Blink of an eye: Combining multiple big data sources, challenges and solutions

Provides learnings and simple solutions to several analytical and technical challenges faced by most mid-sized companies working in the insights and strategy sphere in the UK.

Introduction

The paper that you're reading is a little memoir of my journey into data science over the past six years - hardly the blink of an eye! From starting to dabble in text mining in 2012 to handling multiple large and complex sets in highly strategic projects, a huge number of challenges have arisen. This paper will talk about my learnings and give simple solutions to several analytical and technical challenges faced by most mid-sized companies working in the insights and strategy sphere - companies that don't have the kind of large-scale IT infrastructure support often taken for granted...

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