Tag: business intelligence

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . This week’s Webinar, Power BI Program Manager Nikhil Gaekwad will look at how you can directly add comments to dashboards and specific visuals to discuss your data.  You can also pull people into your conversation by @mentioning others within your organization. Commenting is tightly integrated with Power Bi mobile, so those you’ve @mentioned will quickly receive a notification and email with your message. When:  9/20/2018 10AM PST Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1ZbBdhHbiQ  About Nikhil Gaekwad Nikhil Gaekwad is a Product Manager on the Power BI service team at Microsoft. His journey at the company ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. New release of Hortonworks Data Platform is now available from IBM HDP 3.0 delivers new capabilities for the enterprise to enable agile application deployment, new machine learning/deep learning workloads, real-time database, & security and governance. It is a key component of the modern data architecture and can be deployed both on-premises and the cloud. Many of the new enhancements to HDP 3.0 are based on Apache Hadoop 3.1 and include containerization, GPU support, erasure coding and namenode federation. The new FASTER, SMARTER, HYBRID platform has a lot of innovation and improved usability to make ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Rapid innovations in both web and technology today have made it easier for schools and colleges to reach out to more and more students as the urge to market students intensifies. Higher education institutions across the length and breadth of the globe are trying to get habitual to the ability to analyze, access and manage vast volume of data. Colleges now have more complicated ways of collecting and reacting to data about students, so they can target them in more specific ways than ever. Further, both, competition ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. The data revolution is gaining pace at breakneck speed, and we are finally towards the latter end of its implementation. Many inroads have been made by important stakeholders, and numerous organizations are currently trying to incorporate a data culture within their workplace. Future predictions suggest that every company will eventually be part of the data brigade and will benefit from the use of data analysis tools. How to Become a Data/Information Company  With growing hype across the market, many organizations want to know as much as they can about the intricacies involved in ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: sajan-kuttappa; Today's manufacturing organizations operate in a dynamic environment characterized by increased complexity and uncertainty. The financial performance of manufacturers hinges on their ability to rapidly adapt to constantly changing conditions, from demand fluctuations to delivery challenges, while managing production costs efficiently.Prescriptive analytics helps companies see where process improvements could have the biggest, most immediate impact on their bottom lines. Predictive analytics helps companies understand the drivers behind customer buying patterns to anticipate which products customers want, how many they want and when. Prescriptive analytics, on the other hand, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Anupam Singh, Brian Coyne. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018. Watch the full version of this keynote on O'Reilly's online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Complexity (source: Pixabay). Anupam is general manager, Analytics, at Cloudera. Anupam was the co-founder and CEO of Xplain.io, which Cloudera acquired in 2015. Xplain technology accelerates self-service BI with a massively scalable SQL workload analyzer. Prior to Xplain, Anupam was the co-founder and CTO at Joviandata, a pioneer in combining the power of ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. This is a keynote highlight from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018. Watch the full version of this keynote on O'Reilly's online learning platform. You can also see other highlights from the event. Article image: Camera (source: Pixabay). Ben Lorica is the Chief Data Scientist at O'Reilly Media, Inc. and is the Program Director of both the Strata Data Conference and the Artificial Intelligence Conference. He has applied Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Statistical Analysis in a variety of settings including Direct Marketing, Consumer and Market Research, Targeted ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: John Maynard. Nothing says you are wasting your time and energy more than referring to a process as plowing a field with a fork. I liked to use this phrase as a manager and auditor, especially in government. Good data analytics makes a big difference in problem solving. Photo by Lydia Torrey on Unsplash Does anyone think a fork makes a capable farming tool? If you've driven through farm country, you likely noticed the fields are vast. The visual of someone kneeling in the dirt with a fork is a vivid one – painful even. I ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Weidong Yang, CEO, Kineviz | September 12, 2018Reading time: 4 minutes Love the buzzword or hate it, “big data” is an inescapable reality. Whether it’s for business intelligence or bioinformatics, recommendation engines or risk analysis, the volume, variety and velocity of data is only going to increase.Graph is an undeniably powerful tool for working with big data. Unfortunately, one of graph’s greatest strengths – intuitive visualization – is restricted by an essentially fixed resource: screen size. Even a large monitor only accommodates a few hundred nodes before the graph’s structure becomes ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jay Nair. Positive technological advancement is in the technology’s ability to augment human intelligence or performance; it’s what makes cognitive systems relevant – the ability to interpret, analyze, learn, and reason without constant human involvement. And that’s where things get interesting. With the inherent ability to now understand the context behind the content, cognitive computing is taking the Big Data world by a storm, transforming the ordinarily data-driven ecosystem into something value-driven. In time, there are expectations and opportunities that might enable users to turn data into more than just information ... Read More