Getting started working with Apache Superset – the open source data exploration and visualization platform

Lucas Jellema

Apache Superset is an open source platform for data exploration and visualization. It can be described as an open, free alternative for Microsoft PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik and Oracle Analytics Desktop. Superset connects (through the SQL Alchemy framework) to dozens of SQL compliant databases and can work with CSV and JSON […]

Introduction to Oracle Machine Learning – SQL Notebooks on top of Oracle Cloud Always Free Autonomous Data Warehouse

Lucas Jellema

One of the relatively new features available with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse is Oracle Machine Learning Notebook. The description on Oracle’s tutorial site states: “An Oracle Machine Learning notebook is a web-based interface for data analysis, data discovery, and data visualization.” If you are familiar with Jupyter Notebooks (often Python […]

Tour de France Data Analysis using Strava data in Jupyter Notebook with Python, Pandas and Plotly – Step 2: combining and aligning multi rider data for analyzing and visualizing the Race

Lucas Jellema

In this article, I analyze the race that took place in stage 14 of the 2019 Tour de France in a Jupyter Notebook using Python, Pandas and Plotly and based on the Strava performance data published by Steven Kruijswijk, Thomas de Gendt, Thibaut Pinot and Marco Haller. In this previous […]

Tour de France Data Analysis using Strava data in Jupyter Notebook with Python, Pandas and Plotly – Step 1: single rider loading, exploration, wrangling, visualization

Lucas Jellema

In this article, I will show how to analyze the performance of Steven Kruijswijk during stage 14 of the 2019 Tour de France in a Jupyter Notebook using Python, Pandas and Plotly. Strava collects data from athletes regarding their activities – such as running, cycling, walking and hiking. Members can […]

What is Apache Drill and how to setup your Proof-of-Concept

Sam Vruggink 2

Apache Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine. Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Swift, NAS and local files. A single query can join data from multiple datastores. For example, you can […]

When to use the Oracle Database In-Memory option?

The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database In-Memory can result in huge improvement in application query performance. This post will answer the question: “what would be an optimal situation for using the Oracle Database In-Memory feature?” The […]

The AMIS Summary of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is available for download – 60-page white paper

Lucas Jellema

Oracle OpenWorld is a monster event – 10Ks of attendees, thousands of sessions and 100Ks of private conversations that all help convey and define the message about Oracle’s strategy and the roadmap for its close to 4000 thousand products. Concurrent with OOW is the JavaOne conference that – at a […]

OOW13: summarizing one week and 2000 sessions in 3 hours and a bit – the yearly AMIS OOW Review session – 10th October

Lucas Jellema

On Thursday 10th of October, the 12 man strong AMIS delegation at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2013 will present its findings in a 3 hour session at AMIS HQ in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. You are welcome to attend this free session (from 16.30 on, food provided). Please register here: http://www.amis.nl/nl-NL/evenementen/technologie-evenementen/oow-review. […]

OOW13: What questions to get answered and plans to see evolved at this year at Oracle OpenWorld Conference

Lucas Jellema

As I am about to start my ninth Oracle OpenWorld Conference, I am wondering what this year’s conference will have in store for me. My schedule is largely filled  up, I know who I am going to meet, where I have to speak and where I need to go. Now […]

Het Oracle OpenWorld Preview Evenement (5 september 2013) – 15 sprekers & sessies

Saskia van der Maat

Vanaf 22 september vindt in San Francisco de Oracle OpenWorld conferentie plaats: hét evenement waar Oracle haar productstrategie uit de doeken doet en waar Oracle specialisten van over de hele wereld ervaringen uitwisselen. Tegelijk met Oracle OpenWorld wordt ook de JavaOne conferentie georganiseerd, het trefpunt voor de wereldwijde Java gemeenschap. […]

Training Oracle ADF 11g, 15 tot en met 19 april

Van 15 tot en met 19 april geeft Luc Bors de 5-daagse ADF 11g training op het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In 5 dagen leer je de basis van Oracle ADF 11g. De training bestaat basis uit presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit […]

AMIS vat Oracle OpenWorld samen in speciale whitepaper

Saskia van der Maat

Als sluitstuk van de jaarlijkse Oracle OpenWorld conferentie brengt AMIS een whitepaper uit. Een handzaam document waarin het volledige verhaal van Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is gebundeld. Een team van AMIS was tijdens de conferentie in oktober nadrukkelijk aanwezig; als sponsor, deelnemer, netwerker en spreker – en als aandachtig luisteraar en […]

OOW 2012: The yearly AMIS Review from Oracle Open World and JavaOne – slides available

Lucas Jellema

Yesterday (16th October), 10 days of the end of the yearly Oracle show in San Francisco, AMIS organized its ‘Review from Oracle Open World 2012’ session with an overview of news, trends, announcements, special finds and interesting rumors . This session was ‘sold out’ (even though it was free). For […]

Kom kennismaken met AMIS en doe mee met uitdagende projecten

Hierbij nodigen we je uit om met ons kennis te komen maken. Ben jij een (junior) Oracle consultant die een stap verder wil maken? Wil je verder groeien en ontwikkelen tot principal consultant? AMIS geeft je de kans om die stap te zetten.  Bij ons krijg je de ruimte om […]

OOW 2012: Questions to get answered during this conference

Lucas Jellema

The show of the year is around the corner: on Sunday it will all start again, the Oracle Open World conference. Tens of thousands of developers, architects, administrators, project managers, decision makers and others involved with Oracle products one way or another are gathering in and around San Francisco. AMIS […]