In his latest book, “Why Privacy Matters” (2022), Neil Richards connects privacy with the social power human information provides over others. Because this power is not always channeled in ways that benefit humans, ensuring the privacy of human information is of paramount importance for building a society where our roles as situated consumers and workers are […]
AI: The Key That Unlocks Clinical Trials and Matches Patients with Prospective Therapies
Thanks to ever-evolving advancements in modern medicine, many diseases and medical conditions with severe sequelae can now be treated through therapies not yet on the market. The clearest example of this was patients getting early access to the COVID vaccines during trials that undoubtedly saved lives. But while a clinical trial may potentially save a patient’s […]
How to Overcome a Key Obstacle to Stateful Container Adoption: HA Implementation
Over the last four years, Microsoft SQL Server containers in Linux have become an even more important piece in the product roadmap. Microsoft has continued to improve upon and invest in these containers, and there’s no doubt that containers can help IT operations in many ways. Some of the best features of containers, besides the fact that […]
3 Signs That Your Data Is Trapped in Silos
The path to data maturity begins with the realization that the opportunity itself is there. Whether you’re sitting on a ton of untapped data or you’re not extracting value from your data because of organizational restrictions, you may be aware by now of the endless possibilities of a mature data model. This potential can be […]
How Data Reliability Engineering Can Solve Today’s Data Challenges
A 20-year-old article from MIT Technology Review tells us that good software “is usable, reliable, defect-free, cost-effective, and maintainable. And software now is none of those things.” Today, most businesses would beg to differ. From payments to CRM to analytics and people operations, software runs everything. Businesses rely on data to drive revenue and create better customer experiences – […]
Training a Machine Learning Model to Building a Predictive Web Application in Three Easy Steps
Do you remember when we took you through the nine circles of hell with parameter optimization and a cup of tea? We introduced a parameter optimization workflow that uses four different machine learning models, individually optimizes the hyperparameters, and picks the best combination of machine learning method and hyperparameters for the user. However, the usual data scientist journey […]
Data Observability and Its Impact on the Data Operations Lifecycle
The quality of the data you use in daily operations plays a significant role in how well you will generate valuable insights for your enterprise. You want to rely on data integrity to ensure you avoid simple mistakes because of poor sourcing or data that may not be correctly organized and verified. That requires the […]
Maximizing ERP Systems with AI and Wide Data
In the current business landscape, traditional enterprises are looking for agile technologies to accelerate growth and digital transformation. Many of these organizations have petabytes of data stored in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and while ERP platforms can provide an overview of “what happened,” many organizations want to know “what will happen” or “what’s the persona of my user?” or […]
Graph Technology: The Next Chapter of Data Insights and Intelligence
Hospitals are one of the best examples to spotlight the complexities of unstructured data. From physicians’ notes in EHRs, emails, text files, photos, videos, and other files, the majority of patient data cannot be read by machines. Research firm IDC estimates that upwards of 80% of data will be unstructured, growing from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes […]
Open-Source Cloud Databases: Security Best Practices
A cloud database runs on a cloud computing platform that delivers it to users as a service. Cloud services offer various cloud databases, including SQL and NoSQL databases. Here are the two main cloud database deployment models: Use a virtual machine (VM) to run your databases on the cloud privately Purchase access to a database […]