Click to learn more about author Sri Raghavan. In our new reality of hyper-disruption, rapid innovation, and evolving consumer expectations, it’s imperative that companies invest in data and analytics to stay competitive as data-driven decisions become the new normal. Furthermore, advanced, automated technologies, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, the cloud, and 5G […]
Immuta Demo: Unlocking Sensitive Data with Automated Data Governance
Download slides: https://content.dataversity.net/rs/656-WMW-918/images/Dataversity-Governance-Demo-Day-Immuta.pdf In the personal data era, data engineers are under immense pressure to enforce the legal and ethical use of data. Upstream, compliance teams demand that data engineers are well versed in regulation. Downstream, data scientists and business analysts need data engineers to put proper controls in place. These expectations can be daunting […]
What Is Deep Learning?
Deep Learning is a type of Machine Learning, using neural networks to grasp complex patterns. This type of technology allows Artificial Intelligence systems to perform human like tasks, “such as recognizing real-life objects or understanding speech.” While the operation of these brain-inspired networks remains inscrutable, their interconnected layers algorithms give machines the ability to be […]
Abstractions: The Executive’s Guide to ROI in the Cloud
Click to learn more about author Chris Lynch. Industry icons VMware and MuleSoft changed the way organizations viewed infrastructure and application integration, respectively. Their value propositions cemented the necessity of an abstraction layer to maximize efficiency and flexibility, irrespective of a company’s size or market. Analogous to VMware and MuleSoft, today’s market opportunity awaits the […]
The Importance of Anomaly Detection for Service Mesh Monitoring
Click to learn more about author Yuval Dror. Many companies today have adopted the new norm of rapid iteration in software development and now live by Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto, “Move fast and break things.” This mentality has led to the growth in popularity of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to software design. In particular, […]
Guided Labeling Episode 2: Label Density
Click to learn more about author Paolo Tamagnini. The Guided Labeling series of blog posts began by looking at when labeling is needed — i.e., in the field of machine learning when most algorithms and models require huge amounts of data with quite a few specific requirements. These large masses of data need to be […]
Why AI and Big Data Will Be the Heroes of the Great Recession
Click here to learn more about Dr. Tommy Weir. The current global crisis has ushered in a tough new reality that makes it difficult for employers and employees to cope, and we are all struggling. Let’s face it — with record unemployment and an uptick in virus cases across North America, we all know that […]
AI for the Good of Democracy: How AI Can Redeem Itself and Safeguard Elections
Click here to learn more about Golnar Pooya. With the stakes (and tension) impossibly high, November’s fateful election will now be held amidst a global pandemic of unprecedented scope. As things stand, American voters will still be called on to fulfill their democratic duty on schedule this year, though under the threat of an airborne […]
Data and Analytics: Why are We Grouping Them Together?
Click here to learn more about Victor Dudemaine. Data and Analytics are one of the hottest areas of focus for organizations. If you are not mining your data, consultants will tell you that your model is broken and in serious need of an overhaul. And by all accounts, they are right. We have recognized the value data […]
No More Iris: Three Ways to Become a Better Data Scientist
Click here to learn more about Ted Kwartler. Each semester I am tempted to teach my Harvard Extension students using standard data sets like Iris or Titanic. It would be easy with so many examples floating around. Plus, the explanation of a K-Nearest Neighbor algorithm fits perfectly into an Iris world. But honestly, real-world data […]