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Kafka and Football: KSQL, Google Natural Language APIs, BigQuery and DataStudio

If you missed it, yesterday I wrote a guest blog post for Confluent [https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksql-in-football-fifa-womens-world-cup-data-analysis] ! The blog post mixes two of my favorite topics: Apache Kafka and Football! The post starts by defining the data ingestion from Twitter and sport news RSS feeds via Kafka Connect

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Oracle Analytics Summit 2019

Last week I attended the Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch]. The event was live-streamed on Facebook and widely Tweeted [https://twitter.com/hashtag/OracleAnalyticsSummit?src=hash], so a fair number of people may be up to speed with the announcements, I’ll

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Rittman Mead at Kscope 2019

June is time for one of my favourite conferences: Kscope! This year the location is Seattle and the Agenda [https://kscope19.odtug.com/page/speakers-presentations] is impressive. The event starts on Sunday with the Symposiums driven by Oracle Product Managers and divided by stream of interest. The main conference is

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Game of Thrones Series 8: Real Time Sentiment Scoring with Apache Kafka, KSQL, Google's Natural Language API and Python

Hi, Game of Thrones aficionados, welcome to GoT Series 8 and my tweet analysis! If you missed any of the prior season episodes, here are I [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/08/how-was-game-of-thrones-s07-e05-tweet-analysis-with-kafka-bigquery-and-tableau/] , II [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/08/the-week-after-game-of-thrones-s07-e06-analysis/] and III [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/

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Democratize Data Science with Oracle Analytics Cloud - Predictions and Final Considerations

Oracle Analytics Cloud as an enabler for Data Science: this is the third post of a series which started with Episode I [http://ritt.md/OAC-datascience] where we discussed the path from a Data Analyst to a Data Scientist and how to start a Data Science journey with OAC. Episode

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Democratize Data Science with Oracle Analytics Cloud - Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Welcome back! In my previous Post [http://ritt.md/OAC-datascience], I described how the democratization of Data Science is a hot topic in the analytical industry. We then explored how Oracle Analytics Cloud can act as an enabler for the transformation from Business Analyst to Data Scientist and covered the

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Democratize Data Science with Oracle Analytics Cloud

Oracle Analytics Cloud bridges the gap between Business Analysts and Data Scientist by providing Augmented Analytics and a easy path to Machine Learning.

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Announcing The Kafka Pilot with Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead is today pleased to announce the launch of it's Kafka Pilot service, focusing on engaging with companies to help fully assess the capabilities of Apache Kafka for event streaming use cases with both a technical and business focus. Our 30 day Kafka Pilot includes: * A comprehensive

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Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) training with Rittman Mead

Rittman Mead have today launched it's new Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) [https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/oac] Bootcamp. Run on OAC, the course lasts four days and covers everything you need to know in order to manage your Cloud BI platform and assumes no prior knowledge up-front.

Scala

Spark Streaming and Kafka, Part 3 - Analysing Data in Scala and Spark

In my first two blog posts of the Spark Streaming and Kafka series - Part 1 - Creating a New Kafka Connector [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2019/02/kafka/] and Part 2 - Configuring a Kafka Connector [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2019/02/spark-streaming-and-kafka/] - I showed how

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Rittman Mead at Analytics and Data Summit 2019

The Analytics and Data Summit 2019 (formerly known as BIWA) is happening next week in Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores. I'm excited to participate since it's one of the best conferences for the Oracle Analytics crowd where you can get three days full of content from

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Spark Streaming and Kafka, Part 2 - Configuring a Kafka Connector

In my previous blog post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2019/02/kafka/], I covered the development of a custom Kafka Source Connector, written in Scala. This blog post is about deploying that Connector. We are getting closer to analysing the stream data in Spark - as promised in the

Kafka, Spark, Scala, Source Connector

Spark Streaming and Kafka, Part 1 - Creating a New Kafka Connector

More Kafka and Spark, please! Hello, world! Having joined Rittman Mead more than 6 years ago, the time has come for my first blog post. Let me start by standing on the shoulders of blogging giants, revisiting Robin's [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/author/robin-moffatt/] old blog post

The Importance of Feature Engineering and Selection

In machine learning your model is only ever as good as the data you train it on. As such a significant proportion of your effort should be focused on creating a dataset that is optimised to maximise the information density of your data. Feature engineering and selection are the methods

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Oracle OpenWorld Europe : London 2019

Some eleven thousand people descended on Oracle OpenWorld Europe in London last week for two days of business and technical sessions delivered by a mixture of members of Oracle’s product team and end users giving real-world case studies of adoption of Oracle’s Cloud offerings and product roadmaps. Something

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How Are My Users Connecting? Analyzing OAC and OBIEE entry points

Are you managing an OAC or OBIEE instance and your life is nice and easy since you feel like having everything in control: your users browse existing dashboards, create content via Analysis, Data Visualization or SmartView and deliver data via Agents or download dashboard content to use in Excel. You

Unify

Exciting News for Unify

Announcement: Unify for Free We are excited to announce we are going to make Unify available for free. To get started send an email to [email protected], we will ask you to complete a short set of qualifying questions, then we can give you a demo, provide a product

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Fixing* Baseline Validation Tool** Using Network Sniffer

Learn how to use Wireshark network sniffer to debug Oracle BI and BVT

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ODC Appreciation Day: Oracle Cloud PSM Cli

Oracle Developer Community (ODC) Appreciation Day [https://oracle-base.com/blog/2018/09/27/oracle-developer-community-odc-appreciation-day-2018-thanksodc/] (previously know as OTN Appreciation Day) is a day, started from an initiative of Tim Hall [https://oracle-base.com], where everyone can share their Thanks to the Oracle community by writing about a favourite product, an

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OAC 18.3.3: New Features

I believe there is a hidden strategy behind Oracle's product release schedule: every time I'm either on holidays or in a business trip full of appointments a new version of Oracle Analytics Cloud is published with a huge set of new features! OAC 18.3.3

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Looker for OBIEE Experts: Introduction and Concepts

Looker for OBIEE Expert, and Introduction describing Looker concepts with the eyes of an OBIEE Expert.

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Parsing Badly Formatted JSON in Oracle DB with APEX_JSON

Using APEX_JSON to parse malformed JSON documents allowing the extraction of all the information contained.

Making our way into Dremio

In an analytics system, we typically have an Operational Data Store (ODS) or staging layer; a performance layer or some data marts; and on top, there would be an exploration or reporting tool such as Tableau or Oracle's OBIEE. This architecture can lead to latency in decision making,

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Oracle Analytics Cloud Workshop FAQ

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to present the Rittman Mead Oracle Analytics Cloud workshop in Oracle's head office in London. The aim of the workshop was to educate potential OAC customers and give them the tools and knowledge to decide whether or not OAC was

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DevOps in OAC: Scripting Oracle Cloud Instance Management with PSM Cli

This summer we unselfish Italians decided to not participate to the World Cup to give another country the opportunity to win (good luck with that England!). This decision, which I strongly support, gives me lot of time for blogging! As already written, two weeks ago while in Orlando for Kscope18