O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Alan Nichol on building a suite of open source tools for chatbot developers. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Alan Nichol , co-founder and CTO of Rasa , a startup that builds open source tools to help developers and product teams build conversational applications. About 18 months ago, there was tremendous excitement and hype surrounding chatbots, and while things have quieted lately, companies and developers continue to refine and define tools for b

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

All too often, software vendors view analytics as the end rather than the beginning of a process. I’m reminded of some of the advanced math classes I’ve taken in which the teaching process focused on a few key aspects of a mathematical proof or solution, leaving the rest of the exercise to be worked out by the students. In other contexts, you may hear people say the numbers speak for themselves.

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Bruno Aziza

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Now more than ever, businesses are deploying machine learning to drive business results. Learn about the state of machine learning in business today.

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Rocket-Powered Data Science

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When I was out for a walk recently, I heard a loud low-flying aircraft passing overhead. This was not unusual since we live in the flight path of planes landing at a major international airport about 10 miles from our home. In this case, I thought to myself that the sound seemed more directly overhead and lower than normal as well as being suggestive of a larger than average jet aircraft.

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Juice Analytics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Looking to transform your data into a valuable, customer-facing data product? From concept to design and launch, we've worked with dozens of companies to create successful data products. Our checklist provides seven evaluation criteria to see if your data product has what it takes to succeed. Does your data product. Solve a distinct problem? Meet users where they work?

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Today's manufacturing organizations operate in a dynamic environment characterized by increased complexity and uncertainty. The financial performance of manufacturers hinges on their ability to rapidly adapt to constantly-changing conditions, from demand fluctuations to delivery challenges while managing production costs efficiently. Prescriptive analytics helps companies see where process improvements could have the biggest, most immediate impact on their bottom line.

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Business Over Broadway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Retention marketing is about preventing your valuable customers from churning. Reducing customer churn requires you to know two things: 1) which customers are about to churn and 2) which remedies will keep them from churning. In this paper, I show you how marketers can improve their customer retention efforts by 1) integrating disparate data silos and 2) employing machine learning predictive analytics.

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Bruno Aziza

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Every company is a data company. Whether they know it or not. So argue Jedidiah Yueh and Randy Bean in this provocative look at the corporate landscape. The authors argue that data companies will reinvent the world.

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MLWhiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We all know about the image classification problem. Given an image can you find out the class the image belongs to? We can solve any new image classification problem with ConvNets and Transfer Learning using pre-trained nets. ConvNet as fixed feature extractor. Take a ConvNet pretrained on ImageNet, remove the last fully-connected layer (this layer’s outputs are the 1000 class scores for a different task like ImageNet), then treat the rest of the ConvNet as a fixed feature extractor fo

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

SQL development is not a new concept. However, as the data warehousing world shifts into a fast-paced, digital, and agile era, the demands to quickly generate reports and help guide data-driven decisions are constantly increasing. This puts new pressures on the people working behind the scenes to prepare and serve data in a consumable way to a growing audience with various levels of access credentials and technical expertise.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Scott Hebner, VP, Marketing, IBM Analytics & AI, spoke with Dave Vellante in NYC on the eve of the September 13 taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Sharad Goel and Sam Corbett-Davies on the limitations of popular mathematical formalizations of fairness. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Sharad Goel , assistant professor at Stanford, and his student Sam Corbett-Davies. They recently wrote a survey paper, “A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning,” where they carefully examined the standard statistical tools used to check for fairness in machine learning models.

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Business Over Broadway

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The devastating impact of natural disasters can be measured in human suffering, loss of life and economic impact. It is estimated that 2.5 million people have been directly affected by natural disasters since 2000. Additionally, natural disasters have had an economic impact of $1.3 trillion since 2003. Even though natural events such as floods, earthquakes or hurricanes are inevitable, I believe that their impact can be mitigated through the application of data and analytics.

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John Wheeler

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This week, Gartner hosted its annual Security & Risk Management Summit in London and the buzz at the event centered on the new risks associated with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The discussion was fueled by the recent cyber attack experienced by British Airways (BA). BA disclosed the data breach just prior to our event and it was headline news in London throughout the week.

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Peter James Thomas

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The peterjamesthomas.com Data and Analytics Dictionary is an active document and I will continue to issue revised versions of it periodically. Here are 20 new definitions, including the first from other contributors (thanks Tenny!): Artificial Intelligence Platform. Data Asset. Data Audit. Data Classification. Data Consistency. Data Controls. Data Curation (contributor: Tenny Thomas Soman ).

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The worst thing about an inside job is that once it’s detected, it’s usually too late. Early detection is critical to prevent considerable damage arising out of insider threats to the business. But that’s easier said than done! Whether it’s a rogue trader in a bank or brokerage or someone illegally sharing company intellectual property or intelligence, illegal insider actions put enterprises at risk of losing millions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The future that data experts and science fiction authors have long predicted is here.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Hilary Mason explores the current state of AI and ML and what’s coming next in applied ML. Continue reading Practical ML today and tomorrow.

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

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Paul Turley

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A service provider or vendor might want to publish multiple copies of a report that should connect to different database servers or databases. In a true multitenant service solution, we would have a singe database with row-level user mapping tables that filter data by the logged in user.

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Smarten

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

How Can My Business Use Assisted Predictive Modeling to Optimize Resources? There was a time, not so long ago, when predictive analysis, business forecasting and planning for results involved guesswork and lots of unscientific review of historical data. But, today’s competitive business landscape and rapidly moving markets demand more than guesswork.

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Hurwitz & Associates

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

By Jean S. Bozman. VMware is harmonizing the traditional management style of VMware software stacks with CSP cloud provider services – making it possible for VMware to help its customer base move more quickly to cloud-enabled environments. The VMware products that support this strategy were announced at VMworld 2018 in August, 2018. The aim of VMware’s strategy for hybrid cloud and multi-cloud deployments is to provide a consistent environment – whether it runs on-premises in a data center, or o

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

While the Internet of Things (IoT) represents a significant opportunity, IoT architectures are often rigid, complex to implement, costly, and create a multitude of challenges for organizations. First of all, in order to effectively pull together an end-to-end architecture for IoT, organizations must manage multiple vendor solutions, validate that they work together, integrate them to ensure the right functionality, and provide for future enhancement compatibility.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Data application resiliency is high on the agenda for CIOs. Gary Brunell from IBM looks at the in-house solution developed by Hotels.com, and how the IBM Big Replicate offering compares.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Ziya Ma discusses how recent innovations from Intel in high-capacity persistent memory and open source software are accelerating production-scale deployments. Continue reading Derive value from analytics and AI at scale.

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Paul Turley

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

I’m managing an Agile team project using Microsoft Teams – the new project management platform integrated with Office 365. Teams is a simple and useful project management tool but it’s new and light on features. Using Power BI, we want to show the hourly task burn-down for each two-week sprint.

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Smarten

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Augmented Data Preparation for Business Users Offers Many Benefits! If your enterprise is entangled in complex data preparation and manipulation, and you want to simplify and expand the use of data preparation to leverage data integration and self-service data prep, you need to explore the potential of augmented data preparation. Data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) can be a complex, time-consuming process, but self-serve data prep is ETL for business users.

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Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Like many institutions of higher learning, Indiana University (IU) has been making use of business intelligence (BI) for years. But even with a wealth of data at its disposal, the university's business units struggled to transform that data into insights that could drive meaningful decisions. Its multi-year Decision Support Initiative (DSI) changed all that.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in force since May 25, strengthens and unifies data protection laws for individuals within the European Union (EU), making personal data privacy a fundamental right for all. Traditionally, while companies have relied on time-consuming manual processes to achieve compliance, Accenture and Cloudera are harnessing advances in technology to simplify the compliance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Daniel Hernandez, VP, IBM Analytics, shares news about IBM's Hortonworks partnership and why OpenShift, IBM Cloud Private, and IBM Cloud Private for Data are gaining momentum.

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O'Reilly on Data

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If we’re going to think about the ethics of data and how it’s used, then we have to take into account how data flows. Data, even “big data,” doesn’t stay in the same place: it wants to move. There’s a long history of language about moving data: we have had dataflow architectures, there's a great blog on visualization titled FlowingData , and Amazon Web Services has a service for moving data by the (literal) truckload.

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