline in Depth 116 Big Data
Visualization 121 Big Data Privacy 122 Appendix Supporting Data 125 "The MapR
Distribution for Apache Hadoop" 126 "High Availability: No Single Points of
Failure" 142 About the Author 151 Index 153
160 pages, Hardcover