Tag: Trends

Feed: Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; Building and maintaining automations is no longer an IT-only activity. When analyzing the automations that 900 midsize and enterprise organizations built in our enterprise automation platform last year, we found that nearly half (47%) of all automation builders worked outside of IT. So, what’s driving this IT automation trend? And are there others worth highlighting from our data? You can read on to find the answers to both questions. Access our Work Automation Index to see everything we found Departments outside of IT increasingly turn to automation Given the landscape of automation builders, it’s perhaps ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Andrej Hadji-Vasilev; Online Dating Statistics: User Data The number of users on online dating apps and sites continues to increase. 1. The Number of Dating App Users Grew to 323.9 Million in 2021 Even though dating apps have been around for a lot longer than five years, they have exploded in popularity since 2016, when there were 240.9 million dating app users worldwide. In 2021, that number jumped up to 323.9 million users. Millions of Dating App Users Worldwide 2. 19% of Internet Users Are Currently Using an Online Dating Platform In a recent study, 19% of ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. The explosion of large models continues. Several developments are especially noteworthy. DeepMind’s Gato model is unique in that it’s a single model that’s trained for over 600 different tasks; whether or not it’s a step towards general intelligence (the ensuing debate may be more important than the model itself), it’s an impressive achievement. Google Brain’s Imagen creates photorealistic images that are impressive, even after you’ve seen what DALL-E 2 can do. And Allen AI’s Macaw (surely an allusion to Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru’s Stochastic Parrots paper) is open source, one tenth the size of GPT-3, ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Nupur Pal; IntroductionWhat will be the latest trends in blockchain technology? Will the industry have a massive impact on the blockchain trends 2022 with the new technology advancement? Our article will try to solve all these questions that you have in your mind by reflecting on and discussing the latest trends in blockchain technology.The technology has various potential use cases which can solve different issues concerning digital security and trust. Many people think that blockchain trends only correlate with the trading of digital currencies. However, that’s not true.Trends in blockchain technology have many other use cases too ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; The Top 26 Data Privacy Statistics You Need to Know Here are 26 data privacy statistics that will give you a better idea of how companies collect and use personal data, what the general public thinks of this prying behavior and how widespread the problem is. 1. How Much of Your Traffic Is Being Tracked? A study by WhoTracks.Me found that around 82 percent of web traffic contains third-party scripts by Google, and almost half of them are confirmed to be tracking you. That’s around 40  percent of web traffic being tracked by Google alone ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Nupur Pal; IntroductionNew web development trends have sprung forth bringing fruits of excellent features for websites and applications and exceptional innovation in technology. Thus enabling an extraordinarily flexible user experience! This comfort and ease we experience digitally today is a consequence of the continually evolving web development trends.From cloud-based solutions to chatbots and user-friendly UI, the latest trends in web development are only a boon to the web development world. While the new trends in web development are highly commendable in their assistance to us in the technological arena, it also puts forth signs that these web ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. April was the month for large language models. There was one announcement after another; most new models were larger than the previous ones, several claimed to be significantly more energy efficient. The largest (as far as we know) is Google’s GLAM, with 1.2 trillion parameters–but requiring significantly less energy to train than GPT-3. Chinchilla has ¼ as many parameters as GPT-3, but claims to outperform it. It’s not clear where the race to bigger and bigger models will end, or where it will lead us. The PaLM model claims to be able to reason about ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In today’s market, business success often lies in the ability to glean accurate insights and predictions from data. However, data scientists and analysts often find that the data they have at their disposal isn’t enough to help them make accurate predictions for their use cases. A variety of factors might alter an outcome and should be taken into account when making a prediction model. Google Trends is an available option, presenting a broad source of data that reflects global trends more comprehensively. This can help enrich a dataset to yield a better model. You can ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Rachel Van Dinter. The education technology industry is rapidly evolving. In 2021, education technology companies (EdTechs) had another record year of investments, mergers and acquisitions, and global expansion. HolonIQ reported nearly $21B in venture investments made through more than 1,500 funding rounds, with firms such as Owl Ventures announcing more than $1B in new EdTech capital. To support new and existing education offerings, EdTechs use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for technical and cloud solutions, as well as education startup industry and go-to-market expertise, to accommodate customers with speed, scale, and accuracy while helping to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Boiled Data. [This article was first published on Boiled Data, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Brodeur, Abel, Andrew E Clark, Sarah Fleche, and Nattavudh Powdthavee. 2021. “COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends.” Journal of Public Economics 193: 104346. Ciaffi, Jacopo, Riccardo Meliconi, Maria Paola Landini, Luana Mancarella, Veronica Brusi, Cesare Faldini, and Francesco Ursini. 2021. “Seasonality of Back Pain in Italy: An Infodemiology Study.” International ... Read More