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The Future of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated technologies will be present across many industries, within a considerable number of software packages, and part of our daily lives by 2020. Gartner has also predicted that by 2020, AI will become one of the top five investment priorities for at least 30 percent of Chief Information Officers. Global software […]

By Paul Bates 11 hours ago

Click to learn more about author Paul Bates. The analysis of Big Data is a phenomenon that has gained considerable momentum in the past decade. The transition into the information age has made the analysis and visualization of Big Data vital to the success of any business. Data visualization tools enable researchers to gain insight into […]

By A.R. Guess 11 hours ago

A new press release states, “Understanding how the human brain works is considered one of the greatest unsolved scientific challenges. Neuroscientists have amassed an enormous amount of detailed factual knowledge about the brain, yet there remains no unifying theory as to what intelligence is and how the brain produces it. After more than a decade […]

By A.R. Guess 11 hours ago

According to a recent press release, “Neural Technologies today announces the launch of the Optimus Ecosystem, an integrated compilation of solutions spread across the areas of Revenue Management, Digital Integration and Advanced Automation & Analytics that is able to address effectively the challenges associated with digitizing business processes across the enterprise. Optimus Ecosystem is the […]

By A.R. Guess 11 hours ago

A recent press release reports, “Huawei Enterprise Business Group shared how its new digital platform strategy will enable governments and enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and achieve new levels of innovation and growth. Huawei also announced its AI + Digital Platform that adapts to various scenarios across industries; and a partnership with Tianjin Binhai New […]

By Laura Kahn 1 day ago

Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 8 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 Kevin McCarthy 1 day ago

Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. If you’ve read any of my previous articles, you know I’m a fan of pop culture. Recently, the pop culture gods must have heard my prayers by bringing back the early 90s paranormal juggernaut known as “The X-Files.” If you never saw “The X-Files” (congratulations on […]

By A.R. Guess 1 day ago

A recent press release reports, “Riverbed®, The Digital Performance Company™, today announced the latest release of its Digital Experience Management (DEM) solution Riverbed SteelCentral, with advancements that dramatically improve the performance of cloud applications. The new release fundamentally changes performance management for cloud architectures with greater visibility of cloud native apps and into cloud-based networks—through […]

By A.R. Guess 1 day ago

According to a recent press release, “CodeLathe, a provider of the cloud-agnostic enterprise file sync and sharing (EFSS) solution FileCloud, today announced availability of its latest FileCloud with metadata support in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure. FileCloud customers can now take advantage of the […]

Oct 18 RWDG Webinar: Three Ways to Manage Your Data Stewards

By Tenley Proudfoot 6 months ago

DATE: October 18, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar There are three ways to manage the data stewards in your organization. You can assign people to be data stewards, identify people as data stewards and you can […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 6 months ago

DATE: October 25, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Business-centric data models are key to gaining a clear view of the data that drives the business –from customers to products to invoices and more. They offer a clear, visual […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: October 30, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar With changes in software development methodologies, the role of the data modeler has changed significantly. In many organizations, data modelers now find themselves on the outside looking in, relegated to documentation […]

By Julie Lowery 7 months ago

DATE: November 1, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar “Knowledge management” may be making a comeback — the term we heard about in the early “noughts,” a formal system that helps manage what an organization knows. Developments in artificial intelligence and database technology have […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: November 6, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The applications that today’s enterprises are building require flexibility, performance and scalability, and agnostic deployment options to meet the demands of business, employee, and customer. If you’re an architect or developer, […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 7, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar sponsored by: This webinar hosted by: About the Webinar This webinar will be a guide for those looking to begin or improve a Business Glossary in their own organizations. The main focus will be […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 13, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Many are confused when it comes to data. Architecture, models, data – it can seem a bit overwhelming. This webinar offers a clear explanation of Data Modeling as the primary means of achieving better understanding […]

By Tenley Proudfoot 7 months ago

DATE: November 15, 2018 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar There are three levels of metadata that every organization must focus on. The three levels are the semantic level, the business level and the technical level. All three levels are […]

By Monica Marcinko 7 months ago

DATE: November 27, 2108 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar As data professionals, we recognize and understand the need for data governance, focusing on data quality in particular. We have made progress in this area, as illustrated by the emergence […]

Essential Open Source Big Data Tools

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By Daniel Mintz 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Daniel Mintz. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), data has to be controlled, secured and deleteable or anonymized. This means that all businesses housing large volumes of data are faced with a dilemma: figuring out which data to keep and ensuring that data that is kept is secure. […]

By Sandra Lupanava 4 days ago

Click to learn more about author Sandra Lupanava. It has never been easy to set up robust Knowledge Management in an enterprise. Organizational silos, communication barriers, and knowledge complexity often stall the development of Knowledge Management practices. In this context, organizations consider productive employee collaboration essential to successful Knowledge Management. Indeed, a collaboration-driven corporate culture […]

By Sonal Mehta 5 days ago

Click to learn more about author Sonal Mehta. Gone are those days when patients had to run towards clinics, hospitals, and healthcare centers for checkups and treatments. Gone are those days when we had to wait in long queues outside hospitals for making an appointment. It is the era of internet and smartphones. Mobile apps […]

By Steve Miller 6 days ago

Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I met up with a grad school friend of 40 years the other day. While he earned a doctorate and became an academic luminary, I departed the program with a masters in statistical science and went on first to the not-for-profit and then to the business worlds. […]

By Haden Kirkpatrick 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Haden Kirkpatrick. From e-commerce and social networking to healthcare and insurance, more industries are handling large amounts of user data than ever before. Many crucial business decisions are made based on that data. They afford a better understanding of what consumers want and seek, and help companies improve the products […]

By Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan 1 week ago

Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. Like many technologies, AI is now in a full-scale hype cycle, both in the industry and the societal/consumer mainstream. While it’s nice to have broad interest and appreciation in what we technologists and Data Scientists are doing with AI, having the spotlight on it […]

The Future of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

By Paramita Ghosh 11 hours ago

By Jennifer Zaino 5 days ago

There’s one phrase that people never want to hear from their doctor: “I’m sorry, but you have cancer.” According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 1,735,350 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year and 609,640 people will die from the disease. Fortunately, and despite these statistics, many types […]

By Paramita Ghosh 6 days ago

As Advanced Analytics becomes a prominent driver of revenue in the data-driven age, technologies are needed to help provide a context to data. Business leaders and the global Data Science community have realized that businesses need appropriate technology to comprehend the context of business data. Metadata Management: The Promise of Context-Driven Data In addition to […]

By Tami Fertig 1 week ago

Should your organization implement a Data Lake or a Data Warehouse? As Kelle O’Neal, CEO and Founder of First San Francisco Partners, pointed out during her presentation at the DATAVERSITY® 2017 Enterprise Analytics Online Conference, you don’t necessarily need to choose just one: Many organizations use both a Data Lake and a Data Warehouse. In […]

By Jennifer Zaino 2 weeks ago

Data access is a right, not a privilege. That philosophy may not be directly stated by companies, but certainly they have moved in that direction. Of course, it’s understood that not everyone is entitled to access all data. Nonetheless, the landscape has changed from the days when IT primarily held the keys and access was […]

By Paramita Ghosh 2 weeks ago

As data continues to rise in volume and variety, and businesses grow more data-centric, the decision-making power of advanced algorithms is now openly welcome in enterprises of all sizes. Now, the average business user is not affected even if a knowledgeable Data Scientist is not around. Today, technology innovations are increasingly empowering the ordinary staff […]

By Amber Lee Dennis 2 weeks ago

Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum, and author of the book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, said that there is no historical precedent for the speed of current technological breakthroughs, and that the Fourth Revolution is evolving at an exponential, rather than linear pace. The Third Industrial Revolution introduced the personal computer and the internet, […]

By Michelle Knight 3 weeks ago

Business users need to be close to Big Data. They need to know the pros and cons of how to best utilize business data to act on opportunities and reach out to customers and prospects. In addition, businesses need to respond to these advantages immediately. As Thomas Schutz, SVP of Sales and Marketing Strategy for […]

By Keith D. Foote 3 weeks ago

Blockchain is still considered new technology, best known for supporting cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ether. But Blockchain can provide security for a variety of purposes, ranging from privacy controls on medical records to preventing vote tampering. Ultimately, Blockchain is a secure, encrypted database of agreements. Blockchain serves as a bookkeeping/contract platform which is incorruptible […]

Numenta Introduces Breakthrough Theory for Intelligence and Cortical Computation

By A.R. Guess 11 hours ago

By A.R. Guess 1 day ago

A recent press release reports, “Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, today announced the launch of ISG Blockchain Now™, a new advisory and sourcing solution that enables enterprise clients to improve the efficiency, accuracy and security of their business processes through distributed ledger technology… ISG estimates the global market […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

A recent press release reports, “Ontotext is releasing GraphDB 8.7 – the latest version of its semantic graph database adding support for concept-matching in knowledge graphs thanks to a new plugin returning similar terms, documents and entities based on statistic semantics methods like Random Projection. This release also includes performance improvements that enable efficient query […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

According to a recent press release, “EclecticIQ, which empowers cyber defenses with threat intelligence, today announced the availability of EclecticIQ Platform 2.3 at it-sa 2018, Europe’s largest expo for IT security. The new version is packed with new and improved features that increase the effectiveness of cyber threat analysts through enhanced collaboration. Further, it contains […]

By A.R. Guess 4 days ago

A new press release reports, “NuoDB, the distributed SQL database company, today announced that the latest version of its database is now available. The release of NuoDB v3.3 further enables the monumental shift that is underway inside enterprise organizations towards container-based environments. By adding key container-native features and availability for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, […]