Analytics Vidhya
MARCH 27, 2019
Introduction Q-learning became a household name in data science when DeepMind came up with an algorithm that reached superhuman levels on ATARI games. It’s. The post Nuts and Bolts of Reinforcement Learning: Introduction to Temporal Difference (TD) Learning appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
MARCH 25, 2019
Analytics and business intelligence (BI) play an instrumental role in enabling an organization’s business units and IT to utilize its data in both tactical and strategic ways to perform optimally. To accomplish this, organizations must not only access the data, generate and apply insights from analytics, and communicate the results, they also must ensure that the analytics are presented in a way that leads to action.
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datapine
MARCH 25, 2019
In our data-rich age, understanding how to analyze and extract true meaning from the digital insights available to our business is one of the primary drivers of success. Despite the colossal volume of data we create every day, a mere 0.5% is actually analyzed and used for data discovery , improvement, and intelligence. While that may not seem like much, considering the amount of digital information we have at our fingertips, half a percent still accounts for a huge amount of data.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 27, 2019
Watch highlights from expert talks covering AI, machine learning, data analytics, and more. People from across the data world are coming together in San Francisco for the Strata Data Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The journey to the data-driven enterprise from the edge to AI. Amy O'Connor explains how Cloudera applies an "edge to AI" approach to collect, process, and analyze data.
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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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.
Analytics Vidhya
MARCH 24, 2019
Introduction Computer vision is among the hottest fields in any industry right now. It is thriving thanks to the rapid advances in technology and. The post 16 OpenCV Functions to Start your Computer Vision journey (with Python code) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives
MARCH 29, 2019
I am happy to offer some insights on Salesforce.com drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research.
Data Leaders Brief brings together the best content for data, strategy, and BI professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 27, 2019
Jed Dougherty plots AI examples on a matrix to clarify the various interpretations of AI. Continue reading Scoring your business in the AI matrix.
datapine
MARCH 27, 2019
“Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.” – Steve Jobs. We’re living in the midst of the age of information, a time when online data analysis can determine the direction and cement the success of a business or a startup that decides to dig deeper into consumer behavior insights.
Insight
MARCH 25, 2019
Design and code to deploy a self-hosted content delivery network. kubeCDN?—?a self-hosted CDN based on Kubernetes. Check it out on GitHub: [link]. In this blog post, I discuss the design and implementation of kubeCDN , a tool designed to simplify geo-replication of Kubernetes clusters in order to deploy services with high availability on a global scale.
Corinium
MARCH 27, 2019
Investment managers are expected to spend more than $1.6 billion on alternative data sets in 2020. The sheer volume of data produced will necessitate a change in how businesses acquire, process, and use it. Identifying and acquiring data sets is only the beginning of an investment firm’s data strategy. The key will be the ability to integrate a broad range of custom data sets, to share them flexibly, and to extract key insights in time.
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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?
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
Google BigQuery co-creator Jordan Tigani shares his vision for where cloud-scale data analytics is heading. Continue reading Data warehousing is not a use case.
DataRobot
MARCH 29, 2019
AI has tremendous potential for benefiting humanity in every area of how we live and work. While most people realize this fact, their hopes for AI also come with a note of caution. A recent survey reported that 77% of Americans expressed that AI would have a “very positive” or “mostly positive” impact on how people work and live in the next 10 years.
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 28, 2019
If someone asked you which industry is the most innovative , you probably wouldn’t say the financial industry. In fact, that would probably be the last industry on your list. Nonetheless, the financial industry is using big data more than ever. The success of both Fintech companies and traditional banks will hinge on their ability to leverage big data to its fullest potential.
BizAcuity
MARCH 29, 2019
Data lakes are centralized repositories that can store all structured and unstructured data at any desired scale. Data can be stored as-is, without first structuring it, and different types of analytics can be run on it, from dashboards and visualizations to big data processing, real-time analytics, and machine learning to improve decision making. The power of the data lake lies in the fact that it often is a cost-effective way to store data.
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📌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.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
Lauren Kunze discusses lessons learned from an analysis of interactions between humans and chatbots. Continue reading Chatting with machines: Strange things 60 billion bot logs say about human nature.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 26, 2019
IBM announced Informix V14.10 at Think 2019, revealing a host of new capabilities to clients and partners in attendance. Now, after beta testing with more than 25 customers and partners, it is available to the public.
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 27, 2019
“Google Search Reveals Community College Student’s Social Security Number.” While this may seem like a headline you would find on sites like The Onion , this is something that actually happened. This situation occurred when staff members at a community college started to test a new type of online application that utilized files full of sensitive and unaltered data on a server that was not secure.
Boris Evelson
MARCH 26, 2019
Information technology keeps moving forward at an ever increasing pace. Business Intelligence (BI) technology isn’t falling behind and keeps constantly evolving. Gone are the days when vendors categorized themselves as IT focused and enterprise scalable vs. business user focused BI platforms mostly going after departmental and line of business (LOB) use cases.
Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com
Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 27, 2019
Shafi Goldwasser explains why the next frontier of cryptography will help establish safe machine learning. Continue reading AI and cryptography: Challenges and opportunities.
DataRobot
MARCH 25, 2019
Data scientist time is a precious, expensive commodity. Do you truly understand what your data science talent works on all day? Are they spending way too much time researching data science theory, coding the same data preparation tasks over and over again, and maintaining scripts for model factories? Take a serious look at what your data scientists actually do.
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 28, 2019
The Internet of Things is one of the most groundbreaking trends affecting consumers and businesses all over the world. According to a report by Gartner, the economic impact of all products connected to the IoT will exceed $300 billion by next year. A number of factors are contributing to the proliferation of the IoT. One of the most influential changes is the increasing capacity of big data.
Cloudera
MARCH 26, 2019
Roughly a quarter of Cloudera’s customers have clusters on public cloud, with a majority of them on AWS. These customers often look for cloud infrastructure best practices guidance as they venture into AWS cloud resources for the first time. Some of the questions asked include: How many AMIs do I need? Should I use EBS or S3 for storage? Many of these questions are answered in the Cloudera on AWS reference architecture guide.
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Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
Theresa Johnson outlines the AI powering Airbnb’s metrics forecasting platform. Continue reading Forecasting uncertainty at Airbnb.
Andrew White
MARCH 28, 2019
It’s all the rage- we need to be ‘data driven’. Unfortunately important ideas and advice are often dumbed-down or simplified to singular messages for ease of consumption and this can lead to yet more problems. To be data driven is a great example. What is such a thing? Conceptually to be data driven sounds like a situation whereby a decision ought to have its roots founded in data.
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 25, 2019
Technology has had a profound impact on the insurance industry. Insurers are relying heavily on big data as the number of insurance policyholders also grow. Big data analytics can help solve a lot of data issues that insurance companies face, but the process is a bit daunting. It can be challenging for insurance companies who have not adjusted to this just yet.
MLWhiz
MARCH 29, 2019
This post is the fourth post of the NLP Text classification series. To give you a recap, I started up with an NLP text classification competition on Kaggle called Quora Question insincerity challenge. So I thought to share the knowledge via a series of blog posts on text classification. The first post talked about the different preprocessing techniques that work with Deep learning models and increasing embeddings coverage.
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.
O'Reilly on Data
MARCH 28, 2019
The Strata Data Award is given to the most disruptive startup, the most innovative industry technology, the most impactful data science project, and the most notable open source contribution. Continue reading Winners of the Strata Data Awards 2019.
IBM Big Data Hub
MARCH 25, 2019
IIRA is an AI-powered regulatory on-ramp which helps businesses comply with a variety of regulations, and is available as an add-on to IBM Cloud Private for Data (ICP for Data).
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 26, 2019
Forbes contributor Kalev Leetaru recently wrote a fantastic article about the intersection of big data and website hosting. Leetaru notes that big data and cloud technology have led to the evolution of web hosting services. Cloud technology is changing the logistics of many traditional hosting plans. WordPress hosting is a prime example. How Big Data is Changing the Future of WordPress.
Dataiku
MARCH 28, 2019
Do you remember the days before Uber, Lyft, or Gett? Standing in the street trying to hail a taxi waiting for the moment a free cab might drive by and spot you? These days that world seems so far away. And you might often wonder: how do these apps work? After all, that set price is not a random guess.
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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