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Still looking for idea
Intro I’m still thinking generally about the same ideas, which is a good sign (I didn’t yet get bored with it). List of topics Here is the current list of ideas/concepts I’m looking into: Return of Security Investment (ROSI) Entropy Simulation & Monte Carlo Mathematical Modelling Ordinary Differential Equations & Chaos Numerical Methods Operational Research…
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From local Spark to Azure Synapse
Intro In the last entry we laid out an Apache Spark foundation locally to our laptop, using some Docker containers. This time around, let’s look at what a Cloud-based alternative can look like. We’re going to have a look at Azure Synapse. Many things in one service That’s what is advertised. And being cloud based,…
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Getting into Apache Spark
Intro Most RDBMS’s are just fine. Hadoop does work for Big Data (I used it some years back), although HQL proved a bit slow… And I haven’t “needed” anything to make things faster for now… But for whatever reason, one can’t be “into data science” (or data analysis, or whatever you name it…), without knowing…