Big Data
Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine that has an HTTP interface and stores its data in schema-free JSON documents. Unfortunately, a spate of costly and painful breaches of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) continue to plague online Elasticsearch databases:
Were all the PII or other sensitive information in these DBs masked however, successful hacks and development copies may not be problematic. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
This article covers installation of the KNIME Analytics Platform as a core feature in the IRI Workbench IDE for Voracity, built on Eclipse, as well as the IRI Voracity Data Provider, or Job Source, node for KNIME described in this article. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
In predictive analytics, machine learning involves training a computer to evaluate data sets and create prediction models from trends it finds in the data. Machine learning builds off traditional statistics and creates larger and more advanced models faster than a person ever could. Read More
Big Data
KNIME is a leading open source analytic and visualization tool for data scientists. Wrangling raw data for KNIME projects is usually done via their intermediate file node, database connectors, or other extensions like Spark. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Oracle Data Visualization Desktop, Oracle DV or DVD for short, is business intelligence (BI) software that can organize, aggregate, and visualize data for informational outcomes. What seems to make this BI software unique is its ability to create slideshow presentations from its different visualizations. Read More
Business Intelligence (BI)
Power BI is a business analytics and data visualization package from Microsoft that can provide custom-designed dashboards and reports ready for web or mobile display. Like other BI and analytic tools, Power BI can also perform simple data wrangling jobs like sorting and aggregation before and after the data are displayed. Read More
Data Masking/Protection
Adding ‘random noise’ to data through blurring or perturbation is a data common anonymization requirement for researchers and marketers of protected health information (PHI) seeking to comply with the HIPAA Expert Determination Method security rule. Read More
