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 […]
Fraud Detection Using a Neural Autoencoder
Click to learn more about author Rosaria Silipo. The co-authors of this column were Kathrin Melcher and Maarit Widmann. The Fraud Detection Problem Fraud detection belongs to the more general class of problems — the anomaly detection. Anomaly is a generic, not domain-specific, concept. It refers to any exceptional or unexpected event in the data, […]
Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment […]
10 Most Popular Data Mining Algorithms
Click to learn more about author Ramesh Dontha. Learning about data mining algorithms is not for the faint of heart and the literature on the web makes it even more intimidating. It seems as though most of the data mining information online is written by Ph.Ds for other Ph.Ds. Earlier on, I published a simple article […]
Neural Machine Translation with Sequence to Sequence RNN
Click to learn more about author Rosaria Silipo. The co-authors of this column were Kathrin Melcher and Simon Schmid Automatic machine translation has been a popular subject for machine learning algorithms. After all, if machines can detect topics and understand texts, translation should be just the next step. Machine translation can be seen as a […]
What is Advanced Analytics and What Are the Benefits of Advanced Analytics?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Many businesses are just discovering the benefits of Self-serve Business Intelligence and establishing Data Democratization initiatives but, as every business manager and team member knows, business markets and competition move rapidly and yesterday’s Business Intelligence initiatives are morphing into Advanced Analytics efforts. As businesses consider the transition, it […]
Data Dimensionality Reduction in the Age of Machine Learning
Click to learn more about author Rosaria Silipo. Machine Learning is all the rage as companies try to make sense of the mountains of data they are collecting. Data is everywhere and proliferating at unprecedented speed. But, more data is not always better. In fact, large amounts of data can not only considerably slow down […]
The Realities of Machine Learning for the Benefit of Tech Leaders
Click to learn more about author Tyler Warden. In the cycle of technology buzzwords, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have become part of the regular vernacular used to make technology seem more relevant, modern and innovative. In reality, these tools can either make solutions better or complicate and frustrate well working processes. In order […]
What is Predictive Analytics and Can it Help You Achieve Business Objectives?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. The process of Predictive Analytics has come far in the past decade. No longer is this process the sole responsibility of data scientists or IT staff. Today’s Self-serve Predictive Analytics and forecasting tools are designed to support business users and data analysts alike. What is Predictive Analytics? Predictive […]
Figure Eight Machine Learning Models Now Available on AWS Marketplace
According to a recent press release, “Figure Eight, the essential Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning (ML) platform, today announced that its production-quality ML algorithms and models will be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace for Machine Learning, which allows developers and data scientists to find and procure ML algorithms and models and deploy in Amazon SageMaker. […]