We met with CEO and Co – Founder of Radoop. Radoop is a big data analytics company with the goal of lowering the barrier for using Hadoop systems. The Radoop package allows even non-technical people to access, analyze and visualize big data, but also provides scripting and advanced predictive analytics for

Melanie Mueller, Data Scientist from Harvard University, gives us an overview of her visit to Big Data TechCon conference in Boston. Melanie attended the conference from March 31 to April 2. Big Data practitioners converged on Boston to attend Big Data TechCon , a Big Data training conference organized by

Ingo Mierswa CEO of Rapidminer has stated that “Whatsapp was a good deal for facebook”. Ingo points out that with over 450 million users  WhatsApp is already a very strong player on the market. Going forward Ingo believes that the company can  reach an  user base of over 1 billion users