Big Data

How to Prepare Yourself For a Career in Big Data

Revenues for big data and business analytics is expected to be more than $203 billion by 2020 according to IDC – and this means more jobs in these …

You’re not an AI company until you’re a full-stack company

From Siri and Alexa becoming household names to Apple recently announcing its new HomePod smart speaker, artificial intelligence finally seems to have made the jump from the world of futuristic science fiction straight into our own homes. The variety of tasks that AI creations are taking on is …

How Virtual Reality Will Completely Revolutionize Big Data Visualization

Kindly Share:<p>Data Visualization is the most imperative phase of Big data Analytics. In case you’re not revealing significant patterns in your …

InFluxData Teams With IBM And RedHat To Simplify Analyzing The IOT Data Deluge

Almost every aspect of the technology IT stack is experiencing some form of change. Mobile, IoT and the rise of DevOps have disrupted traditional enterprise architecture and app development methods. Cloud computing, software-defined networks (SDNs), and network function virtualization (NFV) have …

Performance Update: When Apache ORC Met Apache Spark

Apache Spark 1.4 introduced support for Apache ORC. However, initially it did not take advantage of the full power of ORC. For instance, it was slow because ORC vectorization was not used and push-down predicate wa s also not supported on DATE types. Recently the Apache Spark community has started …

Cloud Storage: A Logistical Nightmare Turned Dream Come True

Cloud storage takes many forms and is used in many different ways. Dropbox for example is the most popular provider of cloud storage and is used by …

DaVinci Resolve Tutorial Part 2: Projects & Databases

By Andrew Devis (doodleNEWS)<p>Continuing with our <b>DaVinci Resolve Tutorial</b>, we will discuss Projects and Databases. When you have installed and opened …

Businesses must map a data taxonomy for edge-related systems

<i>In between meeting with customers, Crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as</i> …

AI and IoT: Taking Data Insight to Action

Recent Gartner estimations lead us to believe that up to 20 billion connected things will be in use by 2020. Data is the oil of our century — but …

Companies are collecting a mountain of data. What should they do with it?

It’s called the information age for a reason.<p>From our tweets and status updates to our Yelp reviews and Amazon product ratings, the internet-connected portion of the human race generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of computer data every single day. That’s 2.5 million one-terabyte hard drives filled …

5 pitfalls of self-service BI

Over the past several years, businesses have increasingly adopted self-service business intelligence (BI). In its November 2016 “Self-Service BI …

distinct values

Serendipitous connections happen when data exists in an interlinked network.<p>Just as the World Wide Web connects <i>documents</i>, which contain information …

The 5 Skills You Need In Your Data Team | Articles | Chief Data Officer

The idea of the single rockstar data scientist who can do everything is now debunked. If every person who finished university with a relevant course …

You're Wasting Your Time Analyzing the Wrong Data

Everything about your business success and strategic direction can be found within the data you have available, thanks to the various tools and …

Getting Started with Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack on Microsoft Azure

As cloud adoption grows, we’re keeping pace at Elastic, developing integrations and making it easier to use our software wherever you are. These …

Your Email Marketing Data in 2018

As we hit the final quarter of the calendar year, it’s time to start preparing for what next year will throw at us. There are always external factors …

Industry 4.0: Here are the questions to ask before implementing predictive maintenance in connected manufacturing framework

In the quest for “<b>Industry 4.0</b>”, “Smart Manufacturing” and “Connected Manufacturing” many manufacturers have shortlisted predictive maintenance as …

Bank of America Files Two Blockchain-Related Patent Applications

On October 12, Bank of America filed two patent applications, 20170293503 and 20170295232, for blockchain-based solutions to challenges that surround …

This is how social media data can help NGOs

Stefaan Verhulst is the chief research and development officer, and Andrew Young is the knowledge director at the Governance Laboratory at New York University. Together, they have written a recent report on the role that social media data can play in the nonprofit sector. I asked them a series of …

BI Will Change the Role of IT as We Know It

IT's role within an organization has always been a critical one, but the advancement of business intelligence and data analytics will make IT …

Why the fight over IoT data is just getting started

As the social and financial buzz around the IoT continues to grow, many savvy executives and eager entrepreneurs alike are chasing IoT investment …

Big data nears boom in Philippines: research firm

The Philippines is nearing a big data "boom" as more companies look to data analytics, with telecommunication companies and banks leading the way, …

Intel Capital invests $60M in 15 big data startups, bringing total 2017 investments to $566M

Is Deterministic Data Better Than Probabilistic Data? Maybe Not

When you consider the primary appeal of digital marketing -- being able to measure, in real time, how your advertising is performing -- using …

Why better energy data equals better lives – Now more than ever

Better Data, Better Lives.<p>That was the theme of the second World Statistics Day celebrated two years ago on October 20th, 2015. The holiday was …

Tonight: Shape the future of New York City's open data at Carto

New York City is widely recognized as a leader in the open data movement among local governments. The city now makes more than 1,600 data sets …

Podcast | Dracore CEO Chantelle Fraser on SA's big data leak

Dracore CEO Chantelle Fraser<p><b>In this special edition</b> of the TechCentral podcast, Duncan McLeod sits down with Dracore Data Sciences CEO Chantelle …

Diversity in technology 2017: Ray Coyle, UK CEO, Auticon

Components of AI, such as machine and deep learning, will be part and parcel of every enterprise. When devising a machine ...<p>The Kaspersky news has …

Changing the world through data science

Changing the world with data science<p>October 20, 2017 | By Kenji Takeda, Director, Azure for Research<p>By <i>Kenji Takeda</i><i>, Director, Azure for Research</i><p>Alan …

Cisco snaps up streaming-data startup Perspica

Cisco today announced plans to acquire San Jose-based startup Perspica, a company that specializes in using machine learning to analyze streams of …