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In-Database Machine Learning 1 – Why Would You Do That?

Waqas Dhillon, Product Manager - Machine Learning, Vertica
April 22, 2019

Co-authored with Paige Roberts. A lot of modern like Vertica allow you to do machine learning from end to end, right in the database, rather than moving and transforming the data first into something like a Spark dataframe or a Python data structure. Whenever people hear about this capability, they have two questions. The first...
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Use Time Series Analytics to Generate a List of Dates at a Specific Start Date

Jim Knicely, Vertica Principal Solution Architect
April 8, 2019

Time series analytics evaluate the values of a given set of variables over time and group those values into a window (based on a time interval) for analysis and aggregation. This feature comes in handy if I need to generate a list of dates using some interval, for example 1 MONTH. Example: But why did...
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Blog Post Series: Using Vertica to Track Commercial Aircraft in near Real-Time — Part 7

Mark Whalley, Corporate Systems Engineer
April 4, 2019

Preparing Vertica to consume messages from Kafka How time has flown (no pun intended!).  At long last getting back to continuing this project on tracking commercial aircraft… Having covered ADS-B, the Raspberry Pi, DUMP1090, Zookeeper and Kafka and then in the how to develop an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) application to present a continuous...
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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...
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It’s Time for Time Series

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
February 19, 2019

Recently, as I always do, I was reading about some emerging trends in our industry and a headline popped out at me -- did you know that time series databases are one of the fastest growing specialty database platforms? That was a surprise to me, so I did a little more research. Time After Time,...
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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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The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Metering

Joy King, VP, Vertica Product Management & Product Marketing
July 17, 2018

Every month, my husband receives a driver’s report from Chevrolet, providing him with “feedback” on his driving behavior – everything from the intensity of his braking to the number of lane changes without a blinker to the distance and speed he drove in his Silverado truck. The report also provides specific details on the upcoming...

Counting Days, Week Days and Weekend Days Across the Years: Quick Tip

Sarah Lemaire, Manager, Vertica Documentation
July 17, 2018

Jim Knicely authored this post. By combing Vertica’s built-in date formatting functions and the TIMESERIES clause, it’s easy to find the total number of days, total number of week days (Monday - Friday), and the total number of weekend days (Saturday - Sunday) that occur within a multi-year range (i.e., 2016 - 2018), including Leap...

Time Series Analysis with Vertica

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
June 11, 2018

This blog post was authored by Maurizio Felici. Time series analytics evaluate the values of a given set of variables over time and group those values into a window, based on a time interval for analysis and aggregation. There are a few types of functions that help perform time series analytics: • Event based functions...

Using Vertica Machine Learning to Analyze Smart Meter Data

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 23, 2018

Machine learning and data science have the potential to transform businesses because of their ability to deliver non-obvious, valuable insights from massive amounts of data. However, many data scientist's workflows are hindered by computational constraints, especially when working with very large data sets. While most real-world data science workflows require more than multiple cores on...
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Vertica Quick Tip: Add Days to a Date, excluding SAT and SUN

Soniya Shah, Information Developer
April 12, 2018

This blog post was authored by Jim Knicely. Say I want to add 12 days to today’s date April, 12, 2018. That’s easy using date arithmetic. But what if I want to only add 12 “business” days and exclude the “weekend” days? That’s not as easy, but not too difficult thanks to Vertica’s TIMESERIES clause!...
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Vertica Wins First Place for Edge-Based Analytics at University of Central Arkansas Raspberry Pi Bakeoff

Tim Donar
April 2, 2018

We had the opportunity to enter our Vertica flight tracking demo at the University of Central Arkansas’s university raspberry pi bakeoff. We won first place, competing against a number of other raspberry pi-based projects! For more information on how to use Vertica to track commercial aircraft in near real time, read Mark Whalley’s blog series...