Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Standards in Predictive Analytics: R, Hadoop and PMML (a white paper by James Taylor)

James Taylor (@jamet123) is remarkable in capturing the nuances and mood of the data analytics and decision management industry and community. As a celebrated author and an avid writer, James has been writing more and more about the technologies that transform Big Data into real value and insights that can then drive smart business decisions. It is not a surprise then that James has just made available a white paper entitled "Standards in Predictive Analytics" focusing on PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language, R, and Hadoop.



Why R? 

Well, you can use R for pretty much anything in analytics these days. Besides allowing users to do data discovery, it also provides a myriad of packages for model building and predictive analytics.

Why Hadoop? 

I almost goest without saying. Hadoop is an amazing platform for processing predictive analytic models on top of Big Data.

Why PMML? 

PMML is really the glue between model building (say, R, SAS EM, IBM SPSS, KXEN, KNIME, Python scikit-learn, .... ) and the production system. With PMML, moving a model from the scientist's desktop to production (say, Hadoop, Cloud, in-database, ...) is straightforward. It boils down to this:

R -> PMML -> Hadoop


But, I should stop here and let you read James' wise words yourself. The white paper is available through the Zementis website. To download it, simply click below.

DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER

And, if you would like to check James' latest writings, make sure to check his website: JTonEDM.com


Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Zementis/Datameer Webinar - Best Practices for Big Data Analytics with Machine Learning (View Recording)

Please watch the  Zementis and Datameer webinar entitled "Best Practices for Big Data Analytics with Machine Learning."

VIEW RECORDING

In this webinar, we demonstrate through an industry specific use case how to identify patterns and relationships to make sound predictions using smart data analytics. You will learn best practices on:
  • Selecting the right machine learning approach for business and IT
  • Visualizing machine learning on Hadoop
  • Leveraging existing predictive algorithms on Hadoop




Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Zementis and Teradata Announce In-database Scoring for Big Data


As a result of its partnership with Teradata, Zementis is excited to announce the availability of the Universal PMML Plug-in (UPPI) for Teradata analytic platforms. It does not get easier than this! Simply deploy your predictive models built in R, IBM SPSS, SAS EM, ... and score your big data, directly in-database, where it resides.

The Zementis Universal PMML Plug-in (UPPI) enables the execution of standards-based predictive analytics directly within the Teradata Unified Data Architecture™. Users can now easily deploy predictive models built in R, IBM SPSS, SAS EM and other popular analytic tools on Aster and/or Teradata to achieve scale. The bridge between these systems is PMML, the Predictive Model Markup Language standard. It allows for models to be instantly moved from the scientist's desktop to the database where they will be executed.


As described by Teradata's Chris Twogood, VP for Product and Services Marketing, "by partnering with Zementis, we are able to offer high performance, enterprise-level predictive analytics scoring for the major analytics tools that support PMML. With Zementis and PMML, we are eliminating the need for customers to recode predictive analytic models in order to deploy them within our database. In turn, this enables an analyst to reduce the time to insight required in most businesses today."

Available for Teradata and Teradata Aster databases, UPPI leverages the massively parallel databases as a scalable, high-performance, scoring engine that easily processes through petabyte-scale data volumes. UPPI takes full advantage of the high-performance data warehouse with its massively parallel processing capabilities for rapid execution of standards-based predictive analytics based on the PMML standard.

Models built in most commercial and open source data mining tools can now instantly be deployed in Teradata or Aster. The net result is the ability to leverage the power of standards-based predictive analytics on a massive scale, right where the data resides.

Welcome to the World of Predictive Analytics!

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