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Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Money (source: Pixabay) Jike Chong will teach a 2-day training course on the applications of data science in financial services at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in Beijing, June 18-21, 2019. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Jike Chong, chief data scientist at Acorns, a startup focused on building tools for micro-investing. Chong has extensive experience using analytics and machine learning ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Pillars (source: Pixabay) Get expert knowledge on the tools and technologies you need to put your data strategies to work. Join us at the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference in New York, September 23-26, 2019. In this post, I share slides and notes from a keynote I gave at the Strata Data Conference in London earlier this year. I will highlight the results of a recent survey on machine learning adoption, and along the way describe recent trends in data and machine learning (ML) within companies. This is a good time to assess ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Roger Magoulas, Chris Guzikowski. Spiral staircase (source: fda54 via Pixabay) Register to attend the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San Jose, June 10-13. You’ll get expert insight and guidance on the topics shaping software architecture. Proposals submitted for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference serve as a valuable weather vane, providing direction for developers and architects from what some of the leading names in the field propose as sessions. These go-to experts and practitioners work on the front lines of technology, and they understand that business and software architecture need to operate in harmony to ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica, Mike Loukides. Customer experience (source: Pixabay) Looking to make the most of current AI technologies and solutions in your business? Register now for the O'Reilly AI Conference in San Jose, September 9–12, 2019, and learn how to leverage AI in your work today. What can artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) do to improve customer experience? AI and ML already have been intimately involved in online shopping since, well, the beginning of online shopping. You can’t use Amazon or any other shopping service without getting recommendations, which are often personalized based ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Grid block (source: Pixabay) Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, recently wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times presenting an argument for breaking up Facebook. I was trying to stay out of this discussion, and Nick Clegg's response pretty much summed up my opinions. But I got one too many emails from friends that simply assumed I'd be in agreement with Chris, especially given my critique of blitzscaling and Silicon Valley's obsession with "world domination." If Facebook should be broken up, it should be on grounds of anticompetitive behavior, and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mike Loukides. A punch card with Fortran. (source: Tangopaso via Wikimedia Commons) In a Quora post, Alan Kay lamented the state of tooling for programmers. Every other engineering discipline has built modern computational tools: for computer aided design, simulation and testing, and for manufacturing. But programming hasn’t progressed significantly since the 1970s. We’ve built great tools for others, but not ourselves. The shoemaker’s children have holes in their shoes. Kay isn’t being entirely fair, but before looking at what he’s missing, it’s important to think about how he’s right. If we don’t understand how ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Duplicate birds in flight (source: Public Domain Pictures.net) Don't miss Jeff Jonas at the O'Reilly AI Conference in London this October. Stay up to date on conference information here. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Jeff Jonas, CEO, founder and chief scientist of Senzing, a startup focused on making real-time entity resolution technologies broadly accessible. He was previously a fellow ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Arista Networks has become a key player when it comes to software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center storage and computing environments. In this updated edition of Arista Warrior, renowned consultant and technical author Gary Donahue (Network Warrior) provides an in-depth, objective guide to Arista’s lineup of hardware—and explains why its network switches and Extensible Operating System (EOS) are so effective. Anyone with a CCNA or equivalent knowledge will benefit from this book, especially entrenched administrators, engineers, or architects tasked with building an Arista network. Is Arista right for ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: David Boyle. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in London 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Swirl (source: Pixabay). David Boyle leads customer strategy and insights at Harrods, the biggest and most iconic department store in Europe. David is passionate about helping businesses to build analytics-driven decision making to help them make quicker, smarter, and bolder decisions. Previously, he built global analytics and insight capabilities for a number of leading global ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Chris Taggart. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in London 2019. Watch the full version of this keynote on the O'Reilly online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Boxes (source: Pixabay). Chris Taggart is the cofounder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates’s primary mission is to open up and connect company data from across the globe, making it more useful, usable, and understandable for the public benefit. OpenCorporates has already made a clear and significant ... Read More