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Data Science in 90 Seconds: K-Means Clustering

By Laura Kahn 4 hours ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 4 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]

By Gilad David Maayan 4 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Big Data is a term used to describe large volumes of data in disparate formats that streams into various organizational systems at high-speed. This data requires the use of special tools to analyze it and derive insights from it that can give businesses a competitive edge. […]

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

Digital preservation specialist Preservica recently announced in a press release the latest version (v5.10) of its market-leading active digital preservation and access platform. The fully supported and maintained single platform is available across Preservica’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise portfolio including Cloud Edition Essentials, Cloud Edition Professional and Enterprise Private Cloud. Shaped by user group priorities […]

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

Wallarm recently announced in a press release that it will sponsor Google Next July 24-26, 2018 in San Francisco, CA. Please, register for the conference using the code NEXTWAL for a special discount. While there, visit booth W2212 at the Moscone Center West during the show hours Although a relatively new entrant in the application security space, […]

By James Kobielus 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author James Kobielus. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a resource hog. AI-powered programs will grind to a halt unless developers continue to seek out the fastest, most scalable, most power-efficient and lowest-cost hardware, software and Cloud platforms to run their workloads. As the AI arena shifts toward workload-optimized architectures, there’s a growing need […]

By Paul Barba 3 days ago

Click to learn more about author Paul Barba. Agile methodologies have become the go-to approach for Data Science projects. A central element of these methodologies is iterative development. In an Agile project, solutions and requirements are constantly evolving based on new understandings, input and feedback. Unsurprisingly, Agile project management methodologies are characterized by short development […]

By Keith Foote 3 days ago

Eight, (www.eightsleep.com) the technology company focused on improving the way we sleep —recently announced in a press release the launch of its AI-powered personal Sleep Coach feature, available in the Eight iOS and Android apps. The app is a companion to the company’s best-selling Smart Mattress product. In addition to the newly added sleep coaching […]

By Keith Foote 3 days ago

Recently, Vade Secure, the global leader in predictive email defense, announced in a press release a new offering for Office 365 customers looking to enhance protection against advanced phishing, spear phishing, and malware attacks. Vade Secure for Office 365 is the only email security solution that’s fully integrated into Office 365, offering a native user […]

By Keith Foote 3 days ago

Wrench.AI (https://wrench.ai/), recently announced in a press release that its proprietary artificial intelligence platform has officially launched and is now open to enterprise and client-driven organizations world-wide. The launch comes on the heels of a tremendous response from the market during the pre-launch phase of the platform. With features uniquely designed with the B2B audience […]

Jun 26 Webinar: Noise to Signal – The Biggest Problem in Data

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 26, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by About the Webinar Our ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but our ability to parse out insights from data has not. In the 90s, an organization’s data would live […]

By Shannon Kempe 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 27, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Data may be everywhere, but finding what you need can be downright challenging. That’s partly due to the complexity of modern information landscapes; and partly due to decades of manual […]

By Julie Lowery 2 weeks ago

DATE: June 28, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Artificial Intelligence (AI) may conjure up images of robots and science fiction. But AI has practical applications in today’s data-driven organization for product recommendation engines, customer support, inventory management, and more. To support AI in […]

By Julie Lowery 3 weeks ago

DATE: July 5, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar At one time, there were well-stated distinctions between the Chief Data Officer and Chief Analytics Officer roles. But not today. In some organizations, this role confusion actually causes serious concerns. John and Kelle will revisit […]

By Shannon Kempe 3 weeks ago

DATE: July 10, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Organizations across most industries make some attempt to utilize Data Management and Data Strategies. While most organizations have both concepts implemented, they must fully understand the difference to fully achieve their goals. This webinar will […]

By Shannon Kempe 3 weeks ago

DATE: July 11, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is hosted by: This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar This webinar will focus on key considerations in governing the Data Lake including stewardship, data ingestion, metadata management and data quality. Key topics to be […]

By Shannon Kempe 3 weeks ago

DATE: July 12, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar As the shortage of trained data scientists threatens to prevent firms from reaching their analytical potential, a new class of products and services is emerging that promises to relieve the stress on enterprise management. These […]

By Julie Lowery 3 weeks ago

DATE: July 19, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Organizations are dedicating tremendous resources to improve their analytical capabilities. The focus for many is to improve the quality, understanding, availability and thus the value of the data for data scientists and analysts. These people […]

By Julie Lowery 3 weeks ago

DATE: August 2, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Hadoop, which entered the scene with great fanfare, seems to be on its way out. Or is it? Are the pundits just being pontificating, or is there something to their end-of-life proclamations? Investment in Hadoop […]

Data Science in 90 Seconds: K-Means Clustering

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By Mackenzie Thompson 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Mackenzie Thompson. Algorithms influence the rhythm of work more than workers themselves. Which is to say, the algorithms responsible for how we work do more to help than hinder us: They strengthen our ability to communicate; to respond to events; to aid first responders who deal with life-threatening events; […]

By Chirag Shivalker 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Chirag Shivalker. BIG Data; though the term is coined everywhere and considered mainstream, is no longer a buzzword. However jazzy the concept of “Big Data” gets, simply having and collecting more data is no longer enough. We have now entered the space where business-oriented “Data Strategies” should be the […]

By Cathy Nolan 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Cathy Nolan. Who hasn’t Googled their name at one time or another? It can be affirming, as in “Wow, they know I gave a presentation at a conference”, or scary as in “Wow, they know I have a police record!” Yes, there isn’t much they don’t know, and it’s not […]

By Don Boxley 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]

By Pete Johnson 7 days ago

Click to learn more about author Pete Johnson. A Linux shell is a Linux shell is a Linux shell. If you take that attitude, it opens up the possibility of running monolithic applications on Kubernetes. As more and more greenfield development shifts to a Microservices, Cloud-native-based architecture that’s hosted on top of container clusters, every […]

From Data Discovery to Smart Data Discovery: The Next Generation is Here

By Jennifer Zaino 4 days ago

There’s Data Discovery and then there’s Smart Data Discovery. The former has become associated with discovering answers buried in Big Data in order to drive business value, whether to enhance decision-making, boost revenue, or improve the customer experience. Smart Data Discovery has been defined by Gartner as “a next-generation Data Discovery capability that provides business […]

By Paramita Ghosh 5 days ago

In an era where Business Analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks, Augmented Analytics promises hopes for the future generation of Citizen Data Scientists. In Augmented Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) algorithms and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques together achieve automated Data Preparation and Business Intelligence. This innovative technology offers sophisticated tools to […]

By Keith D. Foote 6 days ago

First came relational databases, which provide a useful comparison for understanding non-relational databases. Invented by Edgar F. Codd in 1970, the relational database arranges data into different rows and columns by associating a specific key for each row. Almost all relational database systems use Structured Query Language (SQL) and are remarkably complex. They are traditionally […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

The North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA) reports that there were 50,000 bike share bicycles in the U.S. as of 2016, an increase of 30,000 bikes since 2012. Those bikes made 28 million trips in 2016, a 25 percent increase over 2015, and as of 2017, more than 130 North American cities had bike share programs. […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Data as an asset comes up a lot in conversations these days. Data Governance enters the picture because of the huge role Data Strategy plays in supporting the business strategy – and the need for that to happen without compromising data security, according to Mary Levins, Data Governance Principal at Sierra Creek Consulting. Among the […]

By Michelle Knight 2 weeks ago

One organization’s Data Lake may very well be someone else’s Data Swamp. The difference lies in how data is curated. What does this mean? For starters, a Data Lake describes where vast amount of data of various types and structures can be ingested, stored, assessed, and analyzed. Specifically, Data Lakes make it easy for Data […]

By Paramita Ghosh 3 weeks ago

A significant issue in Enterprise Data Management today is Data Quality, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any Analytics or Business Intelligence system. In an era of automated and Self-Service Business Analytics, Data Quality has assumed even more importance as average business users do not often have […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 3 weeks ago

“Whether you’re working with Big Data, or whether you’re working with very small data sets, you always need to prepare data for anything that you’re doing with it,” said Paige Schaefer, Product Marketing Manager for Trifacta. Schaefer and colleague Matt Derda, Senior Customer Success Manager, recently talked with DATAVERSITY® about Trifacta’s Data Wrangling technologies. “Data […]

By Jennifer Zaino 3 weeks ago

The Big Data Executive Survey released by NewVantage Partners earlier this year shows that close to three-quarters of the respondents surveyed believe they are getting measurable value from their Big Data and Artificial Intelligence projects, which the survey considers as extensions of Analytics capabilities. That number, NewVantage reports, is half again higher than in the […]

Preservica Delivers New Research and Innovation in Digital Preservation

By Keith Foote 3 hours ago

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By Keith Foote 4 days ago

Hortonworks, Inc.® (NASDAQ: HDP), a leading provider of global data management solutions, announced in a recent press release “the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0, which delivers significant new enterprise features including containerization for faster and easier deployment of applications, and increased developer productivity. The new version of HDP enables customers to more quickly, reliably and […]

By Keith Foote 4 days ago

Attunity, Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), leading provider of data integration and big data management software solutions, announced in a recent press release “new product enhancements to its data integration platform that improve data governance capabilities for organizations moving data to clouds and data lakes. As these new analytic systems grow in size and scale, a lack […]

By Keith Foote 4 days ago

In a recent press release, “BlueData®, provider of the leading Big-Data-as-a-Service (BDaaS) software platform, announced the new summer release for BlueData EPIC™. This release builds upon BlueData’s innovations in running large-scale distributed analytics and machine learning (ML) workloads on Docker containers, with new functionality to deliver even greater agility and cost savings for enterprise Big […]

By Keith Foote 5 days ago

Archive360® announced, in a press release, “the expansion and enhancement of its industry leading intelligent information management solution, Archive2Azure™. The newly enhanced intelligent information management and archiving platform enables organizations of all sizes across virtually every industry vertical, to better capture, extend, onboard, and manage numerous types of structured and unstructured data into their Microsoft […]