Teradata

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Every organization, in every industry, needs a Chief Data Officer. Use these guidelines to choose the one with the optimal skills and background for success.

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Optimization 59

KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Sebastian Thrun, the founder of Udacity, ruined my machine learning project and wedding.

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Machine Learning 145

Bruno Aziza

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Need a New Topic for Thanksgiving Dinner? How to Explain Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Anyone.and Make it Fun!

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IT 85

datapine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Over the past decade, business intelligence has been revolutionized. Data exploded and became big. We all gained access to the cloud. Spreadsheets finally took a backseat to actionable and insightful data visualizations and interactive business dashboards. The rise of self-service analytics democratized the data product chain. Suddenly advanced analytics wasn’t just for the analysts. 2019 was a particularly major year for the business intelligence industry.

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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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Corinium

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Data ethics, data culture and the future of advanced analytics were the three themes that dominated CDAO Fall in Boston, MA last week. As Corinium’s flagship conference, the annual event showcases how the world’s top data and analytics leaders are driving change within their organizations and reveals the key talking points for the year ahead.

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It is no secret that data science is difficult. Companies struggle to succeed with data science projects. Even Gartner predicts that by 2022 only 20% of analytics projects will deliver business value. That means about 80% will fail to deliver value. Thus, companies need to be very careful about running data analytics projects. There are many reasons for the failure of data science projects.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Overview What is the chi-square test? How does it work? Learn about the different types of Chi-Square tests and where and when you should. The post What is the Chi-Square Test and How Does it Work? An Intuitive Explanation with R Code appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Corinium

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The role of a CDAO will naturally evolve with their company’s data maturity, and our research shows that this evolution is well underway in organisations across the Middle East and Africa. To determine the current state of data analytics in the Middle East and Africa, we conducted a representative survey of 87 senior data analytics leaders from across the region to create our 2020 State of Data & Analytics MEA report.

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. Highlights from the interview include: Facilitating the transition from research to production in a robust way introduces a number of complications, Wampler says, including governance, GDPR, and traceability rules.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Open source is becoming the standard for sharing and improving technology. Some of the largest organizations in the world namely: Google, Facebook and Uber are open sourcing their own technologies that they use in their workflow to the public.

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Analytics Vidhya

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Overview Learn how to use Shapley values in game theory for machine learning interpretability It’s a unique and different perspective to interpret black-box machine. The post A Unique Method for Machine Learning Interpretability: Game Theory & Shapley Values! appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Corinium

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Time and time again, we hear from our contacts asking to hear about real use cases. We have partnered with Zendesk to share their customer stories. "The customer is always right" is a phrase that Zendesk takes very seriously. What a customer needs and wants? That's at the heart and soul of everything Zendesk does. Whether it’s small companies trying to rapidly grow and build their brand, or large companies trying to maintain customer loyalty, Zendesk aims to empower businesses to seamlessly serv

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erwin

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Enterprise architecture tools are becoming more important than ever. The International Enterprise Architecture Institute (IEAI) defines enterprise architecture (EA) as “the analysis and documentation of an enterprise in its current and future states from an integrated strategy, business and technology perspective.”. In the era of data-driven business, such perspective is critical.

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Enterprise Data-driven Data Governance Metadata 145

KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

This article will walk through an extractive text summarization process, using a simple word frequency approach, implemented in Python.

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Analytics 154

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.

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Initiative for Analytics and Data Science Standards (IADSS) is an organization working to develop standards around the roles in data science. They did a large survey earlier this year and they are starting to role out some of their results. Below is a video with some early results. Great Stuff! Data Science 101 is proud to be an IADSS Digital Community Partner.

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Corinium

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Joining us at the Data and Analytics in Healthcare (4-5 March | Melbourne), we are pleased to welcome Day Manuet, Data Analyst – Analytics at Epworth HealthCare. She shares her thoughts on the use of data within Australia's healthcare system, and what steps need to be taken to improve patient outcomes through data analytics and much more.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Businesses can use big data in many capacities, but those who use it for social media are at a huge advantage. It enables you as a social media marketer to get a closer look at your customer base, understand what drives purchasing decisions , and encourage consumers to pull the trigger. Using big data to augment your social media strategy provides a wealth of opportunities simply because social media is such an integral part of people’s lives.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Also: Deep Learning for Image Classification with Less Data; How to Speed up Pandas by 4x with one line of code; 25 Useful #Python Snippets to Help in Your Day-to-Day Work; Automated Machine Learning Project Implementation Complexities.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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.

Business Intelligence

Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

In the United States, it is a holiday week, so the news is pretty limited from many of the big cloud providers. Luckily, Amazon has come through with a flurry of machine learning announcements. Amazon is holding their annual re:Invent Conference next week, so maybe these announcements are precursors to some bigger news next week. We will have to wait and see.

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FineReport

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When it comes to data analytics tools, we always have questions. What is the difference between so many data analysis tools? Which is better? Which one should I study? Although this is a commonplace topic, it is really important, and I have been working hard to pursue the answer to this ultimate problem. If you go online to search for relevant information in this area, it is difficult to see a fair point of view.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

More and more often, businesses are using data to drive their decisions — which makes cutting-edge analytics and business intelligence strategies one of the best advantages a company can have. New technologies, especially those driven by artificial intelligence (or AI), are changing how businesses collect and extract usable insights from data. Here are the six trends you should be aware of that will reshape business intelligence in 2020 and throughout the new decade. 1.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Where does Java stand in the world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning? Learn more about how to do these things in Java, and the libraries and frameworks to use.

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Deep Learning Machine Learning 111

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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Sisense

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Blog. With data growing at a staggering rate, managing and structuring it is vital to your survival. In our Event Spotlights series, we cover the biggest industry events helping builders learn about the latest tech, trends, and people innovating in the space. We live in a world of data. Think back to when your company first started storing data, years ago: do any of you remember those clunky tapes, floppy disks, burning CDs, and DVDs?

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FineReport

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

1. What is automated reporting? Automated reporting is the process of regularly sending reports via a variety of ways according to set intervals or triggered tasks. In detail, with the automated reporting software , users can set up the time frame, frequency, or triggered events to send the reports at a specific time. For example, a scheduled report containing the weekly website traffic can be set to automatically send out every Sunday at 10 pm so that the marketing department can use this repor

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Data Science 101

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is creating a Data Management and Sharing Policy. They are currently looking for input on the policy. The NIH funds a lot of research, and this policy will affect the data and results researchers produce. NIH’s DRAFT Data Management and Sharing Policy: We Need to Hear From You! This is the time to share your thoughts.

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Management Data Science 99

KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

PyTorch Lightning is a lightweight framework which allows anyone using PyTorch to scale deep learning code easily while making it reproducible. In this tutorial we’ll use Huggingface's implementation of BERT to do a finetuning task in Lightning.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

Sales

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The future of banking is transforming. From changing customer behavior and expectations, rapid innovation in digital technology, burgeoning regulatory requirements, and the macroeconomic environment, the very definition of financial services is changing.

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Technology 86

Juice Analytics

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Confession time. I hope you’ll forgive me as I make my way to a larger point. Here goes: I love Crossfit. Yes, the fitness cult that you’ve heard too much about from your Facebook friends — the ones who spout off about WODs, AMRAPs, burpees, and Keto diets. Crossfit calls itself the “Sport of Fitness” with a “constantly varied, functional movement, executed at high intensity” which prepares you for the “unknown and unknowable.

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BizAcuity

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

There are several reporting tools and platforms available today, and enterprises usually choose the one that is best suited for their business needs. Two popular options for reporting platforms are SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Microsoft Power BI. SSRS and Microsoft Power BI. SSRS is a server-based reporting platform that comes free with SQL Server 2012.

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KDnuggets

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This post will describe various simplifications of Bayes' Theorem, that make it more practical and applicable to real world problems: these simplifications are known by the name of Naive Bayes. Also, to clarify everything we will see a very illustrative example of how Naive Bayes can be applied for classification.

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IT 107

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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