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The trinity of errors in financial models: An introductory analysis using TensorFlow Probability

O'Reilly on Data

An exploration of three types of errors inherent in all financial models. At Hedged Capital , an AI-first financial trading and advisory firm, we use probabilistic models to trade the financial markets. In this blog post, we explore three types of errors inherent in all financial models, with a simple example of a model in TensorFlow Probability (TFP).

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IBM earns fifth AI-related leader position for open AI infrastructure

IBM Big Data Hub

The Forrester Wave has named IBM a leader across five AI-related categories. Most recently, IBM Cloud Private for Data earned its place among vendors offering enterprise insights platforms.

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Architect Machine Learning with IoT

Paul DeBeasi

Developers with no data science experience are now able to integrate Machine Learning (ML) with IoT. As the number of IoT endpoints proliferate, the need for organizations to understand how to architect machine learning with IoT will grow rapidly. However, for this to occur, IoT architects and data scientists must overcome the challenge of having two very different disciplines collaborate closely to design an ML-powered IoT system.

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Real-time Analytics: The Tool for Efficient Consumer Acquisition and Retention.

BizAcuity

Today, there is a vast ocean of data that is being amassed every minute, every day. The biggest challenge is what we make of that data and how fast. Real-time analytics is a practice that analyzes this data as and when it comes into the system. Analysts are continuously sifting through and studying this data in order to identify a pattern or identify important insights that help can help businesses make informed decisions.

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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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Five Benefits of an Automation Framework for Data Governance

erwin

Organizations are responsible for governing more data than ever before, making a strong automation framework a necessity. But what exactly is an automation framework and why does it matter? In most companies, an incredible amount of data flows from multiple sources in a variety of formats and is constantly being moved and federated across a changing system landscape.

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Data science transformations: Learn from these clients at Think 2019

IBM Big Data Hub

If you’re a data scientist or leading a team, Think 2019 is where you’ll want to be in February to hear success stories from clients using IBM’s data science portfolio of solutions.

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Reinventing the Casinos with Customer Behaviour Analysis

BizAcuity

Technology is the pursuit for more, isn’t it? Today, across all spectrums of business, technology is being used to empower smarter and efficient solutions. At BizAcuity, we’ve identified one such domain of business that we felt could use a technological makeover. And that is what today’s blog is about – Customer Behaviour Analysis.

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Reflections on the Data Science Platform Market

Domino Data Lab

Reflections. Before we get too far into 2019, I wanted to take a brief moment to reflect on some of the changes we’ve seen in the market. In 2018 we saw the “data science platform” market rapidly crystallize into three distinct product segments. This post describes our observations about these three segments and offers advice for folks evaluating products in this space.

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The perils and promise of fast data

IBM Big Data Hub

A new Forrester Consulting study commissioned by IBM from October 2018 shows that fast data with fast analytics is an enormous, rapidly growing resource that’s not being used to its full potential.

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New Year. New Goals. New Era of Analytics. Are you ready?

DataRobot Blog

by Jen Underwood. A long time has passed since I’ve last written. Thank you to my peers that have reached out and asked what’s going on. Rapidly growing DataRobot keeps me extremely busy. Read More.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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#AskSAP 2019 Analytic Trends Webinar

Timo Elliott

Andy Bitterer and Timo Elliott talking about the top ten analytic trends for 2019. The first #AskSAP web seminar of the year was on the topic of the top trends in analytics for 2019. It was hosted by Avery Horzewski and featured SAP Analytic Evangelist Andy Bitterer and myself chatting about our top ten favorite themes for this year in the area of business intelligence, analytics, data platforms, big data, and artificial intelligence.

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Model Interpretability with TCAV (Testing with Concept Activation Vectors)

Domino Data Lab

This Domino Data Science Field Note provides very distilled insights and excerpts from Been Kim ’s recent MLConf 2018 talk and research about Testing with Concept Activation Vectors (TCAV), an interpretability method that allows researchers to understand and quantitatively measure the high-level concepts their neural network models are using for prediction, “ even if the concept was not part of the training “ If interested in additional insights not provided in this blog post, please refe

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Survive GDPR? Why you should get ahead of CCPA

IBM Big Data Hub

If you’re an IT professional managing data, it’s time to start planning for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, also known as CCPA. The new guidelines will go into effect on January 1, 2020.

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Using Data to Answer the Key Challenge to Enterprise Reinforcement Learning

Teradata

Applying deep reinforcement learning to real world problems has the potential to revolutionize how businesses tackle many of their core business challenges.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Inventory optimization headache and how to approach it with data science

ScienceSoft

Is inventory optimization still your headache? Here, we describe three pills you can take - simple math, statistics and machine or namely deep learning - and show why data science can be your #1 painkiller.

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How Digital Realty Weathers Acquisitions with No Impact on Daily Operations

Data Virtualization

Mergers and acquisitions are a fact of life, and they often take a toll on everyday business; people, real estate, processes, and systems need to be properly integrated before the acquiring company and the acquired company can act as one. The post How Digital Realty Weathers Acquisitions with No Impact on Daily Operations appeared first on Data Virtualization and Modern Data Management.

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Voice of the Client: How Experian is using AI to transform the business

IBM Big Data Hub

Every company has its own set of problems that it attempts to solve. In our case, we needed a more efficient and accurate way to identify the relationships between businesses on which we maintain data.

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Advanced Analytics Vendor with ETL for Business Users!

Smarten

A Data and Analytics Platform to Support Business Users and Data Scientists! A cutting-edge advanced analytics vendor takes an innovative approach to the data and analytics platform by focusing on Technology Leadership, Team Environment and a Customer and Partner Focus. A modern analytics platform should include predictive analytics for business users with cutting-edge business intelligence and data discovery tools.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Highlights of our final release of Version 18

Paris Technologies

With the next big release of PowerOLAP® Version 20 expected for Q3, now is the best time to upgrade to Version 18, if you haven’t already done so. For one, the transition to Version 20 will be that much easier. And, right now, you can take advantage of some great features in advance of Version 20’s official release. The two biggest highlights of this Version 18 upgrade are the new Initiators and […].

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Using Data to Answer the Key Challenge to Enterprise Reinforcement Learning

Teradata

Applying deep reinforcement learning to real world problems has the potential to revolutionize how businesses tackle many of their core business challenges.

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The Nutanix Approach to Federal IT – Part II

Nutanix

In Part I of this blog, we talked about “the interesting times we live in” regarding the state of Federal IT. The problem is – managing and delivering IT shouldn’t be an adventure.

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Citizen Data Scientists and Augmented Analytics!

Smarten

Learning for Citizen Data Scientists and Data Literacy Across the Enterprise! So you want to transform your business users and encourage learning for Citizen Data Scientists to enable data literacy across your enterprise? If your business is like most, your average business user doesn’t know (or need to know) the details of sophisticated algorithms and analytical techniques.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Top 10 Analytics Trends for 2019

Timo Elliott

2019 is the year that analytics technology starts delivering what users have been dreaming about for over forty years — easy, natural access to reliable business information. 1. Machine learning everywhere. We’ve reached the third great wave of analytics, after semantic-layer business intelligence platforms in the 90s and data discovery in the 2000s.

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How Painful is it (Really) to Switch Cloud Providers?

Teradata

Ron Luebke discusses the pains of switching cloud providers.

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What I Learned From Retailers at NRF 2019

Nutanix

We recently concluded a whirlwind three days at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference in New York, where we had great conversations with retailers and suppliers of all types.

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Usage-Driven Groupings of Data Science and Machine Learning Programming Languages

Business Over Broadway

Analysis of usage patterns of 16 data science programming languages by over 18,000 data professionals showed that programming languages can be grouped into a smaller set (specifically, 5 groupings). That is, some programming languages tend to be used together apart from other programming languages. A few of the different groupings of languages reflect specific types of applications or specific roles that data professionals could support, including analytics, general-purpose, and front-end effort

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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Big Data Fabric Weaves Together Automation, Scalability, and Intelligence

Cloudera

Today’s data landscape is characterized by exponentially increasing volumes of data, comprising a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data types originating from an expanding number of disparate data sources located on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. In conjunction with the evolving data ecosystem are demands by business for reliable, trustworthy, up-to-date data to enable real-time actionable insights.

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How Painful is it (Really) to Switch Cloud Providers?

Teradata

Ron Luebke discusses the pains of switching cloud providers.

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Unveiling Cloud Cost Anomaly Detection from Xi Beam

Nutanix

Cloud cost anomaly detection is a vital tool in keeping your cloud costs under control. To put it in perspective, balancing your own budget isn’t always easy – even if you’re the most frugal person you know.

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My SAP Radio 2019 Prediction: A Golden Age for Human Intelligence

Timo Elliott

I was honored yesterday to be one of the panelists in one of a series of SAP Radio 2019 prediction shows, hosted by Bonnie D. Graham. You can catch a recording of the session Voice America site or below. . [link]. I’m on at 21′ in — here’s a rough transcript of what I talked about: “My prediction for 2019 is that we’re at the start of a new golden age for human intelligence. .

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.