Tag: optimization

Feed: Teradata Blog. The traditional companies took a century to grow their first 100 million customers. In contrast, the internet giants have evolved at a much faster pace. With companies like Google and Facebook ‘hyperscaling’ in 10 to 20 years, they have set an unparalleled pace for every industry.  So what’s behind the hyperscalable business model? It turns out that the algorithm is the Internet’s billion dollar unicorn, transforming and innovating faster than humans. The New Ingredients Behind Successful AI Deployments The companies succeeding with AI are taking advantage of today’s technology landscape to drive new developments and innovation. They ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Suneel Grover. In a previous posting, SAS Customer Intelligence 360 was highlighted in the context of delivering relevant product, service, and content recommendations using automated machine learning within digital experiences. Shifting gears, SAS recognizes there are different user segments for our platform. This post will focus on building custom analytical recommendation models for delivering customer personalization. (Image 1: SAS Customer Intelligence 360 - User personas) Competition in customer experience management has never been as challenging as it is now. Customers spend more money in aggregate, but less per brand. The average size of a single purchase ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MinervaDB; Recently one of our prospective customers asked this question, “We use Amazon RDS for MySQL, Do we still need a MySQL Database Architect / DBA / Engineer? ”  The quick answer is – Yes,  you still need a MySQL DBA to solve problems which Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora for MySQL cannot solve, We spend almost 6 hours in meeting, helping the customer to understand how cloud Database Infrastructure and Database as a Service (DBaaS) simplifies Database Infrastructure provisioning and rolling-out scalability and high availability solutions faster across multiple locations, This post is about how ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  Getting an AI startup to scale for an IPO is currently elusive.  Several different strategies are being discussed around the industry and here we talk about the horizontal strategy and the increasingly favored vertical strategy. Looks like there’s a problem brewing in AI startup land.  While AI is most certainly destined to be the next great general purpose technology, on a par with the steam engine, the automobile, and electrification, there just aren’t any examples of new AI-first companies that look like they’ll grow that big. OK, in ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MyDBOPS; MySQL 8.0 has come with a list of new features for DBA’s ,we will discuss the new feature in MySQL 8.0 which supports Descending index.Prior to MySQL 8.0 (i.e MySQL 5.6 and 5.7) creating desc index syntax was supported but desc keyword was ignored, Now in MySQL 8.0 release descending index is extended are supported. What is index? Indexes play an important role in performance optimization  and they are used frequently to speed up access to particular data and reduce disk I/O operations . To understand index easily you can imagine a book,every book has ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Igor Bobriakov. The insurance industry is regarded as one of the most competitive and less predictable business spheres. It is instantly related to risk. Therefore, it has always been dependent on statistics. Nowadays, data science has changed this dependence forever. Now, insurance companies have a wider range of information sources for the relevant risk assessment. Big Data technologies are applied to predict risks and claims, to monitor and to analyze them in order to develop effective strategies for customers attraction and retention. Undoubtedly, the insurance companies benefit from data science application ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Vadim Tkachenko | July 13, 2018 |  Posted In: Benchmarks, MySQL, MySQL 8.0, Percona Server for MySQL PREVIOUS POST Recently, Dimitri published the results of measuring MySQL 8.0 on Intel Optane storage device. In this blog post, I wanted to look at this in more detail and explore the performance of MySQL 8, MySQL 5.7 and Percona Server for MySQL using a similar set up. The Intel Optane is a very capable device, so I was puzzled that Dimitri chose MySQL options that are either not safe or not recommended for production workloads. Since we have an ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Dr. Shirin Glander. I’ll be giving talks and workshops at the following three upcoming conferences; hope to meet some of you there! Traditional machine learning workflows focus heavily on model training and optimization; the best model is usually chosen via performance measures like accuracy or error and we tend to assume that a model is good enough for deployment if it passes certain thresholds of these performance criteria. Why a model makes the predictions it makes, however, is generally neglected. But being able to understand and interpret such models can be immensely important for improving model quality, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Markus Berroth. Machine Learning (ML) is still an underdog in the field of economics. However, it gets more and more recognition in the recent years. One reason for being an underdog is, that in economics and other social sciences one is not only interested in predicting but also in making causal inference. Thus many "off-the-shelf" ML algorithms are solving a fundamentally different problem. We here at STATWORX are also facing a variety of problems e.g. dynamic pricing optimization. "Prediction by itself is only occasionally sufficient. The post office is happy with any method that predicts correct addresses ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. We are stepping into an avant-garde period, powered by advances in robotics, the adoption of smart home appliances, intelligent retail stores, self-driving car technology etc. Machine leaning is at the forefront of all these new-age technological advancements. The development of automated machines which have the capability match up to or maybe even surpass the human intelligence in the coming time. Machine learning is undoubtedly the next ‘big’ thing. And, it is believed that most of the future technologies will be hooked on to it. Why is machine ... Read More