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Wine Tasting and Big Data Project Decision Making

After dinner at a company weekend trip, I walked into the hotel bar and saw one of my colleagues pouring wine from a crystal decanter. Curiosity and my thirst drew me to ask about the wine. My colleague told me it was an expensive blend of syrah and grenache from the Languedoc region in the…

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Big Data training is about bringing real-world experience into the classroom

I spend most of my life – not just the working day – explaining, cajoling and describing how the new evolution of data management is in fact a revolution. It’s a revolution where everybody is going to be affected, in many areas of their working and home lives. Part of that time I spend on…

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Welcome to the perkplace: why you should move to an office with benefits

Is your boss flying you to Ibiza this weekend for the closing parties? No? Then it’s time to move to an office with benefits, says Phoebe Luckhurst By  PHOEBE LUCKHURST | Published: 30 September 2014 Briefly, during the heady, bright-eyed naivety of the back-to-school period, you reckoned you loved your career. R.I.P misguided fervour. It’s almost October, which is…

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Big Data Partnership Accredited as Databricks Apache Spark Training Partner

   Big Data Partnership Selected as Europe’s First Databricks Accredited Apache Spark Training Partner LONDON, UK (9 September 2014) – Big Data Partnership, the leading big data services company, today announced an expansion of its curriculum and a partnership with Databricks to offer Europe’s first Apache Spark training programme. Big Data Partnership provides vendor-agnostic big…

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Govt urged to support IT sector to make ‘Silicon Bangladesh’

By  DhakaTribune | Published: 24 August 2014 The experts observed that an emphasis is needed to to be placed for formulation of year-on-year basis plan for the IT sector Information and communication technology experts yesterday called upon the government and private enterprises to come up with opportunities for young professionals and university graduates so that they could invest their…

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BDP Summer Picnic

Picnic in the Park

Company Day Out! On Friday 1st August 2014, Big Data Partnership took to London Fields for our first ever summer picnic. Armed with beer, pimms, numerous picnic blankets and even a gazebo, we set up camp in Hackney for the afternoon. In order to feed all thirty of us, everyone was asked to bring a…

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Grasping the full potential of cyber insurance

By Tony Dowding, | Commercial Risk Europe | Published: 17 July 2014   Last month’s JLT Global Digital Risks & Technology Forum saw risk managers and transfer partners gather in Salzburg, Austria to discuss the latest developments in cyber risk and insurance solutions. Tony Dowding was there for Commercial Risk Europe and reports on the highlights from the event. Cyber…

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Time to avoid gut instinct

    By Nick Booth | MicroScope | Published: July 2014 One of the advantages that machines have over humans is that often they make entirely rational judgments, whereas humans still base their decisions on instinct. While gut feeling and instinctive decision making have their place, sometimes the logic is primitive, being based on a set of circumstances that hasn’t been…

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Slideshare: (Introduction) Hadoop Masterclass

Here are the slides from a presentation delivered by Big Data Partnership (@BigDataExperts). This masterclass on Hadoop is an hour-long version of the one-day course run by Big Data Partnership (http://dunuah571ylv3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Hadoop-Masterclass.pdf). “This one-day course is designed to help both IT professionals and decision-makers understand the concepts and benefits of Apache Hadoop and how it can…

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Slideshow: An introduction to Big Data Concepts

Here are the slides from a presentation delivered by Big Data Partnership (@BigDataExperts). This masterclass on Big Data Concepts is an hour-long introductory version of the one-day course run by Big Data Partnership (http://dunuah571ylv3.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BigData-Concepts.pdf). “This one-day masterclass is an executive briefing on Big Data designed for senior management and business leaders to learn about Big…

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