Tag: Business

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Loyalty is practically its own form of currency, especially for eCommerce stores. When customers are loyal to your store, they offer greater customer lifetime value (CLV) which in turn, generates more revenue for your business.If you want your eCommerce store to be as successful as possible (and who doesn’t?), measuring customer loyalty with key customer retention metrics will show you how many of your customers are coming back to your store again and again. With that data, you can make smart improvements to your business to further boost customer loyalty.Let’s take a closer look ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. By Alastair Green, Query Languages Standards & Research Lead, Neo4j | February 15, 2019Reading time: 4 minutes The community vote by Apache Spark contributors has just closed – and the results are positive. Thank you to everyone who participated when we asked for your votes and feedback.As part of the preparations for a forthcoming Apache Spark 3.0 release, the Spark development community has just completed a positive vote for a Spark Project Improvement Proposal (SPIP) to add property graphs based on DataFrames to Spark. Based on the achievements of the ongoing ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Adriana Gil Miner. As the standard language of analytics for business users and analytics professionals, Tableau is one of the fastest-growing technical job skills in today's job market. And Tableau helps people learn and develop data skills fast. When people explore data in an easy, iterative way that provides immediate feedback, users feel more connected to their data, which leads to deeper understanding and better decisions. Tableau’s unique user experience paired with our industry-leading education and user enablement resources are proven to help people develop skills, unlock curiosity, and unleash their creativity using data—helping our customers ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Manan Ghadawala. Looking at the current state of affairs, the Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be the eventual fate of remote and local computer systems. Its administration is dependent on electronic sensors and programmed information handling. IoT speaks to the general idea, which is the capacity of system gadgets to detect and gather information from our direct surroundings. And afterward, share that information over the internet. Where it tends to be handled and used for different applications by various data controllers.IoTs are not restricted to one explicit application. Today, IoT applications range ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Enza Iannopollo. California is taking the lead in the US on privacy regulation with the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Security and privacy professionals whose companies have consumers in California must get their implementation plans together now. Those that believe that CCPA is not their problem must think again: This is likely to be the first of many state-level privacy requirements. And this is just the beginning. Our data shows that compliance with global privacy laws is one of the top three challenges CISOs face, on par with the changing threat landscape ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Benjamin Waxer. In this 5 Minute Analysis we'll preprocess, map, and explore complicated sales data for liquor stores in Iowa. Then we’ll extract the relevant latitude and longitude from a problematic column of the data and discover the city with the most sales. Next we’ll filter the data to that city and prepare the data for easy loading into Business Analysis tools such as Tableau and PowerBI. Finally we’ll use our extracted location data to visualize sales within the selected city.Dataset: Iowa Liquor Sales This blog post explores and analyzes the ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Marshall Lincoln. This is the first article in what will be a three-part series:  "How to make your mark on the world as a talented, socially conscious data scientist." In this article, we discuss how a socially-conscious data scientist might choose a domain to make the greatest impact. The next article will focus on how to maximize the impact you can make at your organization once you’ve chosen your path. In the final post, we will finish the series with a discussion around why the best data scientists are world class ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Samual Alister. Data science is among the one of the most discussed term in last few years. Digital industry is hugely dependent on exchange of data. But most of us just know about basic terminology about data science like it just about studying data and finding out some important information from them. But it is more than that. So, what exactly those data scientists do? Why does everyone want one? And how do you become one? Let’s start with what does a data scientist do? Same as a business analyst, data ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  A defensible data strategy increasingly defines those AI businesses that will be successful.  VCs know this and are steering the funding to this strategy.  Read here about what a defensible data strategy is and how to identify your next AI opportunity using this technique. The most recent issue of MIT Technology Review shows their annual list of 35 Innovators Under 35.  Of these, 15 are AI-based - 43%.  Another 3 are in Computational Synthetic Biology that depends on deep learning. Similarly the website Angel.co which tracks the formation ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . In September 2018, IBM announced a new product, IBM Db2 AI for z/OS. This artificial intelligence engine monitors data access patterns from executing SQL statements, uses machine learning algorithms to decide on optimal patterns and passes this information to the Db2 query optimizer for use by subsequent statements. Machine Learning on the IBM z Platform In May of 2018, IBM announced version 1.2 of its Machine Learning for z/OS (MLz) product. This is a hybrid zServer and cloud software suite that ingests performance data, analyzes and builds models that represent the health ... Read More