O'Reilly on Data
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Ben Lorica looks ahead at what we can expect in 2019 in the big data landscape. For the end-of-year holiday episode of the Data Show , I turned the tables on Data Show host Ben Lorica to talk about trends in big data, machine learning, and AI, and what to look for in 2019. Lorica also showcased some highlights from our upcoming Strata Data and Artificial Intelligence conferences.
Rocket-Powered Data Science
DECEMBER 16, 2018
In a related post we discussed the Cold Start Problem in Data Science — how do you start to build a model when you have either no training data or no clear choice of model parameters. An example of a cold start problem is k -Means Clustering, where the number of clusters k in the data set is not known in advance, and the locations of those clusters in feature space ( i.e., the cluster means) are not known either.
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John Wheeler
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Last week, I had the distinct privilege to join my Gartner colleagues from our Risk Management Leadership Council in presenting the Q4 2018 Emerging Risk Report. We hosted more than 500 risk leaders across the globe in our exploration of the most critical risks. The Q4 2018 Emerging Risks Survey, designed by Gartner, captures and analyzes senior executives’ opinions on emerging risks and provides actionable insight on identifying and mitigating these risks.
Birst BI
DECEMBER 18, 2018
According to Gartner, more than 3,000 CIOs ranked Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics as the top differentiating technology for their organizations. If BI and Analytics is such a game-changer, then why is the average adoption rate in organizations only 32%? Despite the efforts of Cloud BI vendors making it easier for users to acquire, explore, and analyze data sources without IT dependency, lack of data literacy and analytic skills still hinder widespread adoption for data-driven decision m
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MLWhiz
DECEMBER 16, 2018
With the problem of Image Classification is more or less solved by Deep learning, Text Classification is the next new developing theme in deep learning. For those who don’t know, Text classification is a common task in natural language processing, which transforms a sequence of text of indefinite length into a category of text. How could you use that?
Rocket-Powered Data Science
DECEMBER 15, 2018
The ancient philosopher Confucius has been credited with saying “study your past to know your future.” This wisdom applies not only to life but to machine learning also. Specifically, the availability and application of labeled data (things past) for the labeling of previously unseen data (things future) is fundamental to supervised machine learning.
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Timo Elliott
DECEMBER 16, 2018
Am I the only one who does this? Algorithmically, social media is designed to be rage-inducing — deliberately, cynically — in order to get more clicks and show you more ads. And it’s ripping apart society.
Juice Analytics
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Christmas is a special time of year. We all have our favorite aspects of the season. In the spirit of Christmas and the Christmas carol, the 12 days of Christmas, here are the Juice team’s 10 favorite visualizations. You will recognize some of these as your own favorites, but some are exclusive to the Juicebox platform. To learn more about the visualizations exclusive to Juicebox and Juice design schedule some time with us.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Data analytics priorities have shifted this year. Growth factors and business priority are ever changing. Don’t blink or you might miss what leading organizations are doing to modernize their analytic and data warehousing environments. Business intelligence (BI), an umbrella term coined in 1989 by Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services, refers to the ability of end-users to access and analyze enterprise data.
Tim Mitchell
DECEMBER 17, 2018
When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the catalog to store and execute SSIS packages takes a lot of the manual work out of development and maintenance, particularly when it comes to package logging. When you execute a package.
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Teradata
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Monica Woolmer provides insight into determining the right analytic models to provide practical, actionable answers for business.
Jen Stirrup
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Have you seen the custom modules for AzureML yet? One neat custom module that I’ve been using is the Create Scatterplot module, which uses ggplot2 and R in order to create a scatterplot. It’s possible to do this in AzureML already but it takes a few extra steps, and it is good to be able to reduce clicks in doing activities where possible.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Standards and open source are closely linked. Open source allows you to stay on the cutting edge, to have the latest and most innovative technologies at your disposal at all times. No one company is going to outpace the rate at which an open source community produces innovative new software. In spirit and by definition, open source excludes all things proprietary.
Tim Mitchell
DECEMBER 19, 2018
At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful minimalistic: there are no big signs, no flashy advertising, and the word “fancy” would never be used to describe it. Inside, it is a small space, seemingly purposeful in its meager.
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erwin
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The driving factors behind data governance adoption vary. Whether implemented as preventative measures (risk management and regulation) or proactive endeavors (value creation and ROI), the benefits of a data governance initiative is becoming more apparent. Historically most organizations have approached data governance in isolation and from the former category.
3AG Systems
DECEMBER 20, 2018
Chances are you already know that data is important for business – really important. You’ve likely been barraged by a seemingly endless stream of data terms: BI technologies, big data techniques, advanced analytics, machine learning and AI. And despite the hype, you’re probably wondering what the fuss is all about. After all, don’t companies already make decisions based on data?
Smarten
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Biz Users Get Plug n’ Play Analytics, Data Scientists Get R Integration! When someone says ‘plug n’ play’, a lot of people think of the idea of plugging in an electrical appliance and having it run instantly. I think plug n’ play analysis should be that simple as well! My business users don’t have the skill, the patience or the time to become data scientists.
Tim Mitchell
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up and manage that functionality. SSIS catalog automatic log cleanup The SQL Server Integration Services catalog database – SSISDB – has several dozen logging tables that are used to capture details. The post SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup appeared first on Tim Mitchell.
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BI-Survey
DECEMBER 17, 2018
A lack of professional (54 percent) and technical (50 percent) know-how top the list of challenges to Hadoop implementations in BARC’s ‘Hadoop and Data Lakes’ survey. A regional comparison offers further insights. A lack of know-how to use new findings from data research (50 percent) was more frequently viewed as a challenge in Europe.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 21, 2018
So, you work in a datacenter. Maybe you spend a lot of time there. You might know your datacenter pretty well, but how well do you know what’s happening in other datacenters around the world?
Business Over Broadway
DECEMBER 20, 2018
The importance of data science and machine learning continues to grow in business and beyond. I did my part this year to spread interest in data science to more people. All of my top blog posts of 2018 (most reads) are all related to data science, with posts that address the practice of data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools and methods that are commonly used and even a post on the problems with the Net Promoter Score claims.
Tim Mitchell
DECEMBER 16, 2018
Yesterday I wrote about the little-known but still useful multiple flat file connection manager. In this post, I will briefly show a more commonly used alternative approach for processing multiple data files: the foreach loop container. The SSIS foreach loop container The foreach loop container is used to iterate through a discrete list of items at runtime.
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O'Reilly on Data
DECEMBER 19, 2018
We need to do more than automate model building with autoML; we need to automate tasks at every stage of the data pipeline. In a previous post , we talked about applications of machine learning (ML) to software development, which included a tour through sample tools in data science and for managing data infrastructure. Since that time, Andrej Karpathy has made some more predictions about the fate of software development: he envisions a Software 2.0 , in which the nature of software development h
Nutanix
DECEMBER 20, 2018
This September, we completed two years as a public company and nine years since we were founded in 2009.
Tim Mitchell
DECEMBER 15, 2018
When building an ETL pipeline to import data from a text file, it’s very common to have the incoming data spread across multiple files. For example, if you are ingesting files generated on a periodic basis (per day, per hour, etc.), you could have dozens or hundreds of files with identical structure. This is an ideal setup for building a. The post Using the SSIS Multiple Flat Files Connection Manager appeared first on Tim Mitchell.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 19, 2018
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Nutanix
DECEMBER 19, 2018
The close of the year is a time for reflection. It’s also a time to look forward to the promise of the what’s to come. In that spirit, we thought it would be interesting to share a few ideas we believe will be important in 2019 and beyond.
Nutanix
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Nutanix is excited to be sponsoring the 2019 National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference this coming January 13-15 in New York!
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