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Application Platform for Enterprise Big Data

Application Platform for Enterprise Big Data

Apache Thrift Apache ZooKeeper - Home Apache Kafka HBase - Apache HBase™ Home Welcome to Apache Pig! Welcome to Hive! The Internet of Things (and the myth of the “Smart” Fridge) 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis You may not think you've got much in common with an investigative journalist or an academic medical researcher. But if you're trying to extract useful information from an ever-increasing inflow of data, you'll likely find visualization useful -- whether it's to show patterns or trends with graphics instead of mountains of text, or to try to explain complex issues to a nontechnical audience. There are many tools around to help turn data into graphics, but they can carry hefty price tags. Here's a rundown of some of the better-known options, many of which were demonstrated at the Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) conference last month. Data cleaning Before you can analyze and visualize data, it often needs to be "cleaned." DataWrangler What it does: This Web-based service from Stanford University's Visualization Group is designed for cleaning and rearranging data so it's in a form that other tools such as a spreadsheet app can use. What's cool: Text editing is especially easy.

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