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Conversational Computing and More News from Oracle Analytics Summit 2019

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

The Oracle Analytics Summit 2019 was the inaugural user event for Oracle Analytics customers, and they also broadcast the video for thousands of others. You can watch the keynote at [link]. Executives talked about some big organizational changes, including Bruno Aziza joining last year to lead the analytics organization. This event marked a transition and "a new beginning" for the Oracle Analytics portfolio, as the company announced three new analytics products.

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Many Heads Are Better Than One: The Case For Ensemble Learning

KDnuggets

While ensembling techniques are notoriously hard to set up, operate, and explain, with the latest modeling, explainability and monitoring tools, they can produce more accurate and stable predictions. And better predictions can be better for business.

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The Role of Big Data In The Maintenance Industry

Smart Data Collective

As industry buzzwords, “Big Data” is one of those phrases that has become seemingly ubiquitous. Everyone wants to be using big data to better their operation. The maintenance department is no exception to this trend. Accordingly, maintenance teams are beginning to embrace the use of big data and analytics to improve performance. In emphasizing the use of “big data”, maintenance can establish predictive maintenance programs, which reduce downtime and save on maintenance costs.

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The State of Transfer Learning in NLP

KDnuggets

This post expands on the NAACL 2019 tutorial on Transfer Learning in NLP organized by Matthew Peters, Swabha Swayamdipta, Thomas Wolf, and Sebastian Ruder. This post highlights key insights and takeaways and provides updates based on recent work.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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How Big Data Is Transforming Social Media Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Big Data is among one of the most impressive tech advancements that have hit the marketing world in recent memory. While it has been tossed around as a buzzword in certain circles, Big Data is so much more than just a phrase. For a definition , Oracle recommends Gartner’s 2001 description of Big Data, which describes it as data containing a greater variety, getting to the source in increasing volume and at ever-higher velocity.

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Version Control for Data Science: Tracking Machine Learning Models and Datasets

KDnuggets

I am a Git god, why do I need another version control system for Machine Learning Projects?

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3 ways a data catalog can help optimize your business

IBM Big Data Hub

The best data catalogs can automate the process to collect, classify and profile data to ensure the highest standards of quality. Here are three popular use cases detailing why companies are moving towards IBM’s Watson Knowledge Catalog.

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Combining Technology & Creativity for a new Digital Renaissance

Timo Elliott

A quick 13-minute presentation from last year’s Mentes Brillantes in Madrid, talking about the digital enterprise revolution, using real-world examples of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and analytics, and talking about the importance of creativity and new business models. I was speaking slowly to try and make it easy to follow (I was the only presenter who didn’t do it in Spanish).

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Infrastructure as Code for the ICON Blockchain

Insight

Hello ICON Blockchain! Insight Data Science here to starting off a long series of medium articles describing our technical contributions… Continue reading on Insight Fellows Program ».

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3 Cybersecurity Trends From Black Hat 2019 for Your 2020 Security Strategy

CDW Research Hub

Experts presented, vendors exhibited, and decision-makers gathered. The 22nd Black Hat conference drew over 20,000 people in the Information Security industry to Las Vegas in early August. People in the InfoSec industry worldwide view this conference as the one to attend for skill-building, hearing the latest research, learning about evolutions in security, and seeing the latest products and solutions.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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How to Optimize Hospital Staffing and Improve Patient Care with AI

Dataiku

Global healthcare today is facing a clinician shortage crisis. Projections indicate that by 2030 demand for health workers will rise to 80 million , but the World Health Organization estimates there will be a worldwide shortage of around 18 million , more than one in five of the people we will need.