Top Hortonworks Blogs from 2017 - Hortonworks

Try Apache Spark 2.1 & Zeppelin in Hortonworks Data Cloud by Vinay Shukla Wanna try Spark 2.1 Now? Well, you are in luck… Hortonworks Data Cloud ("HDCloud") for AWS gives you a quick way to launch a Spark cluster in the cloud. Read More Machine Learning & its Impact on the Future for Insurance by Cindy Maike First and foremost, machine learning WILL change the way insurers do business. The insurance industry is founded on forecasting future events and estimating the value/impact of those events and has used established predictive modeling practices – especially in claims loss prediction and pricing – for some time now. Read More A Reference Architecture for the Open Banking Standard… by Vamsi Chemitiganti Financial services firms specifically deal with manifold data types ranging from Customer Account data, Transaction Data, Wire Data, Trade Data, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), General Ledger and other systems supporting core banking functions. When one factors in social media feeds, mobile clients & other non traditional data types, the challenge is not just one of data volumes but also variety and the need to draw conclusions from fast moving data streams by commingling them with years of historical data.