Almost a year ago, Patricia Florissi Blogged about a Distributed Data Analytics platform and the World Wide Herd (WWH).  The concept of creating a global network of distributed Apache Hadoop instances forming a single virtual computing cluster. More recently, Florissi talked about how the challenge at the heart of federated analytics is when you decentralize data analytics, you have to take steps to ensure that you can verify the integrity of all the participants and all the data sources in the analytics process. “How do you get there?” she asked. “The answer is to bring together the unique capabilities of federated analytics … READ MORE