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Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: nickolus-plowden; There’s a long history of cities being transformed. Think of Istanbul over the centuries, changing from Greek to Roman, Ottoman to modern Turkish. Or nineteenth-century Paris under Napoleon III — a rapid overhaul that demolished historic neighborhoods and created the modern “City of Light” we know today. Whatever example you choose from history, you’ll likely find that the transformation was driven from the top down: by some kind of authority imposing a new plan on the city’s inhabitants. What they wanted was usually not a concern.Now, for the first ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today Oracle announced the 2017 findings of global research that audited 15,607 consumers across four key regions: EMEA (France, Germany, Italy, India, Spain, Sweden, UK) NA (Canada, USA), LAD (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico), and JAPAC (Australia, China) on their retail preferences and attitudes. Findings in the Retail in 4 Dimensions: Understanding Consumer Behavior in an Age of Relativity report highlighted three personas demonstrative of consumer behavior. It also revealed opportunities for retailers to identify the customer experience with personalization, mobile payments, automatic replenishment and virtual reality. The research insights indicate that consumer preferences for delivery, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jean-Cyril Schutterle. Even just five years back, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was still the stuff of science fiction, confined to research labs and tech giants’ showcases. It was pretty similar to the auto show concept car – there to be admired but not to be touched. Today, though, AI is everywhere. Whether it’s virtual assistants scheduling our meetings, facial recognition software or increasingly autonomous cars, AI is making itself felt in all our private and professional lives. One thing is certain – AI is here to stay. But quite what its impact ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Kristoffer Nilsson. Creating an architecture to support AI is about creating a modern platform for advanced analytics, and means being able to support all steps of the analytics lifecycle. Requirements An architecture for advanced analytics/artificial intelligence need to cover three main domains, data, discovery and deployment. Data Data is the foundation of analytics: after all, we need something to analyse. Data can come from a multitude of places and include a multitude of types such as: Traditional data in data warehouses and operational systems, most commonly relational databases and files such as CSV and XML. Because ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Sandeep Raut. Gone are the days when brand communication was mostly made up of ads that appeared on billboards, in magazines and/or on television. Today, all of this is augmented with Digital revolution. The fashion industry is engaging with digital technology in new and different ways, in order to stay competitive and to engage with the ways that consumers are searching for jewelry, clothes, and accessories. Technology is turning the fashion industry inside out. Today, consumers are most active as digital shoppers in the Fashion industry and are demanding a heartening digital experience across channels ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amelia Matteson. This article was written by Dan Shewan. If science-fiction movies have taught us anything, it’s that the future is a bleak and terrifying dystopia ruled by murderous sentient robots. Fortunately, only one of these things is true – but that could soon change, as the doomsayers are so fond of telling us.  Image via Abdul Rahid Artificial intelligence and machine learning are among the most significant technological developments in recent history. Few fields promise to “disrupt” (to borrow a favored term) life as we know it quite like machine learning, ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Art Schoeller. Digital rewrites the rules of businessDiscover how to reinvent your business with technology at the core. Watch the webinar replay    We’re seeing a significant challenge today in finding the right enterprise-level team messaging app that’s easy to use, compatible with a work environment, and combines various daily functions so employees don’t have to bounce back and forth between platforms or apps causing confusion. There’s quite a proliferation of team messaging apps in the market, and having so many options at your fingertips makes it difficult for application development & delivery (AD&D) pros searching ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. Equestrian sports is one of the oldest forms of sports entertainment. Its history can be dated back to the ancient Greek civilization. Since then, the trots have transcended the periodical barriers from time to time, walking stride to stride with the age-specific customs, and entertaining the crowds in the process. And, in this present age, where everything is digitized, the trots have now become digital too. I recently attended the annual World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen—the Wimbledon of Equestrian Sports—and interviewed Ingrid Klimke, the two times Equestrian Olympic champion; (Mr.) Michael Mronz, the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Luca Garlanda. Even as we come to terms with the increasing presence of fake news in the political landscape, we need to consider the vulnerability of companies, brands and employees to the same phenomenon. Social media across all channels have become an accelerator to enable unverified, and unverifiable, claims to travel far and fast. Fake news is nothing new The quote “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” is often attributed to Mark Twain. It may be apocryphal, but it is certainly true that his death was reported in the US in 1897, while he ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: The USGS OWI blog. A magnitude 8.1 earthquake was measured in the Pacific region offshore Chiapas, Mexico at 04:49:21 UTC on September 8th 2017. Working in the Water Mission Area for the USGS, our Data Science Team was already hard at work polishing up water visualizations for the devastating Hurricane Harvey, as well as creating a new visualization for Hurricane Irma. That is to say, the resources available for a timely visualization were already spent. By 10 am on Friday however, a team of USGS groundwater scientist had realized that the affects of the earthquake were being ... Read More