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Finding Patterns in Stock Prices With Vertica

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
January 21, 2020

Vertica can ingest data from many sources and enable SQL-based preparation and analytics. Here is another real-world example: Let's use Vertica to find patterns in a public data set of stock and (Exchange-Traded Fund) ETF prices from Kaggle. I’ll use the following data source in this post: This data source provides several thousand files for...

Vertica on the Road! Using Vertica to Prepare and Analyze Vehicle Telematics Data

Bryan Herger, Vertica Big Data Solution Architect at Micro Focus
December 17, 2019

Vehicles generate a lot of data from onboard electronics and there is increasing interest in monitoring vehicle handling to help assess insurance risk and premiums. At Vertica, we're working with a few auto manufacturers, so I built this demo to show a relatively simple example of data collection, aggregation and preparation, and analysis of the...
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Top 5 Reasons Why You Win Big with Data at the Vertica Big Data Conference 2020

Jeff Healey, Sr Director, Vertica Product Marketing at Micro Focus
December 9, 2019

A few years ago, we held a user conference for our growing Vertica community. However, we underestimated its success – selling out the inaugural event because we had booked a venue that couldn’t accommodate the interest of hundreds of customers, prospects, and partners for what turned out to be Boston’s biggest and best Big Data...

Announcing Vertica 9.3 Instructor-Led Training Courses

Drea Brandford, Technical Consultant
November 21, 2019

Just in time for the release of version 9.3, Vertica is pleased to announce the release of two updated instructor-led training courses: Vertica 9.3 Essentials and Vertica 9.3 Descriptive Analytics. A description of each course follows: Vertica 9.3 Essentials This 4-day course explores the capabilities of the Vertica platform solution in Enterprise mode, and prepares...
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Vertica Big Data Conference 2020 – Are You Excited Yet?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
October 25, 2019

The Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC) clock is ticking and my excitement is growing by the minute! I want to make sure that our Vertica community is up to date on the latest news, especially some of the General Session speakers and Breakout tracks. And let’s not forget one of the most special components of...
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Announcing Vertica Version 9.3 – Ride the Winds of Change

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
October 16, 2019

The have been blowing strong. This week, Vertica version 9.3 made its big splash. Vertica has a tendency to pack a lot of features even into minor releases, and this is not a minor release. Rather than dive deep, I’m going to skim the surface of the ocean of new features. Eon Mode Improvements Eon...
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Can a 100-Year Old Business Innovate with IoT Analytics?

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
October 11, 2019

One of my greatest pleasures is dining out at all the amazing restaurants here in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. I am always amazed and so proud of the innovative and authentic ethnic cuisines that have made the Triangle a nationally recognized foodie community. I think about the complexities of...

Vertica Big Data Conference Registration is Open!

Ben, Senior Product Marketing Manager
September 16, 2019

We’re excited to announce that for the next Vertica Big Data Conference (BDC), held March 30 – April 2, 2020, at the Encore Boston Harbor Hotel. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing rate of $695 (a $300 savings), along with buy 3 get 1 free group discounts!   What is the Big Data...
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The Vertica Academy Is Open for Learning

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
September 9, 2019

One of the greatest impacts from digital transformation, both from a personal and professional point of view, is not just the democratization of data - a very popular topic here at Vertica! - but the democratization of knowledge. Today, we are excited to announce the new, a platform that offers self-paced, technical training and certifications...
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In-Database Machine Learning 2: Calculate a Correlation Matrix – A Data Exploration Post

Arash Jalel Zadeh Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
September 5, 2019

In the , we discussed some of the reasons why it makes sense to do your machine learning inside the database. This will be the first post where we discuss some of the steps involved in the in-database machine learning workflow. Generally, the first thing you need to do is explore your data. This can...
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Evaluating Classifier Models in Vertica

Arash Jalel Zadeh Fard, Senior Software Engineer at Vertica
August 2, 2019

Co-authored by Elizabeth Michaud Vertica provides an out-of-the box machine learning toolset that covers a complete data science workflow. The toolset includes several distributed functions for evaluating both classifier and regressor machine learning models. The goal of this blog post is to demonstrate how you can use the built-in functions for evaluating the prediction performance...
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Delivering personalized retail promotions using AI and predictive analytics

Ben, Senior Product Marketing Manager
July 31, 2019

SO1.ai helps retailers leverage customer basket and loyalty data to deliver smart, automated promotional decisions at scale across millions of customers. The solution is fully automated and designed to fit a retailer’s specific business goals (i.e. revenues, profit optimization, customer satisfaction or brand sales). Want to learn more about the S01.ai solution?