Click to learn more about author Chirag Mudsa. New technologies are continuing to make retail stores smarter. Among the latest range of smart and futuristic technologies for retail stores, artificial intelligence and machine learning have the most paradigm-shifting capabilities. While the underlying fear of job loss thanks to these technologies is still there, no one […]
Data Science in Life
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Early last Spring, I was texted by a neighbor friend who asked if I’d be willing to chat with her regarding the pending college choice of her daughter. A top student at our suburban Chicago high school, the young woman had plans to become a physician, and […]
The Power of Analytics in the Data Economy
Click to learn more about author Josh Bartels. Economics studies a market’s supply and demand curves, trying to understand the changes to each curve and its overall effect on the market. If we borrow from that concept, we are constantly moving to a new economy with an ever-growing supply of data being created each day. […]
Bridging the Gap between Prescriptive Analytics and Trust
Click to learn more about author Omri Kohl. Prescriptive analytics has the potential to amplify the decision-making ability of data-driven organizations by examining what has happened and using that information to recommend – or even implement – next steps. But this power is dependent on just how much users can trust the data being mined, […]
What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Self-serve data preparation (SSDP) is the logical evolution of business intelligence analytical tools. With self-serve tools, data discovery and analytics tools are accessible to team members and business users across the enterprise. What is SSDP? SSDP is a crucial component of advanced data discovery. With self-serve data prep, data […]
The Use and Abuse of Deep Learning for Image Recognition
Click to learn more about author Jasmine Morgan. From unlocking your phone to automatically tagging pictures on Facebook, deep learning enhances image recognition in multiple sectors. This is generally called computer vision, and it means that algorithms can see and understand images, much like humans. However, since computers operate using binary code, machine learning transforms images […]
The Power of Manufacturing Analytics
Click to learn more about author Aaron Fuller. We got the power! Well, figuratively speaking. Manufacturers have the potential to be extremely powerful. Modern machinery – almost all of it – yields a tsunami of highly detailed data. The data can describe the function of the machine, errors that occur, how many things the machine […]
Deploying the Obscure Python Script: Neuro-Styling of Portrait Pictures
Click to learn more about author Rosaria Silipo. Click to learn more about co-author Mykhailo Lisovyi. Today’s Style: Caravaggio or Picasso? While surfing on the internet a few months ago, we came across this study[i], promising to train a neural network to alter any image according to your preferred painter’s style. These kinds of studies […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds: Choosing a Machine Learning Approach
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 17 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]
How to Choose the Right Tech to Turn Your Big Data and Cloud Strategy into Big Wins
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Using an analytics database and a hybrid approach to revolutionize your strategy. Data. Data. Data. It doesn’t matter how many times people mention the word it’s not going to magically transform your organization into a data-driven powerhouse. You need a clear strategy to manage the ever-growing mountain […]