Tag: data analytics

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Chris Kachris. Emerging applications like machine learning (ML), big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) has created the need for many companies to hire highly skilled and experienced work force. Demand for data scientists, ML engineers and data engineers is booming and will only increase in the next years. The January report from Indeed, one of the top job sites, showed a 29% increase in demand for data scientists year over year and a 344% increase since 2013. Salaries and OpEx At the same time the personnel cost of this skilled ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Chris Kachris. Machine learning applications require powerful and scalable computing systems that can sustain the high computation complexity of these applications. Companies that are working on the domain of machine learning have to allocate a significant amount of their budget for the OpEx of machine learning applications whether this is done on cloud or on-prem. Typical machine learning application (especially when auto ML is used) can scale to as much as 30 nodes or higher (servers) to provide useful results, increasing significantly the TCO. For example, Auto ML automate many data ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Microsoft Business Applications Summit June 10 – 11  in Atlanta, Georgia is almost here and you have one more reason to attend year…A chance to meet the community super stars.  We know, one of the primary reasons people go to conferences is to meet the presenters.  And at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS), we have an entire “Ask the Experts” experience to make this easy to meet Microsoft full time employees…but what about community folks like MVPs, Authors and Industry experts? We have created a community lounge and will be scheduling a ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Launching a start-up can be as competitive as struggling to find a corporate job that actually satisfies you. Promoting and marketing your start-up is challenging – you thought passion and enthusiasm were enough to drive it alone, but even with these two attributes, you know just exactly what’s been lacking.If you can launch a start-up after months and years of contemplating, then you can surely devise a marketing strategy to help you elevate your brand. Your marketing strategy is the fuel your brand needs. Your target audience is out there – unhinged, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here. The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. To subscribe, follow this link.   Announcements Maximize your job prospects. Earn a Penn State Master’s in Data Analytics part-time and online. Learn to design and apply data management techniques to solve business problems involving high volumes of structured and unstructured data. Strive toward a leadership role in the field of data science. GRE/GMAT waivers available. Improve your marketability -- apply now.  See details. Westat is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Eric Johnson. Welcome to the fifth edition of the AWS Serverless ICYMI (in case you missed it) quarterly recap. Every quarter, we share all of the most recent product launches, feature enhancements, blog posts, webinars, Twitch live streams, and other interesting things that you might have missed!If you didn’t see them, check our previous posts for what happened in 2018: So, what might you have missed this past quarter? Here’s the recap. Amazon API Gateway Amazon API Gateway improved the experience for publishing APIs on the API Gateway Developer Portal. In addition, we also added features ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Hong Ooi. By Hong Ooi and Alex Kyllo This post is to announce the availability of AzureKusto, the R interface to Azure Data Explorer (internally codenamed “Kusto”), a fast, fully managed data analytics service from Microsoft. It is available from CRAN, or you can install the development version from GitHub via devtools::install_github("cloudyr/AzureKusto"). AzureKusto provides an interface (including DBI compliant methods for connecting to Kusto clusters and submitting Kusto Query Language (KQL) statements, as well as a dbplyr style backend that translates dplyr queries into KQL statements. On the administrator side, it extends the AzureRMR framework ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. An increasing number of businesses are turning to Oracle Autonomous Database - the industry’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database—to gain deeper and more meaningful data insight, faster than ever before. The result has been freeing employees to do more value-added work—in large part thanks to deeper, faster insights into data than has been possible beforehand. According to Hwee-Xian Tan, Senior Analyst, SoHo and SME Research, “Asia-Pacific enterprises [are] opening up to and having a sharper appetite for database-as-a-service (DBaaS) propositions with AI and ML features being particularly strong drivers for enterprise migration to cloud-based database environments. This is ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Missy Hannah. Interested in making business decisions with big data analytics? Our Wiley SAS Business Series book Profit Driven Business Analytics: A Practitioner’s Guide to Transforming Big Data into Added Value by Bart Baesens, Wouter Verbeke, and Cristian Danilo Bravo Roman has just the information you need to learn how to use SAS to make data and analytics decision-making a part of your core business model! This book combines the authorial team’s worldwide consulting experience and high-quality research to open up a road map to handling data, optimizing data analytics for specific companies, and continuously evaluating ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Divya Singh. Technological progress and the development of infrastructure has increased the popularity of Big Data immensely. Businesses have started to realize that data can be used to accurately predict the needs of customers which can increase profits significantly. The growing use of Big Data can be assessed from Forrester’s prediction of the global Big Data market to grow 14% this year. Even though more n more individuals are entering this field, yet 41% of organisations face challenges due to lack of talent to implement Big Data as surveyed by Accenture. Users begin Big Data projects thinking it will be easy ... Read More