Roaring Elephant

Another week, another Big Data News episode. After going over all the event ticket giveaways that are currently going on, we have an article that goes over the basics on ETL vs ELT and have some fun with R graphs by the XKCD web comic. We finish with an in depth article on columnar data stores and a quick shout-out to Apache Nifi. Breaking News Our thanks to our guest from H2O.ai:   John Spooner Director of Solution Engineering, h2o.ai       Dave: XKCD Curve Fitting in R http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2018/09/curve-fitting.html Artificial intelligence, data will be the differentiator in the marketplace https://www.information-age.com/artificial-intelligence-data-123475102/ Jhon: Scaling ETL: How data pipelines evolve as your business grows https://bytes.grubhub.com/scaling-etl-how-data-pipelines-evolve-as-your-business-grows-72ff6c744e6e The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/26/the-desig