Tag: Trends

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Chris Gray of Gray Research is a longtime contributor to the practice of Sales and Operations Planning. He is author of several books on S&OP, software selection, and other supply chain related areas, including Sales and Operations Planning Standard System (2007). In 2006 he co-authored Sales & Operations Planning – Best Practices with John Dougherty. I first met Chris last October, when he spoke on “Worst Practices in Sales & Operations Planning” at the 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference. In the Summer 2017 issue of Foresight, Chris and John continue that theme with “Misconceptions, Missteps, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Big Data News. Author: Sujain Thomas. IT networks are now a thriving hive of connections and data points. It has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Along with the network, the threats and sophistication of the threats have increased as well. Things have ceased to be black and white. There are some moral and practical gray zones that people cover every day to use, produce and extract relevant data. The next section of Statistics is a compilation of studies from different verified sources including the 2016 Cost of Cybercrime Study as a global ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Big Data News. Author: Paul Black. There is an estimated 50 Petabytes of data in the health care realm, predicted to grow to 25,000 Petabytes by 2020, reported by a new info-graphic from Oracle. From this astonishing data report, we can see that the healthcare industry is generating a huge amount of data, driven by clinical records, medical care and compliance & regulatory requirements. Luckily, big data analytic application has been widely used in the health care industry to extract insights from the wealth of data. Being able to accurately identify the association, trends and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Alistair Croll. Winners. (source: Pixabay) Check out the AI-related sessions coming up at the Strata Data Conference in New York, September 25-28, 2017. Every five years, we invent a new technology that, when sprinkled atop existing business problems, acts as a panacea for managers. In the ‘90s it was the Web, followed quickly by SaaS, mobility, clouds, data, and now AI. But there's a bigger underlying pattern. Web and SaaS gave us interfaces anyone could use. Mobility made them ubiquitous, taking us away from the workday—we check our phones dozens of times a day, ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Data Geek. From the author of the bestsellers, Data Scientist and Julia for Data Science, this book covers four foundational areas of data science. The first area is the data science pipeline including methodologies and the data scientist's toolbox. The second are essential practices needed in understanding the data including questions and hypotheses. The third are pitfalls to avoid in the data science process. The fourth is an awareness of future trends and how modern technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) fit into the data science framework.  The following chapters cover these four foundational areas: ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. The rise of mobile technology has created a multitude of new ways for businesses to interact with customers. Another defining feature of the digital age is the development of many powerful big data analytics tools. These two components — customer data and the tools to understand the story it tells — can provide a game-changing competitive advantage. Big data can provide another critical value to today’s small businesses. The technological advances of the digital age have also presented new risks, most notably cyberattacks. As the problem of ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jaco Rossouw. Here's a blog post covering some of the most frequently asked questions we get on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, or Cognitive Computing. We start off with "What is Machine Learing?" and finish off with addressing some of the fears and misconceptions of Artificial Intelligence. So, what is machine learning? A simple search on Google for the answer will yield many definitions for it that leave most non-analytical people confused and entering more "What is..." statements into Google. So, I asked our Head of Marketing to try his hand at defining Machine Learning in the most ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: George Vyshnya. Data Science and DevOps Convergence The primary mission of DevOps is to help the teams to resolve various Tech Ops infrastructure, tools and pipeline issues. At the other hand, as mentioned in the conceptual review by Forbes in November 2016, the industrial analytics is no more going to be driven by data scientists alone. It requires an investment in DevOps skills, practices and supporting technology to move analytics out of the lab and into the business. There are even voices calling Data Scientists to concentrate on agile methodology and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Human resources play the key role in company development. However, this profession is not only about interviews and resumes anymore. In a world filled with all sorts of information, HR teams are finding new ways to improve their results and efficiency. This is possible mostly due to big data analytics, an industry that is going to generate more than $200 billion of revenues in 2020. But what’s the secret here and how come data is so crucial for strategic HR decisions? Keep reading to find out more ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI solution template for Azure Activity Logs. This template provides analytics on top of your Activity Log in the Azure Portal. Gain insight into the activities performed by various resources and people in your subscription. Get started with historical analysis on your last 90 days of Activity Log data, and let an Azure SQL database accumulate these historical events in addition to incoming events. Getting Started The first part of our experience is an installer that guides you ... Read More