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Big Data - What is it?

Big data is at the core of every industry’s growth. From politics to social media and everything in between. It assists us with predicting trends, visualising data and learning more about the world in which we live in.

In this article we will be uncovering the following:

1. What is Big Data?
   
2. How is Big Data made?
   
3. Why is Big Data important and who uses Big Data?
   
4. How can Big Data be used in business?
   
5. Five V’s of Big Data.

AWS Select Partner

Fathom, an Irish based software development company, are pleased to announce we have been recognised as a ‘Select’ Consulting Partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Partner Network (APN).

Creating Quick Reusable Demos with Terraform

Here at Fathom, R&D is what we do. As a result of that, there are a lot of demonstrations of what we’ve done, how we’ve provided value to customers in the past and what we focus our efforts on. Recently, I revisited an old project of ours to get it ready for a demo with a prospective client - it was the classic scenario of “If you come back to this project in 6 months, will you remember what you did?

NodeconfEU

Fathom recently attended the NodeconfEU conference at Lyrath Estate in Kilkenny, Ireland.

NodeconfEU is an annual event that brings together member of the global NodeJS community. The main event organizer was Nearform, who were the main sponsors along with IBM and Microsoft. Red Hat, Google and Nodesource also sponsored.

Building a Chatbot with AWS Lex

A lot of people will be familiar with Alexa, Amazon’s helpful and cheery assistant that’s ready to play music for you, tell jokes and assure you it’s not here to take over the world. However, not so many will know of Lex - a deep-learning conversational interface that’s effectively the brains behind that friendly female voice on the Amazon Echo and Echo Dot.