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Getting To Trusted Data Via AI, Machine Learning And Blockchain

Bruno Aziza

Establishing trust in data is critical. Organizations are now employing AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain to ensure data reliability and integrity.

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What AI Means to a Retailer Dedicated to Customer Experience

Birst BI

Retailers are focused more than ever on quickly adjusting to changing customer preferences and demand. Specialty’s Café and Bakery is a great example of a retailer that is using data to drive decisions related to product development and selection, inventories, staffing, and more to attract and keep customers. For example, retailers rely on business intelligence (BI) tools to predict future demand for products around known factors such as special events or holidays.

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4 steps for running a machine learning pilot project

IBM Big Data Hub

Running a machine learning pilot project is a great early step on the road to full adoption. To get started, you’ll need to build a cross-functional team of business analysts, engineers, data scientists and key stakeholders. From there, the process looks a lot like the scientific method taught in school.

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Cassandra vs. HBase: twins or just strangers with similar looks?

ScienceSoft

Similar at first glance, Cassandra and HBase actually are quite different in terms of architecture, performance and data models. What are these differences and how do they influence the tasks that HBase and Cassandra perform? It’s all here.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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Brittleness and incremental improvement

DMBS2

Every system — computer or otherwise — needs to deal with possibilities of damage or error. If it does this well, it may be regarded as “robust”, “mature(d), “strengthened”, or simply “improved” * Otherwise, it can reasonably be called “brittle” *It’s also common to use the word “harden(ed)” But I think that’s a poor choice, as brittle things are often also hard. 0.

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IDG Contributor Network: The eye-opening new world of alternative investor data

CIO Business Intelligence

Investors, whether they be day traders at home or managers of large hedge funds, are data hungry. They pore over earnings reports and company filings and jump to read news alerts. If they’re on the super-sophisticated side, they may be using data models. And if they’re on the cutting edge, they may be using new “alternative” data sets to inform their decisions.

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What Are Data Trends and Patterns, and How Do They Impact Business Decisions?

Smarten

In this article, we will focus on the identification and exploration of data patterns and the trends that data reveals. The business can use this information for forecasting and planning, and to test theories and strategies. Let’s look at the various methods of trend and pattern analysis in more detail so we can better understand the various techniques.

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Exploring the Current State of Embedded Analytics

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. Embedded analytics is everywhere. From consumer gadgets, intelligent things, and applications to the rapidly expanding Everything as a Service (XaaS) subscription economy, analytics has been ubiquitously embedded into all areas. Read More.

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Brittleness, Murphy?s Law, and single-impetus failures

DMBS2

In my initial post on brittleness I suggested that a typical process is: Build something brittle. Strengthen it over time. In many engineering scenarios, a fuller description could be: Design something that works in the base cases. Anticipate edge cases and sources of error, and design for them too. Implement the design. Discover which edge cases and error sources you failed to consider.

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Real-time business value comes from real-time data

IBM Big Data Hub

Data is business. The pace at which an organization can process data improves its ability to react to business events in real time.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

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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Self-Serve Data Preparation for YOUR Users

Smarten

Self-Serve Data Prep Should be Just That – Self-Serve! Self-serve has many meanings. You can pump your own gas, you can serve yourself at a buffet, and sometimes you can even do your own data preparation. You will notice that I said ‘sometimes’ That is because you have to choose the right tool if you want to really participate in self-serve data preparation.

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Teaming on data: IBM and Hortonworks broaden relationship

IBM Big Data Hub

Data is driving business. And as volumes climb with no end in sight, companies have a decision to make: harness and extract insight from that data, or watch your competitors do it as they pass you by.

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What is the Holt-Winters Forecasting Algorithm and How Can it be Used for Enterprise Analysis?

Smarten

This article provides a brief explanation of the Holt-Winters Forecasting model and its application in the business environment. What is the Holt-Winters Forecasting Algorithm? The Holt-Winters algorithm is used for forecasting and It is a time-series forecasting method. Time series forecasting methods are used to extract and analyze data and statistics and characterize results to more accurately predict the future based on historical data.

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Data democratization is driving self-service analytics

IBM Big Data Hub

Data democratization allows data to be accessed across the organization and empowers individuals to use the data in their decision making and gain critical business insights. Data democratization is fast becoming a game changer as it’s moving towards a user centric micro-services based architecture.

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8 Steps to Transformation at Speed & Scale – Your Guide to Deploying StratOps

📌Is your Data & AI transformation struggling to really impact the business? Discover the game-changing StratOps approach that: Bridges the Gap : Connect your Data & AI strategy to your operating model, to ensure alignment at every level. Prioritizes Outcomes : Focuses on concrete business outcomes from day one, rather than capabilities in isolation.