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Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Claudius Weinberger. We are super excited to share the great news of two highly-experienced minds joining team ArangoDB to shape and grow the multi-model vision with us. Matt Ekstrom is an accomplished enterprise sales leader and joins ArangoDB as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings over 20 years of sales and leadership experience with him and will lead our global sales efforts from San Francisco. Our new Head of Engineering & Machine Learning is Jörg Schad who brings nearly a decade of experience of researching, designing and developing distributed systems and machine learning pipelines to our ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: . The healthcare AI stream at the AI Summit in London during June provided a fascinating look at how AI is being used to solve real healthcare problems. Consider some of the meta challenges of healthcare: overwhelming amounts of poorly connected data; the unpredictable nature of sickness and wellness; longer life expectancy; and costs. Now consider some of the strengths of AI: disparate data analysis and prediction and the automation of mundane, redundant tasks. There is perhaps no other field where AI could have such a significant positive impact on outcomes. Two cases discussed at ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. IMAGINE: A Better World, A Global Nonprofit Conference brought together hundreds of nonprofits from around the world dedicated to tackling the growing challenges our world faces every day. From fighting climate change to finding cures to saving animals, nonprofits are seeking new ways to combine their passion and purpose with technology. Through the two days of keynotes, sessions, and networking opportunities, attendees uncovered opportunities to collaborate to make the world a better place. Read on below for the top ten highlights coming out of the conference: Best Friends Animal Society Goes All-In ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Objects detected with OpenCV's Deep Neural Network module (DNN). (source: MTheiler on Wikimedia Commons) Alex Ratner’s talk, "Building and managing training data sets for ML with Snorkel," is part of strong slate of sessions on "Data, Data Networks, Data Quality" at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Jose, September 9-12, 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 speak with Alex Ratner, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Keely O'Neill. Every single thing that happens at TC is curated down to the tiniest detail and meant to inspire you—including the fun stuff. If you've never attended TC, get ready: there is a lot of fun stuff. At TC19, look out for photo and gif booths, games, morning workouts, and more. We’re also known for our surprise moments from parades to flash mobs to line dancing and food trucks. You have to be there in Vegas this November to see what we have planned for you. Who doesn’t love a good data pun? We’re obsessed, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shreyak Shah. By Shreyak Shah, GTM Product Marketing at AWSBy Patty Grow, Sr. Partner Marketing Manager at AWSWe are headed back to VMworld in 2019! VMworld 2019 US brings you a week-long journey of innovation to accelerate your cloud adoption. This year’s event is August 25-29 in San Francisco. The growth of VMware Cloud on AWS has been nothing short of stellar thanks to a strong partnership between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner. In the past year, we announced services like Amazon RDS with VMware, ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. Bosch ConnectedWorld — Bosch’s premier customer and partner event held annually in Berlin — has become a destination event for European internet of things (IoT) professionals. What started several years ago as a hands-on-type of event where lots of practitioners demonstrated Bosch’s most innovative solutions has now become a more typical conference, with polished marketing messages from Bosch executives and partners appealing to a broader international audience — some Chinese companies appeared as “Platinum” and “Gold” partners this year. In this post, we’ll review the event’s evolution and then give our analysis of ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. A mostly monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft and elsewhere that I've noted over the past month or so. Open Source AI, ML & Data Science News StanfordNLP: a pure-Python package for grammatical analysis of sentences in over 50 languages. New projects added to the PyTorch ecosystem: Skorch (scikit-learn compatibility), botorch (Bayesian optimization), and many others. PyTorch-Transformers, a library of pretrained NLP models (BERT, GPT-2 and more) from HuggingFace. R 3.6.1 ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hadley Wickham. [This article was first published on RStudio Blog, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. rstudio::conf, the conference on all things R and RStudio, will take place January 29 and 30, 2020 in San Francisco, Califorrnia, preceded by Training Days on January 27 and 28. The rstudio::conf program includes invited speakers and RStudio employees, but we also want to hear from you, the R community! We are ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rstats on pi: predict/infer. Mediation analysis has been around a long time, though its popularity has varied between disciplines and over the years. While some fields have been attracted to the potential of mediation models to identify pathways, or mechanisms, through which an independent variable affects an outcome, others have been skeptical that the analysis of mediated relationships can ever be done scientifically. Two developments, one more scientific than the other, have led to a renewed popularity of mediation analysis. The first, less scientific reason is that software developments have made it easier than ever to fit ... Read More