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How to setup a simple load balancer in Metal Cloud

Due to its architecture that combines the power of dedicated servers with the scalability of cloud computing, Bigstep Metal Cloud instances offer a high-performance… Continue Reading

Six Ways Big Data Has Transformed the Business Market

Guest post by Rachel Stinson   Big data has become viral; it's a certainty. Linked to technological developments in recent years, data processing… Continue Reading

Data Science Webinar: Recommender Systems - From Simple to Complex

On November 15th, Bigstep will host a webinar on the topic of Recommender Systems, ranging from simple systems to complex ones. Registration is limited,… Continue Reading

Jupyter Notebook and Recording for the Data Science Webinar: Recommender Systems - From Simple to Complex

Following our webinar on demystifying the algorithms and methods employed in recommender systems, we have uploaded the full recording and the Jupyter… Continue Reading

Five Unexpected Uses of Big Data

Big data is used by companies to better understand their customers and provide targeted content. Retailers like Amazon, content providers like Netflix… Continue Reading

Netflix or How 1 Million Invested Saves Billions

Netflix & Spotify are two of the biggest names you come across when you talk about big data, business, innovation & art. Spotify handles music,… Continue Reading

Music and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is far from being able to make music, farther than most people presume anyway. However, this does not make Big Data with Machine… Continue Reading

The Future of Managing Trust

Each science fiction work has portrayed a version of the future. With our current progress, we can already probabilistically discard some of those portrayals.… Continue Reading

Understand the Differences Between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

To understand what data warehouses and data lakes are, let’s start with language: why is a data lake called a data lake and a data warehouse a data… Continue Reading

Making Practical Use of Big Data

Big Data has almost unlimited use cases, especially if combined with machine learning. We review some of them so that you can paint a practical picture… Continue Reading

Best Big Data Books to Read in 2018

If you want to improve your big data knowledge, then this article will give you an overview over some of the best big data books that can bring more light… Continue Reading

The Case for Big Data Deontology

The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal shows us how critical access to data nowadays really is. By all indications, the voters’ own answers to a… Continue Reading