A recent press release reports, “Today at JOIN: The Tour London, Looker’s annual global roadshow, the company announced a significant addition to its cloud-based, modern data platform product offering with a new application, Looker for Sales Analytics, designed to deliver comprehensive insights to sales organizations to drive revenue. This expands its suite of purpose-built applications […]
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 […]
IoT Data Management Challenges
Who isn’t thinking about the repercussions of an exploding Internet of Things (IoT) market as smart devices further expand their reach in both the commercial and consumer worlds? John McDonald, CEO of ClearObject, an IoT solution provider, works with companies that are seeking to understand what the technology means to their business, how implementations might […]
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 […]
Infogix Offers Free Version of Data3Sixty Analyze
According to a new press release, “Infogix, a leading provider of data management tools, is offering a free version of its industry-leading Data3Sixty Analyze application providing business users an easy-to-use, self-service solution for data preparation, data blending and advanced analytics. To achieve faster speed to insights, Data3Sixty Analyze provides the most powerful self-service data analytics […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alteryx Acquires ClearStory Data to Accelerate Innovation in Data Science and Analytics
A recent press release states, “Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced that it has acquired ClearStory Data, a privately held software company based in Menlo Park, Calif. ClearStory Data is an enterprise-scale, continuous intelligence analytics solution for complex and unstructured data. Since its founding in 2011, ClearStory Data has focused […]
Temenos Launches Data Lake to Fuel Next-Generation AI-Driven Banking Applications
A recent press release reports, “Temenos, the banking software company, today launched Temenos Data Lake and is first to market with a robust, productized data lake that integrates big data analytics into its banking software. Temenos Data Lake delivers out-of-the box data integration, preparation and optimization to power AI-driven banking applications. Banks require a robust […]