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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jay-limburn; Data can be an organization’s most valued asset, providing insights that help strengthen business. Knowing what works and what does not can help you invest more resources in what would work in the future.But there are two main challenges that might impede you from realizing the true value of your data and slowing your journey to adopting artificial intelligence (AI). Challenge 1: Inefficient data management The first challenge is the inefficiency in managing all the disparate data that flows through your enterprise. You need to ensure a fluid ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Higher education can be a great source of fulfillment and personal development. It’s also a powerful economic asset. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans with college degrees are almost twice as likely to be employed as those with only a high school diploma.But getting there isn’t easy. Many enroll in higher education programs but drop out after facing academic or personal difficulties. One study concluded that as many as 54.8 percent of incoming undergraduate students won’t complete a degree within six years. This is a ... Read More

Feed: Tractica. Author: Keith Kirkpatrick. What if your car’s navigation system could simultaneously calculate all of the possible routes from New York City, to Washington, D.C., and account for weather conditions, current and future traffic conditions, road construction, and even traffic signals, providing you with the optimal route in real time? How about an algorithm that would automatically mine through possible compounds to find the most stable one on which to develop a new, life-saving drug? Or how about a wedding planning application that would let a bride easily configure and reconfigure a seating arrangement using specific criteria relating to ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: JeanFrancoisPuget.   I just won a gold medal for my 9th rank in the TrackML challenge hosted on Kaggle.  That challenge was proposed by CERN (Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire).  The problem was to reconstruct the trajectories of high energy physics particle from the tracks they leave in the detectors used at CERN.  The data we were given was actually a simulation of forthcoming detectors at CERN.  Here is how the challenge is described by CERN: To explore what our universe is made of, scientists at CERN are colliding protons, essentially recreating mini big bangs, and meticulously observing these ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. Nowadays, text processing is developing rapidly, and several big companies provide their products which help to deal successfully with diverse text processing tasks. In case you need to do some text processing there are 2 options available. The first one is to develop the entire system on your own from scratch. This way proves to be very time and resource consuming. On the other hand, you can use the already accessible solutions developed by well-known companies. This option is usually faster and simpler. No specific knowledge or experience in ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: milind-tamaskar; The rate of innovation for technologies impacting IT architectures is staggering, particularly where data management is concerned.Advances such as blockchain technology are steadily gaining traction both in terms of investment and adoption. Well-informed IT professionals are starting to deploy these new technologies to establish a more connected, knowledgeable and secure business. Here are some ways blockchain technology and database advancements are working together to help facilitate some of those benefits. What is blockchain, exactly? Bloor Research sums up blockchain technology well in one of its recent reports, saying, ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: sajan-kuttappa; As any financial services executive knows, improving business results with precise, timely decisions is much harder than it looks. A multitude of factors can get in the way of achieving the optimal mix of risk mitigation, profitability, operational efficiency and customer experience, including the speed of technology advancements, new market entrants and constantly changing regulatory requirements. Even if you have enhanced your business decisions with predictive analytics, you may not be accounting for all the risks and uncertainties present in today’s financial landscape. For example, you may not be ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: doreen-dunn; Overview Are you getting enough sleep? On this week's episode of Making Data Simple, Dr. Kyu Rhee, Vice President and Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health, joins us to talk about how machine learning, AI, and Watson are advancing healthcare initiatives. Learn how far we have come in the health industry, what the future holds for data and healthcare, and Dr. Rhee's tips for Al about sleep. Show notes 00.25 Connect with Al Martin on Twitter and LinkedIn. 01.00 Connect with Dr. Kyu Rhee on Twitter and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: jennifer-clemente; It’s no secret that IBM can help companies transform data analytics, build a better cloud and ladder up to AI. The IBM approach to data analytics stands incorporates three core principles: making data simple and accessible; building a trusted analytics foundation; and scaling insights on demand.Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM Analytics, discusses these principles that guide the IBM Analytics business and have led to its latest major offering: IBM Cloud Private for Data, a platform for high-performance analytics that powers cloud-based applications so companies can be ready ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Earlier this week, Hortonworks announced financial results for the second quarter of 2018. Momentum is high at the halfway point of the year, as our CEO Rob Bearden announced another record breaking quarter! The Q2 revenue of $86.3 million marked a total revenue growth of 40 percent compared to the prior year. Q2 also was another quarter of positive operating cash flow. Hortonworks has been a public company for over four years now, and in that time, has evolved from the leading Hadoop provider to the leading global data management platform company. More enterprises ... Read More