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Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. I’ve written before on the importance of people sharing data as broadly as possible in an organization. A company may have hundreds, or even thousands, of people with “analyst” in their job titles, but if you keep access to data centralized, you’re also keeping the capacity for innovation centralized — and limited. At the same time, simply opening up the data floodgates to your workforce, without a solid strategy, will create more confusion than success. The better approach is to package up the complexity into accessible tools — analytical applications — to ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: aylee-nielsen; Recently, I had the honor of speaking with a number of the world’s most influential thought-leaders in the fields of data science, data analytics, machine learning and digital transformation. This group of prominent data technologists was more than happy to answer a wide variety of question on topics ranging from the fast-evolving area of unified governance and preparing for General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) to transformative hybrid data management technologies, and of course, data science and machine learning.Join this incredible group of experts at Fast Track You Data – ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Evolution of the bicycle (source: Al2 on Wikimedia Commons) For more on the role of big data and analytics in transportation, check out the transportation and autonomous vehicles sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, September 17-20, 2017. Best price ends August 4. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast to explore the opportunities and techniques driving big data, data science, and AI. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Evangelos Simoudis, co-founder of Synapse Partners and a frequent ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Medha Agarwal. Fractal art (source: Pixabay) Check out the Strata Business Summit at the Strata Data Conference in New York City, Sept. 25-28, 2017, to learn more from data-driven businesses—including American Express, BBC Worldwide, and LinkedIn. Early price ends August 11. Driverless cars aren’t the only application for deep learning on the road: neural networks have begun to make their way into every corner of the automotive industry, from supply-chain management to engine controllers. In this installment of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the enterprise, we speak ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Big data has been growing exponentially faster than the entire software business put together. This makes the topic of big data management and analytics one of the biggest issues the technological era has faced thus far. As Bernard Marr, a contributor for Forbes, wrote: “Big data is not a fad. We are just at the beginning of a revolution that will touch every business and every life on this planet.” But the vast majority of people are simply casting the issue aside, he continues. In actuality, big ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Robert Stroud. Forrester’s What It Means PodcastConversations with thought leaders to define and demystify the changing market. Listen or subscribe now Every day I hear more about the pressure I&O organizations are under to accelerate the delivery of applications and services and the pressure it is placing on the existing resources.  As organizations transition, DevOps, formally the purview of unicorns, is now transitioning to mainstream.  DevOps, which started as a grassroots approach by development organizations who were looking to extend their agile practices to support the faster deployment of code, has become business as usual ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL. Author: Sean Hull. via GIPHY Amazon releases a new database offering every other day. It sure isn’t easy to keep up. Join 35,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Let’s say you’re hiring a devops & you want to suss out their database knowledge? Or you’re hiring a professional services firm or freelance consultant. Whatever the case you’ll need to sift through for the best people. Here’s how. Also: How to interview an AWS expert What database does Amazon support for caching? Caching is a popular way to speed up access to your backend database ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Big Data along with IoT and Machine Learning, is all already helping enterprises undergo huge transformation and disrupting industry verticals and horizontals. By now, it is safe to say that Big Data has arrived, although it is still early days. As invincible as it seems, there’s still a chink in the Big Data armor of several enterprises. According to a report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and Iron Mountain, enterprises need to go the extra mile before using data to their advantage. The study included surveying 1,800 senior ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. The data analyst person of mystery is widely courted, and big data is becoming one of those buzzwords. You know the ones. According to Ramesh Dontha, everyone talks about big data, but few understand it. This causes any number of strange reactions, from those who pretend to get it for the IT street cred, to professional analysts disagreeing about the details of its definition. If you’re looking to break into a career in IT, or switch up your focus, becoming an analyst and researching the role of ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Have you ever sat down and imagined the capabilities and limitations of big data – a term we give to drawing insights by applying analytics to the ever-growing amounts of digital information? Sometimes, it seems tempting to think that big data can do anything. With big data, you can tell what is likely to happen; you can find unexpected relationships as well as monitor situations as they develop. Moreover, big data can be used to fix a problem before it becomes a crisis. We are going to ... Read More