Big Data - Tom Kerkhove

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MVP Summit, Techdays Finland, NDC Minnesota, Techorama & Intelligent Cloud Conference

MVP Summit, Techdays Finland, NDC Minnesota, Techorama & Intelligent Cloud Conference

Lately, my blog has been pretty quiet and thats for a reason - I've been pretty busy with travelling, coding and preparing talks.

Determining what data storage fits your needs in Azure

Microsoft Azure offers a great variaty of data stores in different flavors. While this is great it also makes it a lot harder to determine which one fits your needs best. Today I found this great flow chart that helps you tackle this problem by focusing on data structure, the

Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data Lake - Storing the data

Before we can start analysing StackExchange sample data, we'll need to get our data in Azure. There are several options for data storage in Azure, each with a specific goal. For data analytics -espacially with Azure Data Lake Analytics- Azure Data Lake Store is the de facto. In

Analyzing StackExchange data with Azure Data Lake - Introduction

A few weeks ago I wrote about what Microsoft announced on Azure Data Lake [https://tomkerkhove.ghost.io/2015/10/22/exploring-azures-data-lake/] and what you can expect. As of Wednesday 28th of October, Azure Data Lake Store & Analytics are now in public preview allowing you to try it out

Automated builds for Azure Data Lake Analytics extensibility

Recently I have been working on an open-source project [http://github.com/CoditEU/usql] around Azure Data Lake Analytics. It will contain custom U-SQL components that you can use in your own projects and already contains a Xml Attribute Extractor. To build my code I'm using MyGet.org

Exploring Azure's Data Lake

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Exploring Azure's Data Lake

Recently Microsoft revealed their plans for Azure Data Lake and how it groups several big data services in Azure under one umbrella. In this blog post I'll walk you through what it offers and how it enable you to re-use your existing skills to analyse big data. What