Hadoop: 10 Problems That Can Use Hadoop
Mike Pearce summarizing a presentation about problems where Hadoop can be a good fit:
- Modeling True Risk
- Customer Churn Analysis
- Recommendation engines
- Ad Targeting
- Point of Sale Transaction Analysis
- Analyzing Network Data to Predict Failure
- Thread Analysis/Fraud Detection
- Trade Surveillance
- Search Quality
- Data “Sandbox”
As you can see, most of these boil down to “Aggregate Data, Score Data, Present Score As Rank”, which, at it’s simplest, is what Hadoop can do.
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Original title and link for this post: Hadoop: 10 Problems That Can Use Hadoop (published on the NoSQL blog: myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.mikepearce.net/2010/08/18/10-hadoop-able-problems-a-summary/
