We wish Dr. Talburt (Black Oak’s Chief Science Officer) well as he flies overseas to the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. From February 22 to 26th, Talburt is attending an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) meeting on developing the ISO 8000 Data Quality Standards. As…
Three Concepts in “Big Data” Systems You Need to Worry About
By Dr. John R. Talburt For some time, the industry has been moving towards the implementation of new distributed processing technologies and this movement is laying the foundation for the next generation of IT systems. While these new technologies are starting to free us from the tyranny of single-server processing…
Quality vs Quantity: What Matters Most in Analyzing Enterprise Data?
By Dr. John R. TalburtIn academia we say both quality and quantity are equally important to enterprise data. In business we would say, “It depends.” However, the real answer is that this is a false choice like the question of “what happened to the missing dollar?” in the bellboy story….
Four Use Cases of Big Data Technologies
By Dr. John R. TalburtBig data tools are key pieces of marketing technology in all corporate environments today. This has become so as the use cases for big data have changed and grown along with their potential. Now that this paradigm has clearly shifted, it is just as important to…
The Next Generation of HiPER: Entity Resolution in Hadoop
If you read any news about Big Data in 2015, chances are you will come across a reference to Hadoop. For years, the ability to process large data sets has been limited by processing power. Instead of running locally on one server, Hadoop processes data across clusters of less powerful…
Brief History of HiPER
Development of Black Oak’s High Performance Entity Resolution system (HiPER) began in 2009 and the first release (version 1.0) was completed in 2011. By 2012, HiPER version 1 was in use, and is still used today. The original release of HiPER runs locally and has advanced matching functions including Boolean…