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Glossary of Digital Terminology for Career Relevance

Rocket-Powered Data Science

is also sometimes referred to as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) or Smart Manufacturing, because it joins physical production and operations with smart digital technology, Machine Learning, and Big Data to create a more holistic and better connected ecosystem for companies that focus on manufacturing and supply chain management.

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8 data strategy mistakes to avoid

CIO Business Intelligence

Data silos result in inconsistencies and operational inefficiencies, says John Williams, executive director of enterprise data and advanced analytics at RaceTrac, an operator of convenience stores.

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Differentiating Between Data Lakes and Data Warehouses

Smart Data Collective

We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes. Both data warehouses and data lakes are used when storing big data. Many people are confused about these two, but the only similarity between them is the high-level principle of data storing.

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Text by itself doesn’t have much structure to begin with, but when you’ve got a pile of text written by hundreds or thousands of employees over dozens of years, then whatever structure there is might be even weaker. Even structured data is often unstructured.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Make Sense of IoT Data

BizAcuity

There is a coherent overlap between the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence. IoT is basically an exchange of data or information in a connected or interconnected environment. Data is only useful when it is actionable for which it needs to be supplemented with context and creativity. Future of IoT is AI.

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Gain insights from historical location data using Amazon Location Service and AWS analytics services

AWS Big Data

The solution consists of the following interfaces: IoT or mobile application – A mobile application or an Internet of Things (IoT) device allows the tracking of a company vehicle while it is in use and transmits its current location securely to the data ingestion layer in AWS. The ingestion approach is not in scope of this post.

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Transforming Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

Sisense

Looking at the diagram, we see that Business Intelligence (BI) is a collection of analytical methods applied to big data to surface actionable intelligence by identifying patterns in voluminous data. As we move from right to left in the diagram, from big data to BI, we notice that unstructured data transforms into structured data.