MapR Experts Author New Book on AI and Analytics

By Ken Briodagh September 11, 2018

According to a recent announcement, MapR Technologies, a data platform for AI and Analytics, has released a new book, “AI and Analytics in Production,” written for a C-level execs (CIO, CTO, CDO), business team leaders, architects, system administrators, data engineers and data scientists.

Authored by Ted Dunning, PhD, board member of the Apache Software Foundation and chief application architect at MapR, and Ellen Friedman, PhD, principal technologist at MapR and Apache committer, and published by O’Reilly Media, the book examines best practices for maximizing the value of data-driven applications in production.

Dunning and Friedman assert that value from big data becomes real when the data-intensive applications built to extract value from data go into production. But for that to be successful, businesses must have a way to take action based on the insights from those applications, action that is tied to practical business goals. Running a large-scale data project in production can be challenging, but there are ways to make it easier and more likely to succeed.

The book provides a guide to best practices for production based on the authors’ combined experiences and observations of real-world production use cases across a wide range of industries so that readers can gain from what has made others successful.

Readers will learn:


Ken Briodagh is a writer and editor with more than a decade of experience under his belt. He is in love with technology and if he had his druthers would beta test everything from shoe phones to flying cars.

Edited by Ken Briodagh


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