Fri.Apr 10, 2020

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5 Artificial Intelligence Trends Changing The eCommerce Industry

Smart Data Collective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the way that eCommerce companies do business. AI is being implemented in systems across the eCommerce sector. From generating leads to gathering information, AI has improved multiple facets of the industry. Algorithmic bots have revolutionized customer facing services. Automated systems are the driving force behind improvements in back-end eCommerce software. eCommerce AI is a data-driven trend that allows companies to manage and analyze consumer informat

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Using Small Datasets to Build Models

DataRobot

The world is going through extremely turbulent times. With the ongoing disruption of our lives, communities, and businesses from the COVID-19 pandemic, predictions from existing machine learning models trained prior to the pandemic become less reliable. There is plenty of historical data, but historical examples from before the pandemic may not provide the relevant examples needed to train a model that is useful today.

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New DoE Program Drives Demand For Machine Learning Programmers

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is leading to numerous changes in the energy industry. The Department of Energy recently announced that it is taking steps to accelerate the integration of machine learning technology in energy research and development. The head of the Department of Energy announced that they will be investing $30 million in artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

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What's New in NLP: Transformers, BERT, and New Use Cases

Dataiku

The last couple of years have been anything but boring in the field of natural language processing , or NLP. With landmark breakthroughs in NLP architecture such as the attention mechanisms , a new generation of NLP models — the so-called Transformers — has been born (no, not the Michael Bay kind).

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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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4 Key Competitive Advantages of Big Data in Business

Smart Data Collective

90% of all data in the world has been generated in the last two years. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that a lot of companies are struggling with structuring and making sense of the data that they have, which causes various organizational issues, as well as limits the potential growth. That’s why big data companies that can help use that data are in such high demand.

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How to Aggregate Global Data from the Coronavirus Outbreak

Sisense

Blog. As COVID-19 continues to spread, healthcare groups and companies of all kinds are under pressure to provide care in the face of increasing demand. Healthy Data is your window into how data is helping these organizations address this crisis. As the rapid spread of COVID-19 continues, data managers around the world are pulling together a wide variety of global data sources to inform governments, the private sector, and the public with the latest on the spread of this disease.

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IBM Garage fuels Mueller Inc's AI journey with design thinking

IBM Big Data Hub

In today’s environment, seasoned companies who continue to weather the tests of time suddenly demand greater attention. How do they retain their grit and withstand adversity, whether from the COVID-19 pandemic or digital disruption? How much do values play out in their approach to customers, their ability to embrace new technology, or adopt a new method?

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R vs Python: What’s the Best Language for Natural Language Processing?

Sisense

Blog. In Talking Data , we delve into the rapidly evolving worlds of Natural Language Processing and Generation. Text data is proliferating at a staggering rate, and only advanced coding languages like Python and R will be able to pull insights out of these datasets at scale. One of the most-asked questions from aspiring data scientists is: “What is the best language for data science?

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The Insights Beat: Spring Has Sprung — Get Your Data And Analytics Tools In Order

Srividya Sridharan

The time of year has finally arrived when the sun lingers on the horizon longer and longer, life creeps back into the trees, and weather forecasts look much more favorable. But this normally welcome period of seasonal change coincides with unprecedented change in how we are forced to conduct business. In the midst of the […].

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Insight Launches New Post-Program Experience Funded via Income Share Agreement

Insight

Insight is a community of over 3,000 data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, consensus, DevOps, and security engineers who have completed an Insight Fellows Program and are now members of our professional network. They work at over 700 companies across North America, with many of them working as heads of their teams. In 2019, over 1,000 Insight Fellows completed one of our 7 programs across 6 locations & remote.

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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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Forget Complex ETL Skills. Self-Serve Data Prep is Here!

Smarten

What is Self-Service Data Preparation & Can it Provide Actual Business Results? Let’s cut to the chase! Results are everything and when you think of a task like preparing data for analytics, that task does not seem to have a direct connection to results. Or does it? Renowned technology research and analysis organization, Gartner, predicts that data and analytics organizations that provide agile, curated internal and external datasets for a range of content authors will realize twice the busi

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Our Top 20 Most-Read Data and Analytics Research Last Week (to Apr 5)

Andrew White

Click here for an interactive PDF to access the notes directly on gartner.com: Download. Svetlana Sicular’s new Artificial Intelligence Maturity Model is only three weeks old and has just become our most read piece of research (last week) excluding branded notes such as Magic Quadrants. Enjoy!

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The Insights Beat: Spring Has Sprung — Get Your Data And Analytics Tools In Order

Srividya Sridharan

The time of year has finally arrived when the sun lingers on the horizon longer and longer, life creeps back into the trees, and weather forecasts look much more favorable. But this normally welcome period of seasonal change coincides with unprecedented change in how we are forced to conduct business. In the midst of the […].

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HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Nutanix

HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Machine Learning Offers New Opportunities with the Evolution of Branding Signatures

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has been one of the most disruptive new technologies to affect the marketing profession in the last 50 years. One study found that 53% of marketers plan to use machine learning in some capacity. At Smart Data Collective, we have discussed many of the ways that AI and machine learning have changed the face of performance marketing.

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HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Nutanix

HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.

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5 Ways Application Virtualization Can Meet the Demands of Remote Workers

CDW Research Hub

Even before the current pandemic, working remotely was becoming increasingly popular. According to Global Workplace Analytics , 20 – 25% of the workforce was telecommuting at least some of the time, and forecasters predicted that percentage would grow. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced massive numbers of individuals to work remotely. For many, this has been a challenge because either they never had to perform their roles in a virtual environment, or they did not have the option to bring their wo

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HCI Breaks Through Traditional Barriers to Ensuring Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Nutanix

HCI ushered in a new model for building IT solutions, causing a dramatic shift in the way companies are thinking about supporting business critical operations, both live and in the case of disaster.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.