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

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017, the university created its Education and Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction and Redesign that focuses on disaster relief – including disaster medicine, prevention education, and reconstruction design. So far, the solution has increased details about disaster-response risk by 40% over traditional methods.

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National Grid’s energy transformation is fueled by IT

CIO Business Intelligence

That’s what some people asked of Adriana “Andi” Karaboutis, the former CIO of Dell who left the computer giant and was named National Grid’s global chief information and digital officer in 2017. Her answer? She gets to change the world.

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The Journey to Understanding your Insurance Customers

Cloudera

A 2017 PWC survey of over 100 global insurance company CEOs revealed that the number one objective of these CEOs was to “get closer to their customers and to better understand their evolving needs.” The information transparency means that competition for a customer’s loyalty is fiercer than ever.

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Internet of Things in Healthcare – Three Examples of How IoT is Ushering in Advanced Healthcare

Cloudera

Most of us have seen the news stories and forecasts about the Internet of Things (IoT) and what a vast market and field of opportunity it will be. Data is sent to a central hub in the cloud where evidence-based algorithms can effectively predict which patients are at risk. 2] Wood KA, Angus DC. PharmacoEconomics.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV. Adrian Weller (2017-07-29). “ That’s a risk in case, say, legislators – who don’t understand the nuances of machine learning – attempt to define a single meaning of the word interpret. Challenges for Transparency ”. Riccardo Guidotti, et al.

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Topics to watch at the Strata Data Conference in New York 2019

O'Reilly on Data

Our call for speakers for Strata NY 2019 solicited contributions on the themes of data science and ML; data engineering and architecture; streaming and the Internet of Things (IoT); business analytics and data visualization; and automation, security, and data privacy. It’s up two places from 2017 and up six places from 2016. (A

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Cloudera + Hortonworks, from the Edge to AI

Cloudera

The opportunity has only grown with the advent of practical Internet of Things applications. In the data center and in the cloud, there’s a proliferation of players, often building on technology we’ve created or contributed to, battling for share. Forward-Looking Statements.