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Perform time series forecasting using Amazon Redshift ML and Amazon Forecast

AWS Big Data

Many businesses use different software tools to analyze historical data and past patterns to forecast future demand and trends to make more accurate financial, marketing, and operational decisions. Forecasting acts as a planning tool to help enterprises prepare for the uncertainty that can occur in the future.

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Swiss energy services company uses machine learning to see the future

CIO Business Intelligence

But because electricity consumption was easy to gauge, there was no urgency for measuring current and low voltage power flows. That changed in 2017 when Swiss voters approved an energy act that would reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels by 2050. Without real-time power measurements, estimated power values were being used.

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

CIO Business Intelligence

A nation known for innovative efficiency was a failure in one key area It goes without saying that the faster and more effectively disasters can be forecasted, detected, and responded to, the better the chance of minimizing damage and saving lives. And the key to success is having data that can be analyzed for actionable insights.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. So it should come as no surprise that Google has compiled and forecast time series for a long time.

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Private cloud makes its comeback, thanks to AI

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services — which includes hosted private cloud and dedicated cloud infrastructure as a service — will hit $20.4 billion in 2024, and more than double by 2027. Just as not every application is best served by the public cloud, not every organization is as well. We have no choice.

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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

These proactive measures are made possible by evolving technologies designed to help people adapt to the effects of climate change today. 5 The Global Disaster Preparedness Center recommends policymakers and others adopt a range of measures to help their regions adapt to higher heat. Global Change Research Program, 2017.

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AI value begins with managing the C-suite conversation

CIO Business Intelligence

Every futurist and forecaster I have talked to is convinced the transformative technology of the next seven years is artificial intelligence. Executives need to have tactical conversations regarding which domains and activity areas — aka, in AI-speak, which definable problems and measurable goals — should be targeted with which ANI resources.