Click to learn more about author Jack Mardack. Digital transformation is not a one-size-fits-all undertaking. Each organization begins its journey from a unique starting point and a 100% migration to the cloud may not necessarily be the answer for every company. Whether it has a legacy analytics system based on Netezza or Teradata or mission-critical […]
Four Artificial Intelligence Use Cases in 2020
Click to learn more about author Anis Uzzaman. As the new year and decade have dawned, the buzz surrounding artificial intelligence and its impact in 2020 and beyond shows no signs of slowing down. AI has now been incorporated into the everyday life of consumers in the developed world, largely driven by the emergence of […]
Regularization for Logistic Regression: L1, L2, Gauss or Laplace?
Click to learn more about author Kathrin Melcher. Regularization can be used to avoid overfitting. But what actually is regularization, what are the common techniques, and how do they differ? Well, according to Ian Goodfellow [1]: “Regularization is any modification we make to a learning algorithm that is intended to reduce its generalization error but […]
Thirty Questions for Establishing Embedded BI Requirements
Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. For the uninitiated, finding the right embedded business intelligence solution can feel a bit like ordering food from an international restaurant. The question isn’t what you’re in the mood for – it’s what’s on the menu that you’re in the mood for. That’s a difficult question for someone […]
Case Study: Deriving Spark Encoders and Schemas Using Implicits
Click to learn more about author Dávid Szakallas. In recent years, the size and complexity of our Identity Graph, a data lake containing identity information about people and businesses around the world, begged the addition of Big Data technologies in the ingestion process. We used Apache Pig initially, and then migrated to Apache Spark a […]
Need a Push? Agile Thinking Gets You Over the Hump
Click here to learn more about author Jim Sawyer. Sometimes, we just need to start. We need to ignore our internal excuses and just do something. But it can be tough to do that when the business issues we are trying to inform are nebulous and ill-defined. Regardless of our personalities, inertia often confronts us […]
Data: The Key to Powering the Age of Enlightenment
Click to learn more about author Piet Loubser. Industry pundits are calling our current age the “post-digital era.” Accenture outlines some interesting thoughts on the subject – most importantly, that engaging in digital today is nothing more than table-stakes in order to do business. Never before has it been so critical to apply digital technologies […]
2020 is the Year for Enterprise Data Connectivity
Click to learn more about Tony Fisher. Expect this in 2020: Data will come to the forefront of enterprise priorities. The consumerization of IT and democratization of data have triggered a dramatic shift in data control across small and large organizations. Data control – once the sole domain of the CIO or CTO via the […]
Eight Big Data Analytics Options on Microsoft Azure
Click here to learn more about Gilad David Maayan. Raw data is meaningless. It is the process of big data analysis that turns meaningless datasets into actionable insights. Big data analytics is the foundation of data-driven decisions, which enable organizations to avoid guesses and hopeful intuition. Before you can transform your raw data into insights, […]
Everything You Need to Know About NLP and its Use Cases
Click to learn more about author Hiren Dhaduk. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is defined as the automatic manipulation of natural languages, such as speech and text, by using software or any programming language. It is a branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the interaction between humans and computers using natural language. In short, the […]