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 […]
New GoodData Support for Amazon Redshift Helps Enterprise Deliver Analytics Solutions
A new press release reports, “GoodData®, a leader in end-to-end analytics solutions, announced it is now leveraging Amazon Redshift, a cloud data warehouse by Amazon Web Services (AWS). ‘I believe that GoodData and Amazon Redshift represent an ideal combination for analytics in SaaS products,’ said Zdenek Svoboda, VP of Product at GoodData. In addition, the […]
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. […]
Alteryx Acquires Feature Labs to Advance Machine Learning for the Enterprise
A recent press release states, “Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced that it has acquired Feature Labs, a data science software company launched out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that automates feature engineering for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The acquisition of Feature Labs will further enable […]
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, […]
Case Study: Big Data Analytics Advance Sutton Bank Forward
Sutton Bank is an FDIC-regulated, Ohio state-chartered bank. They have been in the payment business about 20 years, specifically in the prepaid space. Jeff Lewis, Senior Vice President of Payments and Prepaid Card Services at Sutton Bank, says that payment and card services are an increasingly popular offering for financial institutions, provided they can keep […]
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 […]
NICE Announces the New Generation of Interaction Analytics
A new press release states, “NICE today announced that its analytics offering now includes cutting-edge AutoDiscovery capabilities. Leveraging AI-based unsupervised machine learning, these capabilities provide organizations with cross-channel insights on service anomalies and surfaces areas that are customer pain points. As a result, organizations can swiftly remedy issues as they emerge, improving customer experiences and […]
Elastic Releases Elastic Stack 7.4.0
According to a new press release, “Elastic N.V., the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced the general availability of version 7.4 of the Elastic Stack. Debuting in version 7.4 are several new features that simplify cluster administration and operations, introduce new aggregation and machine learning capabilities, and deepen the stack security experience. […]
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 […]