Tag: Power

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Hugo D'Ulisse. “We are at the cusp of one of the most exciting times in our lives and, if we get our strategy for AI right, then the UK will be able to reap the rewards for our economy for decades to come.” Greg ClarkSecretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy  It feels like exciting times for government departments, both central and local, with artificial intelligence (AI) and all its promise of efficiency and smart decision making climbing up the strategic agenda. I know from experience with customers across the worlds of commerce and the ... Read More

Feed: Alation. Author: Stephanie McReynolds. We live in an age of unprecedented speed and breadth of technological change. Since the year 2000, new discoveries are coming at a fast and furious pace in many technology sectors, including software, material science, neuroscience, and genetics. Innovations are also uniquely broad compared to other eras of technological innovation, spanning multiple technologies from innovations like genetically targeted cancer treatments to 3D bioprinting of tissue. Observers have called this “The Second Machine Age” and The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” In his book titled “The Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Klaus Schwab describes the age as, “characterized by a ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Maraki Ketema. Women are often the unsung heroes in history. Women’s History Month is our chance to pay homage to these heroic women, and celebrate the accomplishments of today’s heroes, who are making incredible contributions in every profession. This month is also an opportunity to grapple as a community with some of the challenges and shortcomings in our society that hold women back. To help kick start the conversation, I caught up with Talithia Williams, whom I met during the 2017 Tableau Conference. Talithia is a professor, author, speaker, and TV host. Talithia has a deep ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: satyajit maitra. BigQuery is Google’s serverless, highly scalable, enterprise data warehouse designed to make all your data analysts productive at an unmatched price-performance. Because there is no infrastructure to manage, you can focus on analyzing data to find meaningful insights using familiar SQL without the need for a database administrator. Analyze all your data by creating a logical data warehouse over managed, columnar storage, as well as data from object storage and spreadsheets. Build and operationalize machine learning solutions with simple SQL. Easily and securely share insights within your organization and beyond as ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Andrea Manero-Bastin. This article, written by the Facebook research team, was written by Ben Letham, Brian Karrer, Guilherme Ottoni and Eytan Bakshy. It features some of the techniques used by Facebook for A/B testing. Facebook relies on a large suite of backend systems to serve billions of people each day. Many of these systems have a large number of internal parameters. For example, the web servers that power Facebook use the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) to serve requests, and HHVM has dozens of parameters that control the just-in-time compiler. As another ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Kartik Patel. As the need for advanced analytics increases in organizations, enterprises large and small struggle to find and sustain the professional resources they need to meet their requirements for data, analysis and strategic direction. In some businesses, Data Scientists, professional analysts and IT staff are often buried under requests for analysis and data and, as a result, these teams are unable to focus on strategic issues and on crucial questions that require 100% accuracy to drive the direction of the business. For other businesses, the issue is more pressing. When ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Aileen Scott. “Information is the oil of 21st century and analytics is the combustion engine” ~ Gartner  Big data is the new oil and there’s no denying to this fact. In certain ways the analogy fits, it is easy to draw attention about how information (data) is used to power much of the transformative technology that we see today such as predictive analysis, automation and artificial intelligence etc.   As technology move towards the businesses domain, many organisations are drawing their focus towards data-driven decision making. Many organisations and firms are ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Tiffany Carpenter. These days, an ever-increasing number of customer interactions are taking place over digital channels and every single digital interaction offers an incredible source of customer intelligence for organisations to tap into. With every visit, customers leave a valuable trail of digital breadcrumbs. These breadcrumbs give organisations the ability to follow each individual customer journey and each customer’s experience along the way. With every browse, click, like and share your customer creates their own digital footprint. And with their consent, brands can harness this rich source of data to anticipate and deliver on the needs ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki. Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our series featuring what you might have missed in Neo4j media from the past fortnight.Last time, I pointed out that we have an incredible Neo4j Online Meetup and that you’re a square if you’re missing out on it (seriously, just sign up). The particular meetup that I shared was a presentation by the International Salmon Data Laboratory (ISDL) and how they’re using Neo4j to track salmon and therefore track climate change. Good stuff.This week…I’ve picked another Neo4j Online Meetup. But hear me out: If you ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: free range statistics - R. So now that I live in Melbourne, to blend in with the locals I need to at least vaguely follow the AFL (Australian Football League). For instance, my work like many others has an AFL footy-tipping competition. I was initially going to choose my tips based on wisdom of the crowds (ie choose the favourite) but decided that this was a good occasion to try something a bit more scientific.As is the case for most organised sports these days, there is rich data available on AFL results and other metrics. After wasting ... Read More