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Southern Data Science Conference, April 11, 12

Join Vertica at the Southern Data Science Conference in Atlanta

Jeff Healey, Vice President of Marketing, Vertica Product Group in Micro Focus
April 8, 2019

Next week – April 11-12 – Atlanta, GA will host the Southern Data Science Conference (SDSC). Held at the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Midtown, this event is geared to data scientists converging to hear from the industry’s best and brightest minds from top companies and research institutes. More than 400 attendees will attend two days of...
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Embedding Vertica Provides SysMech With Unmatched Telco Analytical Power

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 27, 2019

You probably use Vertica on a daily basis, and don’t even realize it. One good example of this for the Telco industry is SysMech. SysMech offers telecommunications companies a powerful new generation of service management applications. SysMech makes Zen Operational Intelligence Software, which embeds Vertica as its analytical engine. Zen correlates complex data from 75...
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Maxcom Telecomunicaciones Gets More Than They Bargained For With Vertica

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 22, 2019

Maxcom Telecomunicaciones is a Mexican integrated telecommunications operator providing managed voice and data services. The Mexican federal regulations changed recently, requiring Maxcom to retain call detail record (CDR) data for two years, rather than two months. It also required them to answer queries on that data far faster, sometimes within an hour, any time of...

Brace Yourself: 5G is Coming

Ben Smith, Senior Product Marketing Manager
March 21, 2019

Find out how machine learning and predictive analytics can be a growth engine for telcos and mobile operators in the age of 5G
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 6. Advantages of In-Database Machine Learning

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 13, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. This is the final installment of the discussion. It was a lot of fun catching up and talking shop. In this final interview post, we talked about some of the advantages of doing...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 3. Exciting News for Upcoming Python Release 3.8

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
March 6, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and have been posting them one chunk at a time. In the first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 2. Advantages of KNIME and Letting Databases Do What Databases Do Best

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 27, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this second post, we discuss the advantages of KNIME for a...
Vertica One on One with Davin Potts, CEO Appliomics, Founder KNIME, Core Python Committer

One on One with Davin Potts: 1. On Becoming a Core Python Committer and the Tools Used to Build Data Science

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 26, 2019

At the recent Data Day Texas event, I sat down with Davin Potts and had a long conversation about a wide variety of subjects. I divided the conversation into multiple chunks by subject, and will post them up one subject at a time. In this first post, we discussed the wide variety of programming languages...
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Data Day Texas: Keep Your Architecture Open and Avoid Mindset Lock-in

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
February 11, 2019

Data Day Texas is an event in Austin that was started about nine years ago by an old acquaintance of mine, Lynn Bender, who founded Global DataGeeks. The one big theme that struck me this year as running through the whole conference was the highly cooperative landscape that has developed between proprietary and open source...
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What You Never Knew About Vertica Could Surprise You

Paige Roberts, Vertica Open Source Relations Manager
December 17, 2018

I just started working on the Vertica team. As the “new guy,” my first few weeks of work have been largely about cramming as much Vertica information into my brain as possible in the shortest time possible. That’s my favorite part of working in the big data analysis world. You always have to keep learning....
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Announcing Vertica 9.x Training: Predictive Analytics Using Machine Learning

Drea Brandford, Technical Consultant
November 20, 2018

In today’s data-driven world, creating a competitive advantage depends on your ability to transform massive volumes of data into meaningful insights. Companies that use advanced analytics and machine learning are twice as likely to be top quartile financial performers, and three times more likely to execute effective decisions. On November 16, 2018, Micro Focus Software...

Vertica’s In-database Random Forest, Highly Scalable and Easy to Use

Elizabeth Michaud, Principal Information Developer
October 25, 2018

Arash Jalal Zadeh Fard authored this post. Vertica has a set of machine learning tools covering a wide spectrum of advanced data analysis functionalities like data discovery, data preparation, model training, model evaluation, and model management. The goal of this blog post is to provide a hands-on example demonstrating how the built-in distributed Random Forest...