Live Webinar on Big Data Technology Stack - Basics

Details about the FREE Webcast on Big Data Technology Stack

Webcast Topic: Big Data basics and Discussion about Big Data Technology Stack

Organized by: Omni212

Presented by: Vishal Soni

When: Dec 8 2015, 9:30 to 10:30 IST (Indian Standard Time), which is Tue, Dec 8, 2015 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time

Location: Online (using your computer, laptop tablet or smartphone).

How: You will need to install GoToMeeting on your device, and then on specified time, join the meeting using below code: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/213904341

You can also dial in using your phone.United States : +1 (408) 650-3123

How to see number of LinkedIn followers for any member?

How to see number of LinkedIn followers for any member?

By default, LinkedIn shows number of connections on the public profile page of any LinkedIn member. But when number of connections are more than 500, it displays value as 500+.
I was wondering if it was possible to see exact number of followers (which is considered equal to number of connections).
The processes is easy, but i have seen people struggling for getting this done, so thought of writing the steps with screenshots to help out everyone. (I myself din't knew it, thanks to Sourabh.Jain for helping me out with this).

Here is the simplest way of doing this:

1) Log in into your LinkedIn account.

2) In the search box at the top of screen, Search for the person whom followers you wish to see.

3) On the public profile page, click on the drop down menu, and select 'View recent activity'

4) The activity page will show the total number of followers of that person.

Top-Big-Data-Quotes

It flows like this:
1) You set your priorities.
2) You collect data
3) Based on data you take decision to meet priorities.
Analytics helps in step 3. While Big Data helps in step 1.


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"Analytics helps you in taking a right decision, while Big Data tells why should you take a decision at all"

Big Data Training - Uncover the potential of data

Businesses are keen to adopt Big Data to unleash hidden insights from wealth of digital data. But wonder where to start!

Advaiya presents two days Big Data training for IT professionals on May 9-10, 2015 at Udaipur

Big Data demand will generate 4.4 million jobs in the IT Industry all around the world, but due to lack of skills in the individuals only 1/3rd of these jobs will be fulfilled. - Gartner

Understand Big Data concepts and latest technologies with hands-on exercises and real life business case studies Join this action packed training to develop Big Data skills with industry experts

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Buzzing the Big Data Buzzer

The Big Buzz around Big Data is turning out into a new phenomenon. Big Data, which fundamentally deals with enormous volume, velocity and variety of data, has itself generated huge volumes of data (in form of blogs, articles, infographics, videos, and many more formats) across all channels and networks. And this is growing very rapidly, resulting further into generation of more data. Literally, trends shows that the term Big Data has gained too much popularity in past few years.

Figure 1. Google trends showing results for word 'Big Data'

And even more interesting statistics would be that the word ‘Big Data’ on google search returns around 44,100,000 results (on 6th Oct 2014). (Source: Google.com)

So besides the increase in number of people interested in Big Data, these facts also corresponds that the digital activities around Big Data would be generating more number of clicks, page views, web logs and all sorts of structured and unstructured chunks of information increasing the digital content around Big Data. These would be further analyzed by number of analysts and data scientists, creating more number of jobs, and relevant trainings, articles, and all sorts of digital content.

In a way, Big Data boom may be fulfilling its own prophesy.

Here are some key facts about Big Data.

Big Data Universal Statistics:

• 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created daily.  90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone (Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/what-is-big-data.html )

Benefits solving Real Life Problems:

• Healthcare: 20% decrease in patient mortality by analyzing streaming patient data 
• Telco: 92% decrease in processing time by analyzing networking and call data
• Utilities: 99% improved accuracy in placing power generation resources by analyzing 2.8 petabytes of untapped data (Source: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/bigdata/industry.html )

Big Data Future Predictions:

• By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States (Source: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2207915 )

References:

http://marciaconner.com/blog/data-on-big-data/

 http://wikibon.org/blog/big-data-statistics/

http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240111798/Analysts-Data-visualization-tools-key-to-big-data-analytics-success

http://www.bigdata-startups.com/think-bigger-developing-a-successful-big-data-strategy-for-your-business/

Social Media Marketing

Few days back, I got a chance to talk about any topic of my interest and a nice audience to listen to me.

Looking at the current list of hot-spoken topics, I choose to share my thoughts and experiences about Social Media marketing, covering its importance and few take care areas. Here is how it goes:

(image source: http://www.heraldboy.com)

First of all, let us again recall what Social Media is. Social Media is a platform for interaction among people, where people can create, share and discuss information and ideas in digital form, across virtual communities. These virtual communities may or may not have any real-world existence. 

This social media has changed our lives drastically. There are already many articles available on this:

1)    Look Up by Gary Turk

2)    5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives – Mashup Article

So, i just gave a thought about it, which what is social media doing to us, or it has already done. It has given us the power to create multiple identities. Traditionally, in the real world, along the course of our lives, we do stuff like we go to school, then we go to college, we do job, we progress gradually, and that’s how we create our own identity. But with the advent of Social Media, this has changed. As any individual log-in into a social networking site, say Facebook, it creates a new virtual identity of himself. With this identity, it can attach his choices and preferences as per his own wish. And since there is no validation process for these claims made on social media, people are free to put any real or false detail, without any hesitation. They can put pictures of other people as their own profile pics, can claim to be living in any random location of choice, can talk about products they never used, or places they never visited. And due to lack of validation, the trust factor on unknown people is also almost negligent over social networks.

The complete story, including the commonly used tools and techniques, advantages of using social media, and few take care areas while using social media are available here: http://bit.ly/SMM-Blog


Please feel free to send your suggestions and comments about the same.

Touching EPM (Enterprise Project Management)

As a part of our job, my profile includes working with different technologies across various domains. This helps us in understanding the bigger picture about the Enterprise Architecture across various verticals.

After the exploration of the EPM tool 'Smartsheet', this time we had another chance to get a closer look at the EPM. This time we expected a deeper dive, and for that, first step was to create a baseline of our existing knowledge into a common repository.

So here is a jargon of the common terms, acronym etc. around EPM:

EPM (Enterprise Project Management) - A streamlines procedure for managing projects running across the organization.
PMO (Project Management Office) - A group or department within an organization, that deals with, defines and maintains standards for project management.
EPMO (Enterprise Project Management Office) - An enterprise level PMO.
PMM (Project Management Methodology) - The standards or guidelines followed for EPM. There are several standards (PMMs) available, including:

• PRINCE2 (Projects in Controlled Environments, version 2) - Developed by the UK government agency Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and is used extensively within the UK government as the de facto project management standard for its public projects. 
• PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) -  Recognized as standards by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
• IPMA (International Project Management Association) - A federation of National PM associations, supporting role-specific competence development and certification guidelines.

The PMBOK Guide recognizes 47 processes that fall into five basic process groups and ten knowledge areas that are typical of most projects, most of the time.

The five process groups are:

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Closing

The ten knowledge areas are:

1. Project Integration Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Time Management
4. Project Cost Management
5. Project Quality Management
6. Project Human Resource Management
7. Project Communications Management
8. Project Risk Management
9. Project Procurement Management
10. Project Stakeholders Management

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a not-for-profit professional organization for the project management profession with the purpose of advancing project management. In 2007, it earned the ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024 accreditation from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for granting credentials and certifications in the field of Project Management.

Here is a short list of certifications and credentials offered by PMI:

Credentials:

• Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Program Management Professional (PgMP)
• Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP)
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
• PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)

Certification:

• PMI Certified OPM3 Professional