Recently I had to connect a Java application to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download the SAP Hana Cloud Platform SDK from here: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#cloud Choose the latest “Java Web Tomcat 8”… Continue reading How to connect to SAP HANA using JDBC
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How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
Recently I had to connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA and I made some notes along the way: The first step is to get the SAP HANA JDBC driver, a file called ngdbc.jar. The quickest way is to download and install the SAP HANA client from the SAP Software Download Center, and then extract the… Continue reading How to Connect Pentaho Data Integration to SAP HANA
Nate Silver And The Age of Data Journalism
A few days ago, the new version of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight went live, backed by ESPN. According to Silver’s observations, explained in his site’s manifesto, the market is ripe for a data-oriented journalism. I totally agree. A day doesn’t go by in which I hear or read an argument that painfully drags along because of… Continue reading Nate Silver And The Age of Data Journalism
Moneyballing criminal justice
One of the problems of justice systems everywhere is that they depend on subjectivity and have near zero data-mining expertise. Because of that, tons of money are wasted in keeping low-risk offenders in jail. As the attorney general for New Jersey, Anne Milgram changed the panorama of her state’s criminal justice system. By applying statistics… Continue reading Moneyballing criminal justice