Data Analysis with R and Google BigQuery

This blog post describes the process of staging data in Google Cloud Storage and then mapping this to Google BigQuery to provide a low-cost SQL interface for Big Data analysis.  There is an R package for connecting to Google Big Query, called bigrquerythat can be used to connect to Google BigQuery and interface with it …

Hooking Up to Slack with Python

The free Slack collaboration environment combined with the Slack Python API  is a great way to automate simple tasks with simple Chat-Bots, automated scripts and background processes that can be written in Python and triggered from Slack on demand. This blog article leaves the details of what you do with Slack API and just goes through …

Hypothesis Testing in Python

This web-post aims to provide a practical guide to Hypothesis Testing in Python; this is for testing for Statistically Significant differences between two situations or scenarios (it is more complicated if there’s more than two). This blog assumes little math or statistics background and doesn't attempt to prove or use the math theorems directly - …

Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 4: Zeppelin Notebooks

This is Part 4 of my series of four blog articles about trying the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this article, it is assumed that an Oracle Big Data Cloud Service has already been provisioned as described in Part 3 of this blog series. When the Oracle Big …

Oracle Free Cloud Trial – Part 3: Hadoop

This is Part 3 of my series of four blog articles recording my experiences trying out the Oracle Cloud using the 30 day / $300 Free Trial offer.  In this blog-post I cover provisioning a pre-configured Hadoop service in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle provide several Big-Data-in-the-Cloud service offerings including: Big Data (enterprise Big Data based …