O'Reilly on Data

JANUARY 17, 2019

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Andrew Burt on the need to modernize data protection tools and strategies. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Andrew Burt , chief privacy officer and legal engineer at Immuta , a company building data management tools tuned for data science. Burt and cybersecurity pioneer Daniel Geer recently released a must-read white paper (“Flat Light”) that provides a great framework for how to think about information security in the age of big data and AI.

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Business Over Broadway

JANUARY 13, 2019

The practice of data science requires the use of analytics tools, technologies and programming languages to help data professionals extract insights and value from data. A recent survey of nearly 24,000 data professionals by Kaggle revealed that Python, SQL and R are the most popular programming languages. The most popular, by far, was Python (83% used).

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Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 14, 2019

This blog post provides insights on how to use the SHAP and LIME Python libraries in practice and how to interpret their output, helping readers prepare to produce model explanations in their own work. Introduction. Part 1 of this blog post provides a brief technical introduction to the SHAP and LIME Python libraries, including code and output to highlight a few pros and cons of each library.

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MLWhiz

JANUARY 16, 2019

Recently, I started up with an NLP competition on Kaggle called Quora Question insincerity challenge. It is an NLP Challenge on text classification and as the problem has become more clear after working through the competition as well as by going through the invaluable kernels put up by the kaggle experts, I thought of sharing the knowledge. Since we have a large amount of material to cover, I am splitting this post into a series of posts.

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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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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s that time of the year to step back, evaluate what worked, what did not, and what to do differently to make things better personally and professionally. The same applies to businesses.

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Jet Global

JANUARY 17, 2019

In today’s data-driven world, business intelligence (BI) and analytics play a huge role in better understanding your customers, improving your operations, and making actionable business decisions. While there’s no doubt about the value of implementing a BI solution, many Dynamics ERP customers face the same data challenges with the quality and credibility of their data before a project even begins.

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erwin

JANUARY 17, 2019

Data governance is more important to the enterprise than ever before. It ensures everyone in the organization can discover and analyze high-quality data to quickly deliver business value. It assists in successfully meeting increasingly strict compliance requirements, such as those in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). And it provides a clear gauge on business performance.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2019

With THINK 2019 just around the corner, 12 through 15 February, there’s no better time to discover the variety of hybrid data management solutions and strategies, along with how each can help uncover actionable insights.

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Insight

JANUARY 16, 2019

Insight and Skills Fund partner to lower the barrier to thriving careers In addition to providing completely tuition-free programs, need-based scholarships, and cloud computing resources, the Insight Fellowship Program is now offering cost-of-living loans to Fellows in all of our programs through a partnership with Skills Fund. These loans are offered through Skills Fund’s honest and upfront financing, and are financially backed by Insight to support our Fellows during their career transition.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 16, 2019

SAP has announced its intention to acquire Qualtrics , a global pioneer in the area of experience management (XM) software. Experience management is the process of monitoring every interaction people experience with a company in order to discover opportunities for improvement. For decades, SAP has been the leader in business applications that generate and leverage operational data (O-data) — hard numbers like costs, accounting, and sales — to inform their business decisions.

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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.

Management

Business Over Broadway

JANUARY 17, 2019

Click image to download the free white paper, 10 Loyalty Questions for Your Next Customer Survey. Customer loyalty, a leading indicator of business growth, refers to the extent to which customers feel positively about and engage in positive behaviors (e.g., buy, recommend, buy different) toward a company or brand. Successful companies have customers who recommend them, stay with them and buy more from them compared to less successful companies.

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Measurement Metrics IT Management 46

IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 16, 2019

Enterprise leaders understand the importance of integrating AI. However, there's a big difference between experimenting with AI & true enterprise-grade integration.

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Mark Raskino

JANUARY 15, 2019

I recently published a Gartner research note of suggested technology related ‘resolutions’ for chief executives (paywall). It’s a list of pointers to things they can consider doing, to help improve their company’s digital business progress. 2019 looks like it might be a turning point year that offers an opportunity for the organisation to pause for breath and refocus its transformation efforts.

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Jedox

JANUARY 16, 2019

I always enjoy addressing the question, “What do you think will be the biggest/most important/most impactful trends in FP&A of the coming year”? It gives me a chance to pause and review all the places I’ve been, all the CFOs I spoken with, and all the companies I’ve worked with over the past twelve months, to refine and distill what I believe are the top technological trends for financial planning & analysis in 2019.

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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.

Testing

Smarten

JANUARY 17, 2019

The impact of natural language processing (NLP) on the productivity and decision quality within an organization cannot be overstated. As simplified search analytics expands into all corners of the enterprise, the business can expect business users to embrace advanced analytics and, in so doing, to become more of an asset to the organization. The Gartner report entitled, ‘Augmented Analytics Is the Future of Data and Analytics, published on October 31, 2018, includes the following strategic assum

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 14, 2019

Join the on-demand webinar, Accelerating AI Innovation with Data Virtualization to hear directly from IBM and Intel on how you can benefit from IBM Cloud Private for Data.

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Data Virtualization

JANUARY 16, 2019

Data are the eyes with which we look at reality. They are the means – not the only one – with which every company can aspire to have full awareness of itself and of the context in which it operates. The post Epistemology of Data Virtualization appeared first on Data Virtualization and Modern Data Management.

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3AG Systems

JANUARY 16, 2019

Questions about this MS BI visual? Book an in-person call with our team now. This Power BI custom visual is designed for easily comparing time series data. It is built for reporting actual, forecast, planned, and previous year data and allows users to quickly identify when a series deviates from its baseline. Influenced by IBCS , this Power BI dashboard applied information density principles including the sparing use of colors.

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Smarten

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Can I Leverage Assisted Predictive Modeling to Benefit My Business? Some people hear the term ‘assisted predictive modeling’ and their eyes cross. They immediately presume that we are talking about something complex and certainly NOT for them. Nothing could be further from the truth. This seemingly complex term actually describes a technique that is designed to be suitable for business users with average technical skills and, with these tools, the average user can enter the age of advanced a

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BI-Survey

JANUARY 15, 2019

S ecurity and legal issues are the biggest challenges for large and mid-size organizations implementing cloud BI since they face more regulatory and investor scrutiny than smaller companies. The biggest challenges for small companies are security and politics. Challenges when implementing cloud BI, by company size (n=163). Companies that have not yet implemented cloud BI cite security and legal issues as the top reasons for holding out, especially large companies and mid-size companies.

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Teradata

JANUARY 14, 2019

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 18, 2019

Enterprises turn to end-user computing, and VDI in particular, to secure an array of benefits, including lower administrative overhead, increased employee productivity, and costs savings.

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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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3AG Systems

JANUARY 14, 2019

BELLEVUE, Wash. & BURNABY, British Columbia – January 14, 2019 – TimeXtender , a recognized global software company enabling instant access to any type of data in the organization to support advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced a partnership with 3AG Systems , a company that specializes in helping businesses make better decisions through data analytics.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 14, 2019

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the leading health information and technology conference, bringing together 45,000+ healthcare professionals from 90+ countries for the education, innovation, and collaboration to transform the healthcare industry is taking place in Orlando, Florida.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 18, 2019

By aligning the right providers with your desired business outcomes, cloud computing can be a fantastic driver of business growth and end-user satisfaction.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 15, 2019

There’s an old proverb (and possibly a curse), to wit: “May you live in interesting times.” Regarding Federal IT, we certainly do live in interesting times.

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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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Nutanix

JANUARY 16, 2019

The arrival of cloud computing has provided organizations with reliable and secure computing capacity delivered with ease – just as everyday utilities are.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 15, 2019

If you’ve been employed in a formal engagement of some kind, it’s likely that you’re familiar with the idea of regulatory compliance.

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