Blogs by Mathias Coopmans

Developers to save the world

The Hadoop Summit that was hosted a couple of months ago in Brussels, had one presentation that definitely stood out: the one by futurist and commentator Ben Hammersley. 

"We won. Now we have a...

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Yahoo machine learning: increase accuracy by favoring scale over accuracy

At the Hadoop Summit earlier this year, Yahoo shared the story of the journey they made with Hadoop, right from the moment they started using it 10 years ago up until today. With 600 petabytes of data...

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Surviving disruption with Big Data [SAS FORUM]

Data and analytics are what is going to save you from being disrupted...

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Hadoop: ready for our future data needs

Are companies getting acquainted with Hadoop? How are they using it and is there a significant difference between different countries and industries? These and other questions are answered in this...

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4 lessons learned from early adopters of Hadoop

A couple of weeks ago, analytics lovers from all over Europe were brought together at the Hadoop Summit in Brussels. There were keynotes, exhibitors, panel discussions, workshops: Hadoop catered for...

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Ivy Vanderheyden

Ivy Vanderheyden

"When people are passionate about what they do, they will achieve great things” I strongly believe this to be true. The world of analytics is such a fascinating industry. Every day I discover new applications and problems we can solve through the use of analytics. As Marketing Director at SAS it is my job to bring these stories to life and inspire people to do great things with data. In my blogs I want to fascinate you with a mixture of two of my favorite topics: analytics and marketing.

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Hélène Ernotte

Hélène Ernotte

One of SAS’ credos is Creating Chances. And you might say Hélène Ernotte is the embodiment of that credo and ambition. The company’s HR Manager started as a Junior Recruiter at Microsoft in 2008. She joined SAS in 2012 as HR Business Partner, where she put her experience into practice and quickly became a valuable asset to the analytics firm. Though she is still only in her early thirties, Hélène is now in charge of all SAS’ HR activities in Belgium and Luxembourg. Her goal: to make sure SAS becomes the Great Place to Work of The Future.

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Véronique Van Vlasselaer

Véronique Van Vlasselaer

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Mathias Coopmans

Mathias Coopmans

Mathias Coopmans combines business curiosity with technical skills, a powerful combo many professionals can only dream about. Passionate about big data and business analytics, Mathias helps companies across South-West Europe create value from Hadoop - the open-source data storage and distributed processing platform – integrating it into their business, both on the technical side and at the strategic level. Analytics and Big Data put to work, the best of both worlds!

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Philippe Van Impe

Philippe Van Impe

“Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower scholars and professionals to apply data sciences to address humanity’s grand challenges.” There you go, Philippe Van Impe in a nutshell. Quoting his mission statement to describe Philippe is quite a lot easier than trying to sum up his professional activities: founder of the European Data Innovation Hub, founding partner of the Brussels Data Science Community, ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘startup coach’. You see, Philippe is a tough professional to capture in such a short bio!

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Frédéric Thys

Frédéric Thys

A mix of business curiosity, technical skills and the urge to write stories that matter…that is what drives Frédéric to blog about. His favorite topic? People Analytics! Or to showcase the value of analytics when unveiling unsuspected connections behind complex human systems and behaviors.
Buckle up for some clear, ready-to-use insights in how analytics measure the human attributes of consumers and employees to predict the success or failure of a venture, and to model and optimize teams and companies. Because business is about people, about making people happy and comfortable. And to be successful in business we need time and analytics to know how to make this happen.

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