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The field of predictive analytics continues to grow, and we are growing with it, entering what bloggers, researchers, and industry authorities are calling the Hybrid Age of technology. "Hybrid" implies that humans and computers will be working together more closely than ever, and it is impossible to ignore the impact that these advances will have on our futures. Read more about making room for data on our blog.

Companies use big data to inform business decisions, but it can also be used to provide unique experiences for consumers. Roadtrip Mixtape, a web application that combines Google Maps with Spotify, creates playlists based on the artists whose hometowns you travel through. Read more about music and big data.

With HDInsight Succinctly, you will learn how to leverage higher-level languages to process data with HDInsight, Microsoft's Hadoop distribution powered by the cloud. Author James Beresford will guide you through setting up a Hadoop cluster, using Azure Blob Storage to store data, how to connect HDInsight with other Microsoft BI tools, and much more. Download HDInsight Succinctly today.

Data collection is important to any business, but if you don't know how to analyze it, your data is just wasting storage space. With R Succinctly, you will learn to overcome the initially intimidating command line interface, share and reproduce analyses, and use RStudio to work with more variables and data sets. Add R to your data analysis tool kit today by downloading R Succinctly.