To make Data Science part of business value creation, business users have to be part of the Data Science lifecycle. They need to be able to go back to Data Science teams and provide feedback so that the Data Science process reflects their requirements — and quickly. Models may need to be updated or functionalities […]
Machine Learning is Changing the Way Retailers Do Business
Click to learn more about author Chirag Mudsa. New technologies are continuing to make retail stores smarter. Among the latest range of smart and futuristic technologies for retail stores, artificial intelligence and machine learning have the most paradigm-shifting capabilities. While the underlying fear of job loss thanks to these technologies is still there, no one […]
Kinetica’s Active Analytics Platform is Powered by Oracle Cloud
A recent press release reports, “Kinetica, the Active Analytics Platform for the Extreme Data Economy and Silver-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced its Powered by Oracle Cloud status and is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, offering added value to Oracle Cloud customers. The Active Analytics Platform enables customers to deploy and […]
Data Science in Life
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Early last Spring, I was texted by a neighbor friend who asked if I’d be willing to chat with her regarding the pending college choice of her daughter. A top student at our suburban Chicago high school, the young woman had plans to become a physician, and […]
New GoodData Support for Amazon Redshift Helps Enterprise Deliver Analytics Solutions
A new press release reports, “GoodData®, a leader in end-to-end analytics solutions, announced it is now leveraging Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse by Amazon Web Services (AWS). ‘I believe that GoodData and Amazon Redshift represent an ideal combination for analytics in SaaS products,’ said Zdenek Svoboda, VP of Product at GoodData. In addition, the […]
Enterprise Analytics Trends
Evan Terry, Chief Analytics Officer at Velocity Mortgage Capital said that enterprise analytics technology is increasingly sophisticated, due to machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and streaming analytics, but you can’t benefit from these advancements without a solid foundation. “There’s a real interplay there between the foundational and the advanced.” Terry discussed these interplays during his […]
The Power of Analytics in the Data Economy
Click to learn more about author Josh Bartels. Economics studies a market’s supply and demand curves, trying to understand the changes to each curve and its overall effect on the market. If we borrow from that concept, we are constantly moving to a new economy with an ever-growing supply of data being created each day. […]
Alteryx Acquires Feature Labs to Advance Machine Learning for the Enterprise
A recent press release states, “Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced that it has acquired Feature Labs, a data science software company launched out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that automates feature engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The acquisition of Feature Labs will further enable […]
Bridging the Gap between Prescriptive Analytics and Trust
Click to learn more about author Omri Kohl. Prescriptive analytics has the potential to amplify the decision-making ability of data-driven organizations by examining what has happened and using that information to recommend – or even implement – next steps. But this power is dependent on just how much users can trust the data being mined, […]
Case Study: Big Data Analytics Advance Sutton Bank Forward
Sutton Bank is an FDIC-regulated, Ohio state-chartered bank. They have been in the payment business about 20 years, specifically in the prepaid space. Jeff Lewis, Senior Vice President of Payments and Prepaid Card Services at Sutton Bank, says that payment and card services are an increasingly popular offering for financial institutions, provided they can keep […]