Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. Mathematical optimization has become a problem-solving technology that can be used to automatically generate solutions to business problems. It helps in selecting the best business choices possible. One basic feature of mathematical optimization is the recognition that decisions, and their resulting actions, have far reaching implications […]
Why Marketers Should Understand AI
Click to learn more about author Ingrid Burton. Marketers today have more data available to them than ever before. Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to that data is necessary to driving marketing effectiveness in today’s competitive digital world. When properly harnessed, AI provides insights that help achieve lower customer acquisition costs, greater lifetime spending per customer […]
Driving an Organizational Culture Shift to Realize the Potential of AI in Life Sciences
Click to learn more about author Updesh Dosanjh. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are present in nearly every industry today. However, not all industries have readily embraced these technologies with open arms. Due to the nature of the business, the life sciences industry has historically been careful about its adoption of new technologies. […]
Scalability: Essential in Running Analytics and Big Data Projects
Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. Big data and analytics projects can help your business considerably, but their performance directly depends on the hardware used. One common issue is the lack of scalability, when your project starts using an increased amount of resources. Not being able to grow your infrastructure along with your […]
The Role of OLAP in the Cloud Era
Click to learn more about author George Demarest. It is the nature of software engineers to quickly adopt new, superior algorithms, tools, and approaches while they quickly and unceremoniously jettison the old. The most positive result of these impulses is rapid and continuous innovation – which savvy business leaders can turn to their advantage. The […]
Image Captioning: Generating Stories from Unstructured Data Using Applied NLG
Click here to learn more about Dr. Chintan Shah. Stories have been a proven medium for influencing, explaining, and teaching for ages. Stories provoke thought and bring out insights that are hard to decipher and understand otherwise. The art of storytelling is often overlooked in data-driven operations, and businesses fail to understand that the best […]
Why You Should Be Data-Focused – Not Data-Driven
Click here to learn more about Victor Dudemaine. As data professionals, we are living in the golden age of “DATA.” Data is king. Consulting firms and CEOs alike are proclaiming “data is the new oil” that will run our information economy for years to come. The question I ask each of you then is this: “How […]
Building a Time Series Analysis Application
Click to learn more about author Maarit Widmann. A complete time series analysis application covers the steps in a Data Science cycle from accessing to transforming, modeling, evaluating, and deploying time series data. However, for time series data the specific tasks in these steps differ in comparison to cross-sectional data. For example, cross sectional data are […]
Important Features of Business Intelligence Tools
What are business intelligence (BI) tools? Which tool is best for your organization? Which criteria should be kept in mind while comparing the different tools? Business intelligence tools transform unprocessed data into meaningful and actionable insight. BI tools analyze the data and convert them into a presentable and analytical data set in the form of […]
Moving Unstructured Data Is Risky and Pricey, but Critical: Five Steps to Improve It
Click to learn more about author Daniel Esposito. It’s time-consuming – and often very costly – for enterprises to perform a network-attached storage (NAS) or object data migration. As moving unstructured data has proliferated over the past decade, with as much as 90% of all data defined as unstructured data, the task has become increasingly […]