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Back to business
It was a little bit quite here in the last few weeks, which does not mean that there is nothing more to write about. I decided to take a little break during the summertime and get some fresh ideas....
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Microsofts Big Data Appliance
As you probably already heard there will a new version of the Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse available in the first half of 2013. So let me quickly go through the highlights of Version 2....
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Rock your data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW)
I had the chance to do a customer POC on a very early version of SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse and like to share the new features for PDW as well as the impressive results we got. The good...
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Rock your data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) – What’s new?
As I already stated out in my first post I want share some insights about the new SQL Server 2012 version of Parallel Data Warehouse. In this post I will talk about some new features as well as...
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Rock your data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) – POC...
I will continue my blog series about SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse. If you missed my earlier posts of this series you can find them here: Rock your data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data...
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Data Science–What’s the big deal about it?
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...
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A Data Science workplace
In my post about what makes a Data Scientist I talked about the role of a Data Scientist and the kind of work that these people do. So next I want to talk about the Data Science laboratory and how a...
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Data Science Labs – Analyze Twitter data with Excel and Power Query
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....
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Data Science Labs – Cluster analysis with Microsoft BI and R
As I pointed out in my post about a Data Science workplace I ‘m going to write more about how we can leverage tools like R in combination with Microsoft BI. In my last post I shortly introduced a...
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Create a Data Science Lab with Microsoft and Open Source Tools
…this was the title of my session I had at the SQL Rally Nordic. Together with my friends Gerhard, Alexei and Thomas and a crowd of the best speakers in the PASS community we had the chance to present...
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Analytic Powerhouse–Parallel Data Warehouse and R
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...
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Conference time – From data to business advantage
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...
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Data Science Labs – Data Analytics with SQL Server and R… (Part 1)
…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...
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A call to all Data Engineers and BI workers
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?...
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Big Data = Big Fun – The worldwide first Microsoft carnival session
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,...
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PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015 – Day 1
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...
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Data Science–What’s the big deal about it?
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...
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Data Science Labs – Analyze Twitter data with Excel and Power Query
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....
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Big Data = Big Fun – The worldwide first Microsoft carnival session
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,...
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PASS Business Analytics Conference 2015 – Day 1
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...
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