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Recap of Hadoop News for August

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News on Hadoop-August 2016 Latest Amazon Elastic MapReduce release supports 16 Hadoop projects. TechCrunch, August 2, 2016 Amazon released its latest version of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0 that is aimed to help data scientists and other interested parties looking to manage big data projects with hadoop. The EMR release includes support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. ( Source: [link] ) Hadoop vendor MapR raises another $50M as it sets its sights on IPO.

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Bank of America Hadoop Interview Questions

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Bank of America has tapped into Hadoop technology to manage and analyse the large amounts of customer and transaction data that it generates. Big Data analytics and Hadoop are the heart of ‘BankAmeriDeals’ program, that provides cashback offers to bank’s credit and debit card holders. The bank collects transaction data from various propensity models and the bank learns which customers are likely to be benefited from refinancing their credit cards with a competitor.

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