This is my first time to visit the PASS Business Analytics Conference and so I want to take the chance to give a wrap up of my impressions of the first day. The conference takes place in Santa Clara and... Continue Reading →
I think today was a very historic day. Ralph, de Bräd, Kemperdick (Microsoft Germany), organized the worldwide first carnival session at Microsoft in Cologne. Together with some other Jecks (Hilmar, Christos, Tillman and me) we presented some funny sessions about... Continue Reading →
In the last two years I had the chance to get my hands on some very exciting Data Analytics projects and I wanted to take the chance to recap and to reach out to Data Engineers and BI Consultants. Why?... Continue Reading →
…how well do they play together? I continue my Data Science Lab series with a new story about Data Analytics based on SQL Server and R. As I already described in the Data Science workplace R is a typical and... Continue Reading →
I’m happy to say that I will present another session on Data Analytics together with Rafal Lukawiecki on the 21st of March in Zurich. This event is organized by Microsoft and Rafal and is focused on Data Analytics with the... Continue Reading →
It’s already some weeks ago since I presented this session about PDW and R at the SQL Server Conference in Darmstadt. The conference itself was very nice, we had about 350 participants, mostly from Germany. I wanted to take the... Continue Reading →
A typical Big Data architecture is able to handle structured data and unstructured data. Databases are great to handle large amounts of structured data, which can be queried very efficient and fast. But databases are not an appropriate store for... Continue Reading →
Thomas Davenport, an American academic and publisher for Harvard Business Review, once said that Data Scientist is “the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. But why is there such a big hype and mythos... Continue Reading →
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