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Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. re:Invent 2018 is around the corner! This year, data and analytics tracks are bigger than ever.This blog post highlights the data and analytics sessions at re:Invent 2018. If you’re attending this year, you want to check out the sessions, workshops, chalk talks, and builder sessions that we have at the conference. As in previous years, you can find these events in various topic categories, such as Analytics, Deep Learning, AI Summit, Serverless, Architecture, and Databases. We have great sessions from Intuit, Nike, Intel, WuXi NextCODE, Warner Brothers, AutoDesk, NFL, SendGrid, McDonald, AirBnB, Hilton, Guardian Life, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andy Davies. If policing is going to become more reliant on analytics and the insights it produces, then it must be able to do this quickly. In my first post I looked at the role of analytics in policing and how analytics could and should be used to benefit modern policing. However, a key point that can be forgotten is analytics is only as good as the data it is based on. It’s vital to have access to a wide range of internal and external data assets that are carefully managed and ready for analytical processing ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. We recently interviewed Pankaj Rai, a well-known expert in analytics and banking and is currently the Senior Vice President Strategy at Wells Fargo. The former Analytics Director at Dell International Services, Pankaj shared his views on some of the hot topics in the financial & banking sector right now – digital transformation, innovation in fintech, new regulations, and blockchain to name a few. Read the complete interview below: What does your day typically look like at Wells Fargo? How do you start and end your day? (Laughs) My days are quite straightforward ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  We’re rapidly approaching the point where AI will be so pervasive that it’s inevitable that someone will be injured or killed.  If you thought this was covered by simple product defect warranties it’s not at all that clear.  Here’s what we need to start thinking about. So far the press reports of AI misbehavior fall mostly in the humorous or embarrassingly incompetent categories.  Alexa orders doll houses when a little girl asks it to.  Robot guards fall into pools or push people over.  Google tags black people as ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Todd Wright. Click to enlarge In the US, we often notice that what starts in California will eventually spread to the rest of the country. Whether it's related to fashion, culture or legal issues, if it starts in the golden state there's a good chance it will spread east in the US. Think about blue jeans and the modern-day plastic hula hoop as just two examples. With that in mind, it came as no surprise when, on June 28, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law another "first" – the most comprehensive (and the first statewide) consumer privacy ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Privacy is one of our main concerns here at Cloudwards.net. We tout the best tools to maintain it, too, many of which come with a price tag. While we do our best to mention free tools, as well, many of the options fly under the radar. That’s why we’ve put together a guide of 99 free tools to protect your privacy. While most come with some downsides, the options we found will maintain your anonymity on your desktop and online. While we’ve tested most of the tools on the list, we haven’t tested them all ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Optimizing customer experience with precision, scale and in an economically feasible way is a struggle. However, with the right data, analytics and interaction capabilities, customer journeys can be mapped, significant events can be predicted, and interactions can be poised and used to guide each customer to the optimal destination in an automated, "always on" system. When done right, customer satisfaction and revenue go up, while marketing and customer care costs go down.At this year’s Teradata Analytics Universe event, I held a session explaining the value of mapping customer journeys and how it’s possible to do so accurately ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Cathleen Nelson, Sr. Manager Cloud Business Development. DataStax is proud to announce that we have joined Microsoft’s Private Offers program, in which Microsoft partners create exclusive offers for their closest customers on Azure Marketplace. The Marketplace Revolution Consumerization has forever disrupted how enterprise IT does business, as evidenced with the introduction and adoption of the mobile device. Employee productivity has been cited as the driver that has IT sanctioning popular conveniences such as personal consumer electronics, online services, and social media. As we quickly approach the holiday shopping season, we are reminded ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Consumer behaviour cannot be so easily predicted from social media reactions like Facebook Likes and Twitter shares. There’s no real way to know. There’s a lot of noise out there. There’s a lot of data available, but it’s not powerful in prediction. “Let me give you an example. Let’s say I post something online about a Ferrari and you “Like” it. Are you liking Ferrari or are you liking your post? There’s no real way to know. There’s a lot of noise out there. There’s a lot of data available, but it’s ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R by R(yo). This past weekend was the 9th JapanR Conference hosted at LINECorporation in Tokyo, Japan! I’ve been back in Japan for nearly a year now and I’ve been going tonearly every one of the R user meetups here,TokyoR, and it’s been a great experienceto learn about R and its wide variety of uses by Japanese practitionersand academics. Besides the near-monthly meetup of TokyoR there aresmaller gatherings spread throughout Japan such asFukuokaR andTsukubaR but the meeting that gathers thebiggest crowd is the JapanR Conference held everyDecember since 2010. Of course, there are outliers such as the ... Read More