The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. So it should come as no surprise that Google has compiled and forecast time series for a long time.

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John Wheeler

MARCH 6, 2019

It has been 5 years since Gartner embarked on the journey to enhance our coverage of the risk management technology marketplace. That journey included in-depth survey research and countless interactions with our end-user clients to understand their need to better manage strategic, operational and IT/cybersecurity risks.

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John Wheeler

JULY 15, 2019

Gartner kicked-off it’s global series of 2019 Security & Risk Management Summit Conferences last month in Washington, DC. It’s here where we receive direct feedback from both technology providers as well as end-users on emerging trends and technologies for security and risk management. Source: Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services — which includes hosted private cloud and dedicated cloud infrastructure as a service — will hit $20.4 Such private cloud solutions eliminate the risks of multitenancy data leakage, for example, a key CIO concern with AI. We have no choice. “We We have no choice.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The model could potentially be used to identify conditions that raise the risks of wildfires and predict hurricanes and droughts. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts people living in Africa, Australia, North America and Europe will face health risks due to rising temperatures and heat waves.

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John Wheeler

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In the span of a week, the integrated risk management (IRM) technology market has experienced significant consolidation. Four vendors from Gartner’s inaugural 2018 IRM Magic Quadrant have joined forces to evolve their legacy governance, risk and compliance (GRC) offerings to better compete in the IRM market (see figure below).

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O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 22, 2019

Errors in analysis and forecasting may arise from any of the following modeling issues: using an inappropriate functional form, inputting inaccurate parameters, or failing to adapt to structural changes in the market. Time-variant distributions for asset values and risks are the rule, not the exception.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Not only have finance teams had to close companies’ books remotely, but they’ve also been required to provide the insight and information needed for some extremely complex decision-making, and continuously plan and forecast for events with little or no historical context. Tip 2: Improving accounts receivable procedures.

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Smarten

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Today’s self-serve predictive analytics and forecasting tools are designed to support business users and data analysts alike. Predictive analytics is the process of forecasting or predicting business results for planning purposes. No longer is this process the sole responsibility of data scientists or IT staff.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Drought Risk Assessment and Prediction. million between 1988-2017 and the resulting food insecurity has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, if not more. One particular company, Watershed, hopes to be able to build a tool in which raw data can yield insight and concrete actions in which carbon emissions are reduced.

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bridgei2i

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Sales forecasting: Accurately forecasting sales is one of the most difficult tasks for most sales managers. A 2017 white paper produced by Harvard Business Review in collaboration with Apttus states that “B2B revenue generation processes offer huge opportunities to benefit from the (AI) technologies.” Certainly not.

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bridgei2i

JULY 28, 2020

She’s the founder and CEO of StatWeather, a company, which was recognized as number one in climate technology globally in the year, 2017, by the Energy Risk Awards. So, then we need systems, analysts, database administrators, people who can set in place, these types of backup systems for risk management. Not just that.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If we observe label vector y and feature vectors $x_1, cdots, x_d$ we can write the differentiable empirical risk minimization problem with a squared loss as$$ min_theta left| y - sum_{j=1}^d c_j(x_j) right|^2 $$Note that we use squared loss for the simplicity of presentation; one can use any differentiable loss in their application.

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bridgei2i

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A strong case study where a global MNC used AI enabled deal classification, data input enhancement, account analytics, and external data feeds to transform their sales organization in Nigeria resulting in “a substantial increase in sales productivity and forecasted Y-o-Y revenue growth.” and deliver incremental value for the most part.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 19, 2023

Supply Chain: Demand forecasting, supply chain optimization, risk assessment and mitigation. The burden from growing event volumes is reflected in budgets that are expected to grow from an estimated USD 4 billion in 2017 to over 6 billion by 2020. Fairness : AI models should treat all groups equitably.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The IT sector in Ukraine had stabilized after the 2014 Russian incursion with growth accelerating beginning in 2017 and “supercharging” in 2020 and 2021, says Katie Gove, senior director-analyst in Gartner’s Technology and Service Provider Research division. Gartner forecasts no end in sight for the global talent crunch.

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Domino Data Lab

MAY 20, 2021

This carries the risk of this modification performing worse than simpler approaches like majority under-sampling. note that this variant “performs worse than plain under-sampling based on AUC” when tested on the Adult dataset (Dua & Graff, 2017). Using the adap learning algorithm to forecast the onset of diabetes mellitus.

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Smarten

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Tools like Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis , Smart Visualization and Self-Serve Data Preparation allow the enterprise to transform the average business user into a Citizen Data Scientist and to better plan and forecast and make confident decisions.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Most of us have seen the news stories and forecasts about the Internet of Things (IoT) and what a vast market and field of opportunity it will be. Data is sent to a central hub in the cloud where evidence-based algorithms can effectively predict which patients are at risk.

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Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

People who attended JupyterCon 2017–2018 can attest, an “industry poster session” includes an open bar, catered hors d’oeuvres, lots of mingling … to paraphrase feedback from JupyterCon, “As a tech person, would I get up extra early to meet strangers for coffee at 8:00 am? The ability to measure results (risk-reducing evidence).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

At Fractal, Tiwari will be responsible for the company’s digital transformation and overseeing IT operations, cybersecurity, and risk management. . In his 20 years’ experience in IT, Verma has led work on security, risk compliance, IoT, RPA, cloud, and business continuity planning. He will be based in Gurugram.

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datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This is one of the major trends chosen by Gartner in their 2020 Strategic Technology Trends report , combining AI with autonomous things and hyperautomation, and concentrating on the level of security in which AI risks of developing vulnerable points of attacks. It’s an extension of data mining which refers only to past data.

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Jet Global

MARCH 2, 2022

For one, companies that place an emphasis on their environmental and social impacts and responsibilities, have been shown to be more resilient and that they’re able to manage their risks better during a crisis. The SFDR aims to give more transparency about sustainability and provide a common set of rules on sustainability risks.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He specializes in process reengineering and risk reduction. John Lawrence, Partner & CFO, Wavecrest Growth Partners: Lawrence, a Partner & CFO at Wavecrest since 2017, previously ran a consulting firm and served as CFO for private equity and venture capital firms.

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