by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
In recent years, Parquet has become a standard format for data storage in Big Data ecosystems. Its column-oriented format offers several advantages: Faster query execution when only a subset of columns is being processed Quick calculation of statistics across all data...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Poetry is often seen as a pure art form, ranging from the rigid structure of a haiku to the fluid, unconstrained nature of free-verse poetry. In analysing these works, though, to what extent can mathematics and Data Analysis be used to glean meaning from this...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Now that we’ve explored Hadoop’s role and relevance, it’s time to show you how it works under the hood and how you can start working with it. To start, we are breaking down Hadoop’s core components — HDFS for storage, MapReduce for processing, YARN for resource...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
LoRA (Low Rank Adaptation – arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685) is a popular technique for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on the cheap. But 2024 has seen an explosion of new parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, an alphabet soup of LoRA alternatives: SVF, SVFT,...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 13, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
GenAI has already made an extraordinary impact on enterprise productivity. Marc Benioff has stated Salesforce will keep its software engineering headcount flat due to a 30% increase in productivity thanks to AI. Users leveraging Microsoft Co-pilot create or edit 10%...
by Dr. Owns | Mar 11, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
DBeaver is the most powerful open-source SQL IDE, but there are several features people don’t know about. In this post, I will share with you several features to speed up your workflow, with zero fluff. I’ve learned these as I’m currently digging deeper into the tools...
