60 minutes in the cloud: Predictive analytics made easy Rakesh Ranjan August 12, 2014 ranjanr@us.ibm.com

Meetup.com/Bluemix Meetup.com/BigDataDevelopers

Agenda

§  What is Bluemix?

§  Analytic Warehouse Service in Bluemix

§  7 big ideas

§  Building predictive analytics application

§  Hands-on lab

What is Bluemix? PaaS (Platform as a Service) Environment –  Self-service application hosting environment –  Bring your app (e.g. war), we'll host it for you (e.g. app server)

•  Deploy in seconds, not weeks or months •  App developer focuses on their business logic, we worry about

infrastructure –  App developer shouldn't need to worry about

•  Installing & managing the runtime, framework or even VM/IaaS •  Java, Ruby, PHP, Node, ... •  Liberty, Rails, Sinatra, Stand-alone, ...

–  Managing & scaling of app made easy (load-balancing too) •  Enables agile and continuous/rolling development/deployments •  Scaling: e.g.: cf scale myApp –i 20

– Service management is done for you Based on CloudFoundry –  Open Source & IaaS Independent –  No vendor lock-in –  Strong, vibrant and growing community

Cloud foundry layer App deployer "pushes" the app to CloudFoundry – Specifying number of instances, memory, buildpack, etc... – CloudFoundry places it on a VM along with Framework & Runtime – Each app is run in isolation using "Warden" - simulates private VM Client's requests are routed to an instance of the app

Slide courtesy: Doug Davis, IBM

Analytics Warehouse Service features

§  Powered by BLU technology

§  http://bluforcloud.com/blu-acceleration-technology/

§  Simple and powerful (quick data load from your laptop, public or private object storage)

§  One click live sync from Cloudant NoSQL database

§  Highly secured (256 bit encryption for data in rest)

§  Fully managed analytic service in the cloud

§  R and R-studio integration for statistical analysis

§  Excel integration for reporting

§  Connect your own BI tools

§  Built-in auditing and compliance feature

Analytics Warehouse

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Predictive analytics made easy

§  Use R and R-studio to build your own predictive models

§  In-application analytics Vs. In-database analytics

§  A Linear prediction model that correlates the memory usage with the number of active users.

§  bluR package greatly simplifies data access and manipulation in R

§  Use your own algorithm and push application in BlueMix that uses Analytics warehouse

§  http://bludemo.mybluemix.net/

Bluemix Resources

§  https://ace.ng.bluemix.net - public bluemix §  https://developer.ibm.com/answers?

community=bluemix - Developer community forum §  https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/# - bluemix docs §  http://bluforcloud.com/idug/analyze-with-r.html -

Hands on Guide

Hands-on Lab followed…