Why all this interest in Spark?

by dennyglee Categories: BigDataTags: · 1 Comment

“Spark … is what you might call a Swiss Army knife of Big Data analytics tools” — Reynold Xin (@rxin), Berkeley AmpLab Shark Development Lead The above quote – from the Wired article “Spark: Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data” – encompasses why I am a fan of Spark.  If you are an avid hiker or outdoors-person, you already appreciate the flexibility of a Swiss Army Knife (or Leatherman).  It is the perfect compact tool to do a variety of simple but necessary tasks – bordering on life saving (below is a picture from my ascent to Mount…

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PowerPivotPro-School: Choose your Big Data topics!

by dennyglee Categories: Analysis Services · BigDataTags: · 3 Comments

Are you interested in learning more about PowerPivot from the pro?  The pro I mean is Rob Collie is the guy who designed PowerPivot and has been teaching, writing, and using PowerPivot since 2009.  Well, he has the PowerPivotPro School which has 12+ hours vide on advanced PowerPivot which is designed for Excel users.  If you want to join the course – do it now at: http://www.powerpivotpro.com/powerpivotpro-school/ as sign ups close August 16th, 2013! One of bonus module course that will be part of Rob’s comprehensive PowerPivot course is about Big Data presented by yours truly.  So help me choose which…

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Quick Tips and Q&A for SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive

by dennyglee Categories: Analysis Services · BigDataTags: · 6 Comments

Over the last few weeks I’ve fielded some questions concerning the paper that Dave Mariani (@dmariani) and I had contributed to the whitepaper / case study SQL Server Analysis Services to Hive; below is an aggregate of those tips – hope this helps! Q: I’m running into the HiveODBC Error message “..expected data length is 334…” A: Check out the post for details on how to potentially resolve this: HiveODBC error message “..expected data length is 334…”  .  Q: Can I connect Analysis Services Tabular to Hive instead of Multidimensional? A: Yes! Ayad Shammout (@aashammout) has a couple of great…

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