Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

This is a great article about how investments in big data and analytics are not paying off yet!   https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-investments-big-data-analytics-yet-paying-off-bernard-marr

BeachHead at the HackerX Event for Data Science and Front End Developers at the legendary Masonic Temple in Toronto this week. Andrew Clyde was speaking on behalf of BeachHead.

“Digital currencies would accelerate and help scale a wave of service innovations that help advance financial inclusion, stimulate economic growth, and ultimately spur social progress.”   https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/05/central-banks-want-to-issue-national-digital-currencies-but-are-countries-ready/?ET_CID=850732&ET_RID=001b000000RvmfaAAB

For many years, Hadoop was the leading open source Big Data Framework. However, there is a newer and more advanced Spark that has become more popular.   https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hadoop-versus-spark-whos-winning-naveen-joshi

“Despite banks in all major developed markets providing mobile options, there is a new wave of emerging startups building digital, mobile and online-only banks from scratch.” http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/09/transforming-how-retail-banking-works/

“How can the blockchain begin to have real meaning in the lives of the two billion excluded individuals around the world?” http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/14/unlocking-blockchain-for-the-underbanked/

This is a great article about removing certain words from your resume in order for you to stand out from the crowd! http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/peter-harris/words-to-delete-from-resume_b_7561326.html

This is a great article about how to impress recruiters/hiring managers with your resume! http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/debra-goldblatt/how-to-write-resume_b_984992.html

This is a great article on Visa providing an API to bank card issuers in order to set spending controls for customers. https://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=28444

This article provides a great insight on Big Data and whether it is still a phenomenon. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-data-still-thing-2016-landscape-matt-turck