In programming language design, a first-class citizen (also type, object, entity, or value) in a given programming language is an entity which supports all the operations generally available to other entities. These operations typically include being passed as an argument, returned from a function, and assigned to a variable. In computer science, a...
Many a times, the term internship is ill-defined to both the company and the candidate. Company perceives an intern as a trainee who works without or on less pay, in order to gain some extremely confined work experience. On the other hand, candidate takes an internship to be an opportunity where he is...
Data science is the study of where information comes from, what it represents and how it can be turned into a valuable resource in the creation of business and IT strategies. Mining large amounts of structured and unstructured data to identify patterns can help an organization rein in costs, increase efficiencies, recognize new...
GraphX is Apache Spark’s API for graphs and graph-parallel computation. This includes transformation, exploration, and graph computation. Data can be viewed both as graph & collections. This use case discusses friend follower analysis using Apache Spark GraphX’s PageRank operator. PageRank measures the importance of each vertex in a graph, by determining which vertexes have the...
Apache Spark: Where is it going?
Oct 25, 2016 BIG DATA, DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
Databricks ran Apache Spark Survey 2016 this summer to identify how organizations are using Apache Spark. The survey results suggest that Spark’s growth continues across various industries, building sophisticated data solutions by people in various functional roles. Databricks 2016 survey results reflect answers from 900 distinct organizations and 1615 respondents, who were predominantly...
If you could describe your company culture in five words, what would those be? Or rather can you manage to describe it in five words? Often, when we think about company culture, we think about fun team activities, fun after work, fun during work, freedom at workspace, freeness at workspace. But is that all?...
Startup as a whole is based on the idea of right people working for an amazing idea. You have the amazing idea. You have the funding to execute it. But where do you get the right people from? You hire an HR and you trust that person to bring the right people on-board...
It all begins with an idea. When that idea starts shaping up into a product or service, there comes the need to #HireTheRightPeople for the development of the product/service. Founders make sure that they recruit the best people but it can be called a hit & trial method at best. As work increases, an HR...
Data is growing faster than ever before and by the year 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet. With the advent of Twitter and YouTube, this prediction has only been cemented further. 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute to YouTube alone....
Exploring the world of AI
Oct 21, 2016 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTOMATION
Artificial Intelligence is tipped to be the next big thing. A world where computers think and respond like human beings. Inducing intelligence to a machine – artificially. But where exactly are we right now? What were the milestones so far? If we compare Artificial Intelligence to the growth of a human being, it...