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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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Swiss energy services company uses machine learning to see the future

CIO Business Intelligence

That changed in 2017 when Swiss voters approved an energy act that would reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels by 2050. The combination of the smart meter data and weather forecast information would provide a calculated load profile in real-time, driving solar power production for the near future.

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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 Such private cloud solutions eliminate the risks of multitenancy data leakage, for example, a key CIO concern with AI. We have no choice. “We We have no choice.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 31 what amounts to $428 million a year.

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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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Climate change predictions: Anticipating and adapting to a warming world

IBM Big Data Hub

The model could potentially be used to identify conditions that raise the risks of wildfires and predict hurricanes and droughts. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts people living in Africa, Australia, North America and Europe will face health risks due to rising temperatures and heat waves.

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4 Reasons Why GRC Is a Useless Term

John Wheeler

It has been 5 years since Gartner embarked on the journey to enhance our coverage of the risk management technology marketplace. That journey included in-depth survey research and countless interactions with our end-user clients to understand their need to better manage strategic, operational and IT/cybersecurity risks.