We are looking for a commercial interior supplier to help us fit out and move into our extended offices while retaining the great working environment that has already been created. We will require additional office furniture in keeping with what we already have as well as the construction of additional meeting rooms on one of the floors.
Polymer is a JavaScript library that helps you create custom reusable HTML elements (web components), and use them to build performant, maintainable apps. Here, Jordan tells us more about why it's so useful.
Confession time… I missed something really important! Most CI tools don’t work too well with Python. Here’s something that’ll help you overcome some of the issues you’ll come across…
In an effort to give developers a view of the tools and technologies that we think are worth trying, we’re hosting a series of hands-on events in Leeds
Cloudera seems to have made some huge leaps forward in terms of enterprise integration, workload automation and High Availability in Cloudera Director 2.0…
Riding the Unicorn – Aligning Technology, Data & Analytics Strategies
Now that I’ve got the customary ‘unicorn’ reference out of the way in the title, down to the serious matter of discussing why, given that it’s so gosh-darned important, we seem to repeat the same mistakes when it comes to Technology, Data & Analytics.
“If we’d written this in Python we’d be done by now”
I’d never really had a ‘programming language of choice’. My first languages were SML and C; I wrote my final year project at University (badly) in Prolog; my first paying job was coding in Progress 4GL and I finally ended up writing predominantly in Java.
After its first stable release last year, Apache Spark was one of those things that seemed to get mentioned a lot by colleagues but no one was actually using it (see also: Apache Storm). After finally getting to grips with it, it’s been an oddly mixed experience.
Sometimes, the visualisation can be something as simple as a chart, showing how a measure has changed over time. Other times, it can be as complex as those created by Mike Bostock of the New York Times and the creator of d3.
The concept of a Single Customer View has been around for ages, but if you google the term you get inundated by numerous articles spelling out how painful it can be to get there – but what actually does it mean?
Scale up vs scale out is a pretty standard conundrum nowadays - particularly with the advent of distributed compute models such as Hadoop. A few years ago, the standard approach in the Business Intelligence & data management world was simply to throw more hardware at it.
Personally, as a consumer, I am FED UP (yes shouty capitals) of shoddy data practices. As if moving house isn't stressful enough without having to speak to your bank 3 times to explain that, Yes, please, I'd like my new credit card to be actually sent to the same new address that my statements were updated to 2 months ago.
Retailers have it pretty tough when it comes to getting insight on their customers. Understanding footfall and who is actually buying your products is the Holy Grail of retail, and the motivation behind huge budget expenditure on loyalty cards and programs.
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