Tag: Trends

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: matthew-johnsen; Running a machine learning pilot project is a great early step on the road to full adoption.To get started, you’ll need to build a cross-functional team of business analysts, engineers, data scientists and key stakeholders. From there, the process looks a lot like the scientific method taught in school. Here’s how it works: Identify an opportunity. Start with a problem tied directly to a specific business outcome. Make sure the subject of your pilot is small enough to tackle and clear enough to measure. For example, if you’re ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Chuck Powell. Presenting data results in the most informative and compelling manner is part of the role of the data scientist. It's all well and good to master the arcana of some algorithm, to manipulate and master the numbers and bend them to your will to produce a “solution” that is both accurate and useful. But, those activities are typically in pursuit of informing some decision or at least providing information that serves a purpose. So taking those results and making them compelling and understandable by your audience is part of your job! This article will focus ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. The new PYPL Popularity of Programming Languages (June 2018) index ranks Python at #1 and R at #7. Like the similar TIOBE language index, the PYPL index uses Google search activity to rank language popularity. PYPL, however, fcouses on people searching for tutorials in the respective languages as a proxy for popularity. By that measure, Python has always been more popular than R (as you'd expect from a more general-purpose language), but both have been growing at similar rates. The chart below includes the three data-oriented languages tracked by the index (and note the ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Cody Landefeld; Keyword research forms the core for web content.Keywords are the words and phrases people use when they’re searching for information. In the e-Commerce world, this means describing products and services offered from the cloud.You want keywords and phrases in your content that are:Used in search, andAccurately reflect what you’re sellingSprinkle these words and phrases throughout your content. Because your content will be descriptive rather than informative, keywords should be reflected in the categories you use to sort products on your site and in the URLs as well.Why Research Keywords?If you keep up on SEO ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sagar. In an era dominated by tech advancements, artificial intelligence (AI) in retail market is expected to emerge as a viable investment ground, given the pace at which AI is being incorporated in industry verticals. Amidst this backdrop, traditional retail chains have been modifying their approach, especially after 2017 witnessed the application for bankruptcy by 21 retail chains inclusive of biggies such as Toys R’ Us, Aerosoles and RadioShack. Many others like Sears and Macy’s had decided to close down hundreds of stores in the U.S., creating waves of panic in ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Early last year we announced the Hortonworks Data Heroes initiative. It’s our way of recognizing the Data Visionaries, Data Scientists, Data Architects, HCC Community Champion, and Cognitive Honors awards to organizations transforming their businesses through Big Data. Hortonworks has over 1,300 total customers spanning every industry, each with a unique Big Data journey. Our Data Heroes program lets us highlight a few customers who are helping create radical change in their industries. WHO ARE THE DATA HEROES? A Data Visionary: who recognizes the potential of Big Data to transform their organization, and leads the business to turn that ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Joanna Bieniek. 39 presenters, 39 presentations, 300 minutes of sharing knowledge and experience and 200 minutes of entertainment for over 800 attendees from business, government and academic circles. One SAS Team from Poland organised the 24th edition of the most important meeting of experts, practitioners and users of business analytics - SAS Forum Poland 2018. “Navigate Change with Analytics” was the motto of the conference that took place on May 21st, at the Warsaw Hilton Hotel. We live in a world of analytics, surrounded by data hidden in products and services we use every day. The analytic ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli. This blog post covers some of the sessions from Dataworks Summit San Jose 2018 that focus on the efforts of the Apache Hadoop YARN community. Come & explore the latest and greatest of Apache Hadoop YARN at Dataworks Summit San Jose 2018! Dataworks Summit San Jose is back again with the 2018 incarnation being held at San Jose, between June 17–21, 2018. The agenda is packed as usual. If you are specifically interested about the latest developments in YARN and the larger Hadoop project in general, you can use this post ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Internet of Things tends to generate large volumes of data at a great velocity. Often times this data is collected from geographically distributed sources and aggregated at a central location for data scientists to perform their magic i.e. find patterns, trends and make predictions. Let’s explore what the IoT Solution using Postgres-BDR has to offer for Data Analytics. Postgres-BDR is offered as an extension on top of PostgreSQL 10 and above. It is not a fork. Therefore, we get the power of complete set of analytic functions that PostgreSQL has to offer. In particular, I am going ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. One of the biggest trends in application development today is the use of APIs to power the backend technologies supporting a product. Increasingly, the way mobile, IoT, web applications, or internal services talk to each other and to application frontends is using some API interface.Alongside this trend of building API-powered applications is the move to a microservices application design pattern. A larger application is represented by many smaller application components, also typically communicating via API. The growth of APIs and microservices being used together is driven across all sorts of companies, from startups ... Read More