A Big Data Reading List for the Holidays

December 22, 2016 Kelly Hopkins Schupp

Happy holidays and best wishes for a prosperous new year!

For your end-of-year reading list, here is a summary of the most popular big data articles from 2016 per our social media followers:

Modernizing Your Big Data Architecture: Key Considerations for Success
Big Data and The Cloud: A Match Made in Heaven (Datafloq)
The Well-Managed Data Lake: A Strong Foundation for Data Science
How Big Data is Driving the Consumerization of Healthcare (US News & World Report)
Is Metadata Management Really That Hard In Hadoop?
Top-10 Blog Posts from Rock Star Data Scientists (Data Science Central)
Chlorine for Your Data Swamp: 4 Key areas for Automation
10 Ways Big Data is Changing How Startups Invest in Marketing (Tech Cocktail)
Building a Data Lake - Implementation Checklist for Success
Do Your Big Data Analytics Measure Or Predict? (7wData)

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Kelly Schupp is Vice President of Marketing for Zaloni. Kelly has 20 years of experience in the enterprise software and technology industry. She has held a variety of global marketing leadership roles, and previously worked at IBM, Micromuse and Porter Novelli. Kelly serves as Zaloni’s brand steward and is deeply passionate about the impact of data-driven marketing.
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