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Why You Need a Data Science Platform
By Tim Rizzi Advanced analytics and predictive modeling are now essential to businesses looking to optimize decision making and deliver value to customers. But even as organizations invest more resources in big data and data science, executives are not yet realizing their anticipated return on investment. The reason is a less-than-ideal data science workflow where […]
Wal-Mart: IoT It could make a huge difference with improvement of customer experience.
Kim S. Nash The world’s biggest corporation in January combined its corporate information-technology and e-commerce-systems groups into a single unit called Walmart Technology, hoping to move faster to build technology to blend physical and online shopping. The company spends more than $10 billion a year on IT and in August signed a $3.3 billion deal […]
Baidu; Deep Bench Optimization for Deep Learning
At the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference on September 29, 2016, Baidu Research announced DeepBench, an open source benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of deep learning operations on different hardware platforms. Greg Diamos and Sharan Narang of Baidu Research’s Silicon Valley AI Lab talked at the conference about the motivation for developing the benchmark and […]
Self-driving Cars Will Push Chip Technology and Hardware Systems
Dean Takahashi, Venture Beat Google has been a leader in the nascent field of self-driving cars. The technology for those cars will not only push the limits of artificial intelligence and machine vision software, it will also push semiconductor chip technology and hardware systems. Daniel Rosenband, hardware engineer in the self-driving cars division at Google, […]
Applications of Deep Learning
Syed Danish Ali This post highlights a number of important applications found for deep learning so far. It is well known that 80% of data is unstructured. Unstructured data is the messy stuff every quantitative analyst tries to traditionally stay away from. It can include images of accidents, text notes of loss adjusters, social media […]
Healthcare Big Data Venture Funding Grows Q1
Venture capitalists poured more than $1 billion into the healthcare IT sector during the first quarter of 2016 as investors look to target data analytics and telemedicine for growth. The first three months also saw several large big data acquisitions as key players like IBM’s Watson Health unit continued their buying sprees. Market researcher Mercom […]
6 Ways Analytics And The Internet Of Things Will Transform Business
At IBM’s Insight conference, Bob Picciano, senior vice president of IBM Analytics, talked about the rise of the “cognitive business”, or an enterprise that engages with analytics to improve its customer relations, business processes, and decision-making capabilities. There are dueling predictions over how ubiquitous the Internet of Things will be, but most indicate that the […]
Ten Commandments of Business Intelligience
by Shant Hovsepian-The 10 Commandments of Business Intelligence in Big Data. Organizations today don’t use previous generation architectures to store their big data. Why would they use previous-generation BI tools for big data analysis? When looking at BI tools for your organization, there are 10 “Commandments” you should live by. First Commandment: Thou Shalt Not […]
Connected Assets, Big Data and Better Decision-Making
by Eddie Amos New power does not come from data itself, but from the evolution of connectivity. First we connected computers, then we connected 2.3 billion people annually and then we connected sensors and machines. There is no doubt that our lives as humans are evolving. New technologies, including everything from our refrigerators and Fitbits […]
Beyond Social: How Text Analytics Can Improve Business
By Alex Woodie: There’s been a lot of time and attention dedicated to mining social media with big data techniques. With more than 400 million tweets a day, you’re almost certain to find a trending Twitter topic that’s relevant to you. But text analytics’ potential is much bigger than social media, and some of its […]
