Tag: data analytics

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ihab Ilyas. An ML pipeline for record deduplication (source: Image by Ihab Ilyas, used with permission) To learn more about how machine learning can assist in data unification, check out Ihab Ilyas’s session “Solving data cleaning and unification using human-guided machine learning” at the Strata Data Conference in New York City, Sept. 25-28, 2017. Registration is now open. Data unification is the process of combining multiple, diverse data sets and preparing them for analysis by matching, deduplicating, and otherwise cleaning the records (Figure 1). This effort consumes more than 60% of data scientists’ time, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Big Data News. Author: Sujain Thomas. IT networks are now a thriving hive of connections and data points. It has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Along with the network, the threats and sophistication of the threats have increased as well. Things have ceased to be black and white. There are some moral and practical gray zones that people cover every day to use, produce and extract relevant data. The next section of Statistics is a compilation of studies from different verified sources including the 2016 Cost of Cybercrime Study as a global ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Big Data News. Author: Paul Black. There is an estimated 50 Petabytes of data in the health care realm, predicted to grow to 25,000 Petabytes by 2020, reported by a new info-graphic from Oracle. From this astonishing data report, we can see that the healthcare industry is generating a huge amount of data, driven by clinical records, medical care and compliance & regulatory requirements. Luckily, big data analytic application has been widely used in the health care industry to extract insights from the wealth of data. Being able to accurately identify the association, trends and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sean Hughes. If you’re headed to Gartner Catalyst 2017 in San Diego, CA August 21 – 24, or if this is your first time at a Gartner event, here’s your essential guide to get the most out of the upcoming conference. We hope you find it useful.This is a conference for technical professionals. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to meet with your peers across all disciplines including CIOs, CTOs, solution architects, developers, database admins, data scientists, data engineers, business analysts and devops, amongst others. Gartner has lined up a host of hot topics and session tracks, so ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Courtney Allen. TV genome visualization (source: bluefin on Wikimedia Commons) Jay Jacobs will teach a two-day tutorial course on data analysis and machine learning for cybersecurity at the O'Reilly Security Conference, October 29 to November 1, 2017, in New York City. Early price ends September 14. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Security Podcast to examine the challenges and opportunities for security practitioners, with a focus on the people on the frontlines of security, working to build better defenses. Find us on Stitcher, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Security Podcast, Courtney Nash, former ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Data Geek. From the author of the bestsellers, Data Scientist and Julia for Data Science, this book covers four foundational areas of data science. The first area is the data science pipeline including methodologies and the data scientist's toolbox. The second are essential practices needed in understanding the data including questions and hypotheses. The third are pitfalls to avoid in the data science process. The fourth is an awareness of future trends and how modern technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) fit into the data science framework.  The following chapters cover these four foundational areas: ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: HAN Lijun. How Big Is a Terabyte of Data? By JINAG Buxing It seems that one mile distance isn’t long, and that a cubic mile isn’t that big if compared with the size of the earth. You may be surprised if I tell you the entire world’s population could all fit in a cubic mile of space. Hendrik Willem van Loon, a Dutch-American writer, once wrote the similar thing in one of his books. Teradata is a famous provider of database warehousing products. The brand name was designed to be impressive ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. The rise of mobile technology has created a multitude of new ways for businesses to interact with customers. Another defining feature of the digital age is the development of many powerful big data analytics tools. These two components — customer data and the tools to understand the story it tells — can provide a game-changing competitive advantage. Big data can provide another critical value to today’s small businesses. The technological advances of the digital age have also presented new risks, most notably cyberattacks. As the problem of ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Sandeep Raut. Today more than even, every business is focusing on collecting the data and applying analytics to be competitive. Big Data Analytics has passed the hype stage and has become the essential part of business plans. Data Lake is the latest buzzword for dumping every element of data you can find internally or externally. If you Google the term data lake, you will get more than 14 million results. With entry of Hadoop, everyone wants to dump their siloes of data warehouses, data marts and create data lake. The idea behind a data lake ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Pranav Rastogi. We are pleased to announce the availability of Imanis Data on Azure. Azure HDInsight is the industry leading fully-managed cloud Apache Hadoop & Spark offering, which allows customers to run reliable open source analytics with an industry-leading SLA. Imanis Data provides data management software that allows users to migrate data and add backup and restore functionality for their big data applications. This combined offering of Imanis Data on HDInsight and integration with Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Store enables customers to migrate to cloud faster, protect critical data assets from application or ... Read More