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Sensors Utilizing Breakout Garden

In this post, we look at adding a new IoT hardware for fast sensor setup, providing options for adding, removing, and prototyping sensors on the Raspberry Pi. → Read More

2018: The Year in Big Data

A data science expert and DZone Zone Leader reviews happenings in big data from 2018, discussing the most interesting tech released and conferences held. → Read More

Putting Streaming ML Into Production

What options are there for deploying ML and DL models into production? → Read More

Real-Time OCR and Hadoop Ingest

A data scientist provides a tutorial on how to use Hadoop, Python, and Apache NiFi to conduct real-time scanning of documents for OCR and store them in Hive. → Read More

Parsing Web Pages for Images With Apache NiFi

A big data expert and DZone Zone Leader gives a tutorial on how to pull and parse data from third party sites, using the example of pulling images from Pixabay. → Read More

Blocking People From Images

Learn how to use a pre-trained neural network on the MS CoCo dataset using Mask R-CNN in TensorFlow and Keras. → Read More

Convert JSON Data Files to Table DDL

A data scientist and DZone Zone Leader introduces an open source project he has started that allow developers to convert data stored JSON files to Table DDL. → Read More

Big Data DevOps (Part 2): Schemas!

We have a real need to use a Schema Registry because of Apache NiFi, Streaming Analytics Manager, and Apache Kafka. → Read More

Scala vs. Python for Apache Spark

This article compares the advantages of Python over Scala for Big Data cluster computing in Apache Spark, including scalability, libraries, and support. → Read More

Apache Hive vs. Apache HBase

Learn about the pros and cons of Apache Hive and Apache HBase and learn questions you should ask yourself before making a choice. → Read More

Apache Tika and Apache OpenNLP for Easy PDF Parsing and Munching

Learn how to use the updated Apache Tika and Apache OpenNLP processors for Apache 1.5 to parse PDFs. → Read More

OpenCV + Apache MiniFi for IoT

This tutorial will set up data ingestion and image recognition using a NanoPi Duo, Apache NiFi and MiniFi, OpenCV, and some shell and Python. → Read More

Using the Model Server for Apache MXNet

See how to use the open-source model server for Apache MXNet in order to utilize deep learning models with a REST server. → Read More

My Favorite Tech of 2017

Learn about advancements in the technology around streaming, analytics, devices, IoT, deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in 2017. → Read More

Big Data Is Growing and Apache Hadoop Is Legion

Learn about Apache Hadoop, a platform of tools, libraries, and services integrated together for NoSQL, SQL, batch, streaming, storage, and many other purposes. → Read More

TensorFlow for Real-World Applications

In this DZone Guide article, see why businesses must embrace deep learning and TensorFlow. The application of audio, video, and image data is key to success. → Read More

Real-Time TensorFlow Camera Analysis With Sensors

Bring Deep Learning to your IoT flows with this sample setup of a Raspberry Pi camera, connected sensors, and TensorFlow to allow for image analysis. → Read More

TensorFlow and NiFi: Big Data AI Sandwich

Learn about real-time ingesting and transforming sensor data and social data with NiFi and TensorFlow. → Read More

Creating Word Clouds From DataFlows With Apache NiFi and Python

easy to integrate with Apache NiFi so it's part of your big data pipeline, making it another great tool in the Data Engineer tool box. → Read More

Using Python for Big Data Workloads (Part 1)

Go over the basics and some examples and tutorials to get you started with using Python for Big Data workloads, various programming SDKs, APIs, and libraries. → Read More