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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; Data scientists are one of the most valuable teams a company can have. But some businesses overlook how important it is to equip their data scientists with the tools that can help them unlock value from data.In particular, it is essential that companies remain adaptive and agile when taking in vast amounts of unstructured data. To get the most value from their data and their data scientists, businesses need a capable, easy-to-use data warehouse that offers built-in data science and parallel processing. These demands point to a data ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: Kapost; This week's guest is Jorge Castanon, a senior data scientist for Watson Studio at IBM. Host Al Martin and Jorge discuss some typical data problems currently plaguing the industry -- and how Watson Studio makes dealing with those problems that much easier. Get ready for an in-depth, technical conversation with two industry experts ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera platform.  Extending the support on Hadoop platforms, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v5.x platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1 Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive and batch analytics use cases. With Big Data, there is overwhelming amount of data but unless you plan and execute the ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; We spend a lot of time talking with business leaders about the Ladder to AI, the journey that companies need to take to harness the value of an artificial intelligence-enhanced business. AI can transform through better prediction, automation and optimization.AI is not science fiction. It’s science. And an AI-infused business climate isn’t just happening in the future. It’s happening now. businesses across a broad range of industries are harnessing AI to unlock ROI, ignite innovation and create new services for their customers. Read this blog to see how ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: howard-getson; Many ask why financial services is one of the most advanced sectors for data and artificial intelligence (AI)—but they’d probably expect the Willie Sutton answer, “Because that’s where the money is.” To some degree, it would be true, too, as financial services and banks are expected to spend $5.6 billion on AI solutions in 2019, second only to retail, according to analysts quoted by CIO Magazine.However, it’s just as likely the advances in AI are because financial institutions are in the center of a data tornado. Banking alone ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: Kapost; Blog Together, IBM and Cloudera offer a modern data platform with the governance and security to drive the future of AI and ML. Our solutions are optimized for the cloud, but we give our customers options to put their data where it works best for them ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: emma-tucker; A data catalog organizes your information assets and empowers data citizens with business-ready data.Here’s a common scenario: Alex is working on a data analytics project for her retail company to better understand success of shoe sales versus jewelry and predict future sales. Her company is split up by departments, so she has to go to the shoe line-of-business and the jewelry line-of-business for the data she needs for her analysis. She submits a form for each requesting data that would meet her business needs. She waits. And she ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; In 2014, Stephen Hawking warned that artificial intelligence could “end mankind.” Over the years, many sci-fi films, from 2001: A Space Odyssey to I, Robot have alluded to the same potential perils. Yet, five years after Dr. Hawking’s warning, the positive impact of AI is already evident for both consumers and businesses.While consumers delight in the functionality of their virtual assistants, enterprise companies are using AI for greater productivity and efficiency by improving customer relations, proactively detecting and mitigating fraud, and providing new levels of innovation. Still, AI ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jon-lind; Today’s launch of Db2 11.5, the world’s premier AI database, is great news for any company seeking to build an architecture that supports their AI implementation. Governance, integration, and business intelligence are all important rungs on the ladder for a business to reach AI. But the first step is a solid hybrid data management practice.That’s why the new Db2 11.5 is built for – and powered by – AI. It helps run queries significantly faster, supports popular data science languages and frameworks, and makes it easier to implement ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: lynn-chou; Back when I was in school, one of the most difficult classes for my business degree was quantitative analysis. It wasn’t just hard, it was laborious to translate and solve business conditions and problems into algebraic equations by hand. In the beginning, it was merely optimizing output based on a few constraints. As the course progressed, the equations became longer and more complicated in order to solve more complex problems. It was a huge relief when we were finally allowed to use computers to calculate results.Our world today ... Read More