What is Data Science? Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Data science is related to data mining, machine learning, and big data. Data science is a “concept to unify statistics, data analysis, and their related methods” to “understand and analyze actual phenomena” with data. It uses techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of mathematics, statistics, computer science, domain knowledge, and information science. (Wikipedia: Data science) R or Python? Data Scientist R vs Python Why use R for Data…
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Introduction The aim of this blog is to provide a guideline for to build sophisticated continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines. The Continuous Integration will be performed by JENKINS and many of its plugins. Especially the pipeline plugins. Jenkins is the open source platform agnostic tool written in Java for implementing DevOps pipeline. It is supported by a vast and generous open source community who helps in upgrading the product frequently. How does Jenkins Work? Jenkins work by using various plugins for different activities. The below image provides a visual representation of plugins per activity in Jenkins. Installation In order…
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Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is developed in Java. Following an open-core business model, parts of the software are licensed under various open-source licenses (mostly the Apache License),[2] while other parts fall under the proprietary (source-available) Elastic License. Official clients are available in Java, .NET (C#), PHP, Python, Apache Groovy, Ruby and many other languages. According to the DB-Engines ranking, Elasticsearch is the most popular enterprise search engine followed by Apache Solr, also based on Lucene. Original author Shay Banon talking about Elasticsearch at Berlin Buzzwords 2010 Initial release 8 February 2010 Written in Java License Various (open-core model), e.g. Apache License 2.0(partially; open source), Elastic License (proprietary; source-available) Website…
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Why do we need CICD? Reduces code risk by integrating code from various sources at all phases of SDLC. Increases confidence among coders/developers Better quality of code Branching and shipping mechanism enables ready to ship code Code lineage and lifecycle management using systematic versioning Code quality and trend analysis Faster and consistent time to market Reduces cost CI: Continuous Integration The CI part of CICD can be summarized with: you want all parts of what goes into making your application go to the same place and run through the same processes with results published to an easy to access place.…
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What Is DevOps? DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality. DevOps is complementary with Agile software development; several DevOps aspects came from Agile methodology. It involves communication and collaboration among all participants in the software development life cycle (SDLC). DevOps focuses on creating an ongoing feedback loop of analyzing, building, and testing while leveraging automation to speed the entire software delivery process. To achieve this kind of seamless and constant loop of software development and testing, you need to create cross-functional teams that can work together…
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Master Data Management (MDM) Solutions for the Finance Industry: A Pathway to Operational Excellence In today’s financial landscape, data has become the cornerstone of decision-making, compliance, and operational efficiency. For financial institutions, managing data effectively is not just a competitive advantage—it’s essential for survival in a highly regulated and data-driven environment. Master Data Management (MDM) offers a structured approach to consolidating and governing critical data, ensuring that it remains accurate, consistent, and readily available across the organization. MDM solutions allow financial institutions to build a single source of truth for their most important data assets, such as customer information, legal…
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Choose- What’s right for you… Not what you are lured with!! We are often confused by our needs. Sometimes we do not have options and have to trust what we get as the best and some other times we are showered with so many offers that we are not sure whether what we are choosing is actually what we want. Brand names, attractive features, extravagant style often blinds our judgment and we end up with a rather overpriced superficially complex, and high-maintenance seeking product. Typical MDM Project – Business Value realization The goal of any MDM implementation…
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Weekend started, pored myself a glass of Long Meadow Ranch Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. It smelled like cherry cola, cinnamon, and a forest in autumn. Probably not the right time to think or even blog about OLAP. – Kinshuk Dutta Online analytical processing, or OLAP Is an approach to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly in computing. OLAP is part of the broader category of business intelligence, which also encompasses relational databases, report writing and data mining. Typical applications of OLAP include business reporting for sales, marketing, management reporting, business process management (BPM), budgeting and forecasting, financial reporting and similar…
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Social CRM – A Cult
Am I Becoming Vulnerable – Social CRM The more information one puts on the net the more vulnerable he/she is becoming. Earlier crooks were playing with it illegally but now ethically people are using information pertaining to someone available on WWW to analyze, understand, and peruse the person for one’s own gain. Does it sound weird? Actually not. That’s what Social CRM is all about. A couple of years back everybody was talking about Social CRM. The hype was much more than the promo of Yash Raj Films. At that time things were much mystified and mystical, so what exactly…