Data lakes were created in response to the need for Big Data analytics that has been largely unmet by data warehousing. The pendulum swing toward data lake technology provides some remarkable new capabilities, but can be problematic if the swing goes too far in the other direction. Far from being at the end of this […]
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 […]
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Explained
The first reference to artificial intelligence was in a paper written by Alan Turing in 1950, entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence, where he asked the question, “Can machines think?” Turing’s article, as well as a 1977 paper entitled History of Artificial Intelligence by P. McCorduck are recommended reading for those wanting a greater understanding of […]
Streaming Analytics: The Value is in the Action
“When we’re talking about streaming analytics, we’re talking about flipping our traditional paradigm a little bit and thinking about how we bring analytics to our data, and not necessarily data to our analytics,” said Kimberly Nevala, the Director of Business Strategies for SAS Best Practices, while discussing streaming analytics during the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Analytics Online […]
Scaling the Analytics Team: Developing Key Roles
In an enterprise analytics team, different roles exist to fill different needs, and those needs must be met in order to be successful. Launching an analytics program doesn’t necessarily require a massive influx of personnel before producing usable insights from data, yet it’s important that critical roles are filled, whatever the size of the team. […]
Press Release: Agenda Announced and Registration Open for the 2019 Enterprise Analytics Online Event
July 30, 2019 — DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for the third annual Enterprise Analytics Online (EAO). This free online event will be held at http://eanalyticsonline.com on October 23, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. One of several online conferences hosted by DATAVERSITY, EAO is designed to teach anyone […]
Building an Effective Data Science Team
Dr. Cindi Thompson considers Data Scientists to be raccoons: “Raccoons are both smart and dangerous, and that’s kind of the way we think about Data Scientists.” Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Analytics Online 2017 Conference, in her presentation titled “How to Get the Most Value from Data Science Teams” Thompson said, “Raccoons have that desire […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Announces the First Enterprise Analytics Online Conference
Los Angeles, Calif. — DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announced the agenda and opened registration today for Enterprise Analytics Online (EAO). This free online event will be held at http://eanalyticsonline.com on October 18th, 2017, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Registration is required to attend. EAO is the most recent event to be added to […]