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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Overview On this special episode, we sit down with one of the Db2 legends, Matt Huras. He's a chief architect for Db2 LUW, an IBM Master Inventor with 54 granted U.S. patents, a prolific public speaker and member of the International Db2 Users Group Hall of Fame. He reflects on retiring from IBM, the key qualities of a good leader, and technological changes he has seen in the industry over the past two and a half decades. What does this expert think is next in the world of ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Transcript William: Welcome! Data Decoded Episode #3, an IBM podcast series dedicated to demystifying the world of data from data lakes to master data management to date science, big data and everything in between. This is the podcast for the data professional and all those who understand they are in the business of data. I'm your host, William McKnight, President of McKnight Consulting Group – now celebrating twenty years of consulting this year. Time flies, let me tell you. Today, I am joined by Soma Shekar Naganna, Software ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jonathan-wisler; In this series of eight blog posts, IBM is coaching businesses on how to thrive in the new data era. To meet the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), organizations need visibility of all the personal data they have for EU customers and employees. Organizations must know what data of theirs they have, where it’s stored, who has access to it and how it’s processed. They need to know its lineage, too: where it comes from, what they’ve done with it, processing activities, and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; There are countless articles and books on the future of machine learning. Today, we’ll keep the discussion down-to-earth with five near-term predictions:Most applications will include machine learning. In only a few years, machine learning will become part of nearly every software application. Engineers will even embed these capabilities directly into our devices. Think of how well your TV streaming service knows what to recommend. Expect this level of personalization to become ubiquitous and improve the customer experience everywhere. Machine learning as a service will become more common. As ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: oliver-clark; Building on the success of the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Fall 2017, the IBM Chief Data Officer Summit Spring 2018 took place 1 - 2 May in San Francisco. We've collected a full social recap in the below Twitter Moment, as well as interviews and keynote videos for you to peruse. Find all of our past Summit coverage here and current chief data officer content any time by searching the #IBMCDO hashtag on Twitter. IBM Chief Data Officer (CDO) Strategy Summit Spring 2018 Check out the full conference agenda for the sessions that took place and their descriptions. Summit highlights included ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: george-baklarz; For years, the relational database has been the stalwart backbone of organizational operations.Its set structure of rows and columns is perfectly suited to capture the data being generated from daily transactions reliably and efficiently. However, more organizations have recently been looking to embrace greater flexibility in their data management environments through NoSQL databases to better meet the demands of a rapidly changing marketplace. This has led many to ask whether there is an ideal solution that offers the flexibility of NoSQL without sacrificing existing investments in skilled people ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: holly-vatter; By 2025, there will be 180 trillion gigabytes of data in the world, compared to only 10 trillion gigabytes in 2015.1Of this, 90 percent will be unstructured, which is why many organizations are adopting open source data lake technologies such as Apache Hadoop to handle this expanding volume and variety of data. There are many ways to get started, from generic free distributions to integrated analytics solutions that build on Hadoop technology, but to fully understand the impact that a Hadoop solution can provide, one must look at ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: anson-kokkat; As you read this, your organization is probably wasting money by letting data insights spoil.That’s the alarming conclusion from a recent Forrester report. Each insight is useful for only a limited amount of time, so those organizations that don’t closely track their insights’ shelf lives may be making poor decisions because of outdated information. Given that nearly half of all firms surveyed were planning on increasing their investment in analytics, the consequences of using out-of-date insights could be substantial. However, by becoming familiar with the four types of ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Transcript William: Welcome to Data Decoded, an IBM podcast series dedicated to demystifying the wonderful world of data from data lakes to master data management to data science, big data, and everything in between. This is the podcast for the data professional and all those who understand that they are in the business of data. I'm your host William McKnight, President of McKnight Consulting Group. In our first episode, we spent some time discussing the top data trends of 2018 and today I am excited to be at ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Overview This week, Dez Blanchfield, Strategist and Data Science Practitioner at Gara Guru, and Bob Hayes, Data Scientist and President of Business Over Broadway, debate the role of Clickers versus Coders in the Data Science industry. Is one role more critical than the other? What skills are required to be a great Clicker or Coder? Learn all this and more in one of our most engaging and entertaining podcasts recorded to date. Show Notes 00.25 Connect with Al Martin on Twitter and LinkedIn. 00.30 Learn more about IBM THINK and watch ... Read More