Dealing with big data
Syncfusion provides a Big data platform which is an easy to use Hadoop distribution for Windows. It can help you get started quickly. Syncfusion also provides a PMML processing library using which you can execute predictive analytic models. There is a Dashboard platform also available that can help visualize the data.

All of the above are available for free through the community license if you qualify.

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