Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. Remember? People of my age were taught set algebra at high-school (in my case in the late seventies). Today it is elementary school stuff. And it is indeed a useful tool with applications in many real-life situations. Why did Set Algebra not Become More Popular? In retrospect, […]
Data Orchestration, Like a Symphony Without Sound
Click to learn more about author Greg Nist. When I think about data orchestration, I always reflect on the key root word: orchestra. I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to watch a live symphony several times. I always leave amazed at the complexity and diversity of the moving parts and how they are seamlessly integrated, governed […]
Data Quality & Data Governance can Maximize Your AI Outcomes
Click to learn more about author Tejasvi Addagada. Clean Data is a crucial need to get an outcome from Machine Learning capabilities. Scale and diversity in data is also another important aspect. How accurate is the data to give a usable outcome – is a major question? Accuracy What is easy to access – are the […]
Leveraging Natural Language Processing Within a CDP
Click to learn more about author Jonathan Lee. In my last column for DATAVERSITY I sought to define the concept of a Customer Data Platform (CDP), noting that a CDP “creates a comprehensive view of each customer by capturing data from multiple systems.” What I didn’t do however, was to delve into a discussion of […]
The University of the Future: Five Ways to Use Data and Analytics to Start Your Online Degree Program
Click to learn more about author Eric Spear. The face of the higher-education student is changing. In the past, the majority of college students were fresh out of high school or another undergraduate program, but 2018 statistics show that 74% of American undergrads are considered “nontraditional” students. With nontraditional students comes the need for higher-education […]
Nowcasting Chicago Crime with R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. In my many years as a data scientist, I’ve spent more time doing forecast work than any other type of predictive modeling. Often as not, the work’s involved forecasting demand for an organization’s many products/lines of business a year or more out based on five or more […]
Better Marketing and Analytics in the Age of the Data-Conscious Consumer
Click to learn more about author Jason Lark. Data is big news these days. Tech behemoths like Google and Facebook make a lot of money from our data, and people are growing increasingly aware of how valuable their data is to companies of all sizes. But as data becomes increasingly valuable for companies, consumers are starting […]
Three Lessons Data Management Can Learn from Meal Delivery Services
Click to learn more about author Lisa Spagnolie. Enterprises today are acutely aware of the exponential growth of data. However, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, only 15% of firms currently have access to the right data needed to achieve their goals. In the face of massive data overload, today’s enterprises don’t have time to […]
How to Get Started with AI You can Trust?
Click to learn more about author Manoj Saxena. Today the public sees AI as a technical solution, but AI’s biggest problems are not technical, they’re the design and behavioral issues. “There is nothing Artificial about AI” to quote Fei Fei Li, a leading AI researcher at Stanford University. AI is inspired by people, it is […]
Benchmarking Hadoop Performance: On-Premises S3-Compatible Storage Keeps Pace with HDFS
Click to learn more about authors Gary Ogasawara and Tatsuya Kawano. When deploying Hadoop, scaling storage can be difficult and costly because the storage and compute are co-located on the same hardware nodes. By implementing the storage layer using S3-compatible storage software and using an S3 connector instead of HDFS, it’s possible to separate storage […]