by BDW Editor on September 25, 2018 This blog post is part of the Big Data Week Speaker interviews series. We sat down with Alteryx’s Director of Product Strategy, Dr. Nick Jewell, and discussed the importance and value of data analytics and the impact it brings upon organisations. Nick will speak at the upcoming Big […]
Bringing unprecedented reliability and performance to cloud data lakes By Cihan Biyikoglu and Singh Garewal Posted in COMPANY BLOG September 24, 2018 Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Apache SparkTM-based cloud service and Microsoft Azure. The integrated service provides the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the […]
For many reasons, several of which we’ll discuss here, a patient’s full understanding of, and engagement with, their health care experiences are vital for a positive outcome. And today, we have more options than ever for achieving higher levels of interest, patient engagement, and “buy-in” from health care customers. These include data-rich wearables, telemedicine for […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) for business continues to grow like mad. In fact, estimates put the growth in B2B spending on IoT at $267 billion by 2020. But that’s the big picture part of the story. What interests me is a secondary statistic that 50% of IoT spending will be driven by utilities, discrete […]
The first robots predate the term “big data” by over 30 years. However, data has been integral to the development of robotics for many years, even though the concept of big data is fairly new. Big data will continue to play a vital role in shaping this slowly evolving field. Robotic process automation is the […]
In part 2 of our series on MLflow blogs, we demonstrated how to use MLflow to track experiment results for a Keras network model using binary classification. We classified reviews from an IMDB dataset as positive or negative. And we created one baseline model and two experiments. For each model, we tracked its respective training […]
We have had the luxury of speaking with numerous experts on the connection between big data and marketing. As new fields of marketing emerge, the role of big data will be more important than ever. Big data has changed the world, and SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the biggest changes in marketing and […]
Packt, the leading UK provider of technology/coding books and courses, conducted a survey in August 2018 to know what AI actually means to people in software. Who’s using it? What are they doing with it and how it will impact them in the present and future? The findings here are based on responses from 2,800+ […]
If you are thinking AI is a big thing for small businesses, then think again. Sure enough, IT powerhouses like Amazon and USP are relying on AI robots to enhance employee experience. But then, the fact is, even start-ups are readily experimenting with AI technologies, big-time. For instance, there’s a pizza start-up in Mountain View, […]
The Internet of Things is slowly coming into its own. Statista notes that by 2020, there will be over thirty billion connected devices on the IoT, underscoring the importance of this technology. Combining the IoT with a cloud platform (such as Azure) provides a unique opportunity for a company to explore innovative methods of meeting […]