Tag: machine learning

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: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 has been released, combining the latest R language engine with multi-processor performance and tools for managing R packages reproducibly. You can download Microsoft R Open 3.5.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux from MRAN now. Microsoft R Open is 100% compatible with all R scripts and packages, and works with all your favorite R interfaces and development environments. This update brings a number of minor fixes to the R language engine from the R core team. It also makes available a host of new R packages contributed by the community, including ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: insightr. By Gabriel Vasconcelos and Yuri Fonseca We are happy to introduce our new machine learning method called Boosting Smooth Trees (BooST) (full article here). This model was a joint work with professors Marcelo Medeiros and Álvaro Veiga. The BooST uses a different type of regression tree that allows us to estimate the derivatives of very general nonlinear models. In other words, the model is differentiable and it has an analytical solution. The consequence is that now we can estimate partial effects of a characteristic on the response variable, which provide us much more interpretation than traditional ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Tara Jana. All of us have creative ideas – ideas that can improve our lives and the lives of thousands, perhaps even millions of others. But how often do we act on turning those ideas into a reality? Most of the time, we do not believe in our ideas strongly enough to pursue them. Other times we feel like we lack a platform to build out our idea or showcase it. Most good ideas don’t go beyond those initial creative thoughts in our head. If you’re a professional working in the field of artificial intelligence ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Stairs and brick wall (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Deep Learning models" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, September 4-7, 2018. One of the key findings of a survey we released earlier this year (How Companies are Putting AI to Work through Deep Learning) was that the leading reason holding companies back from incorporating deep learning was their lack of access to skilled people. One-fifth of respondents pointed to a skills gap as one of the reasons they haven’t integrated deep learning, and at the time of the survey, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Aneshan Ramaloo. In my previous blog post, I talked about how both retailers and consumers can benefit from applications of artificial intelligence and discussed some compelling use cases. I would like to take this post a step further and delve into a particular bugbear of mine: the struggle to find the right size. In addition, I would like to discuss how analytically driven solutions can play an integral role in solving this problem. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I avoid spending a lot of time shopping. So when I do go out, I really hope I ... 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: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Somera. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions on behalf of AWS customers.We launched new APN Badges in 2017 to help APN Partners highlight their partnership with AWS. These badges, in turn, help AWS customers identify and choose APN Partners by clearly showcasing the subject matter expertise offered by individual companies. Why APN Badges Matter for AWS Customers As you start to explore opportunities with our APN Partners, take special note ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Nathan Taber. This post contributed by Duke Takle and Kevin Hayes at Corteva AgriscienceAt Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPont, our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. As a global business, we support a network of research stations to improve agricultural productivity around the world As analytical technology advances the volume of data, as well as the speed at which it must be processed, meeting the needs of our scientists poses unique challenges. Corteva Cloud Engineering teams are responsible for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative access, software installations, changes to the global assembly cache, and so on. If your application requires more access than the preconfigured environment allows, you can deploy a custom Windows container instead. Azure App Service caches several parent images ... Read More