Tag: Trends

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amit Dogra. The modern information society has rightly considered the internet its backbone. It is the core. Globally, internet penetration has crossed 59.5%. All of this point at the inevitable necessity of web apps and the corresponding standards of web development being expected. Today’s business landscape has a crucial digital paradigm that cannot be left unplumbed. Let us take a look at some stats about internet usage. Globally, there are 66 billion active internet users This includes 32 billion mobile internet users There are over 2 billion websites globally. That proves ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; Given that the internet is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to send information long distances, it’s no surprise that people made retail websites to take advantage of this new technology. However, you can only see how far it’s gone by looking at some online shopping statistics. Key Takeaways: Global e-commerce sales are expected to hit $4.2 trillion in 2021.Around 76 percent of U.S. adults shop online.Over half of consumers prefer shopping in a physical store.Smartphones are slowly becoming the preferred way to order online. The e-commerce industry and online shopping effectively cover all ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Katharine Bierce. Salesforce.org wanted to understand how higher education is evolving around the world. Together with Ipsos and the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salesforce.org surveyed more than 2,000 students and staff across 10 countries to better understand their needs amidst the tumult of the pandemic. The second edition of the Connected Student Report highlights what’s top of mind for students—and how staff and higher education institutions can foster student success.  Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. Data skills educators, dig into the analytics with our Trends in ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Let’s start with a moment of silence for O’Reilly Author Toby Segaran, who passed away on August 11, 2021.  Toby was one of the people who got the Data Science movement started. His book, Programming Collective Intelligence, taught many how to start using their data. Throughout his career, he mentored many, and was particularly influential in mentoring young women interested in science and technology. Toby is greatly missed by everyone in the Data Science community. AI and Data Margaret Mitchell joins HuggingFace to create tools to help build fair algorithms.Embedded Machine Learning for Hard Hat ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . The pandemic has proved to be a catalyst of sorts for digital transformation, forcing organizations of all sizes to rethink how they operate, what they offer their customers, and their commitment to the digital employee experience.Before March 2020, many organizations were simply improving what they were doing, not transforming, says Jorge Lopez, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner.“Before the pandemic … roughly 80% of our clients weren’t necessarily pursuing transformation even if they called it that, because it implies major change and new markets and new revenue streams — even entirely new business models,” Lopez ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Mike Alreend. As a result of the pandemic, the use of artificial intelligence in many businesses has increased. By 2023, according to IDC, investment in AI technology would have increased to $97.9 billion. Artificial intelligence's potential utility has only increased after the global COVID-19 epidemic.  AI will become more essential as companies continue to automate day-to-day operations and better comprehend COVID-affected datasets. Businesses are more digitally connected than ever before since the lockdown and work-from-home policy was introduced. When it comes to identifying the technologies that will revolutionize how we live, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Michael Kevin Spencer. Photo credit: Unsplash. Data Science is an exciting field for knowledge workers because it increasingly intersects with the future of how industries, society, governance and policy will function. While it's one of those vague terms thrown around a lot for students, it's actually fairly simple to define. Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge and actionable insights from data across a broad range of application domains. Data science ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alethea Toh. This blog post was co-authored by Amir Dahan, Senior Program Manager, Anupam Vij, Principal Program Manager, Skye Zhu, Data and Applied Scientist 2, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In our 2020 retrospective, we highlighted shifts in the active cyberthreat landscape. With the huge surge in internet activity, particularly with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have ramped up significantly in both volume and complexity. We continue to see such trends in the first half of the calendar year 2021. With the increased usage and supply of ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Business intelligence is not an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp. It’s not dead. And it’s not being superseded by artificial intelligence.In fact, BI is alive and well; it’s becoming easier to use, it’s expanding out to more employees, it’s moving to the cloud, it’s becoming embedded in broader ERP and CRM software suites, and it now encompasses AI and machine learning.According to 2020 market share numbers from IDC, the total worldwide business intelligence and analytics market hit $19.2 billion, growing a healthy 5.2% despite pandemic-related economic upheavals. Looking ahead, BI growth is expected to accelerate as companies ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Mike Loukides. Security continues to be in the news: most notably the Kaseya ransomware attack, which was the first case of a supply chain ransomware attack that we’re aware of. That’s new and very dangerous territory. However, the biggest problem in security remains simple: take care of the basics. Good practices for authentication, backups, and software updates are the best defense against ransomware and many other attacks. Facebook has said that it is now focusing on building the virtual reality Metaverse, which will be the successor to the web. To succeed, VR will have to get beyond ... Read More