Note, at the time of this writing using the packages ggplot2 and ggmap from CRAN will result in an error. To avoid the error be sure to install both packages

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“There is great potential for us to mobilise the power of data to help us make better decisions. However, the technology that has allowed us all to be so wonderfully connected has also allowed us each to live in our own world, separated from others. In our online lives, we risk connecting only with those […]

How dangerous is big data? Anyone who has not spent the last five years living on another planet will be familiar with the term Big Data. Big Data means, in essence, that everything we do, both on and offline, leaves digital traces. Every purchase we make with our cards, every search we type into Google, […]

A peek into the clickstream analysis and production pipeline for processing tens of millions of daily clicks, for thousands of articles.

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This Hadoop tutorial shows how to refine raw Twitter sentiment analysis data using Hadoop and the Hortonworks Data Platform, analyze and visualize with Excel 2013

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