According to a recent press release, “To help businesses accelerate opportunities in the booming next-generation technology areas of analytics and IoT, Tech Data today introduced its Analytics and IoT Solution Factory. This new global offering expands on the click-to-run solutions found in the Tech Data Cloud Solution Factory to create vetted analytics and IoT solutions […]
R Should Be Your Second Language – or Maybe 1.5
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A few weeks ago, I came across a LinkedIn blog entitled “R Should Be Your Second Language (If It’s Not Your First)” by Paul Allison. Paul’s an old grad school friend/colleague from many years ago who went on to a distinguished academic career as professor at the […]
Recommender Systems for Digital Businesses: Which Is Best?
Click to learn more about author Elena Bondarik. The internet is a go-to space for businesses seeking to access the global marketplace. Nowadays, there is a preference among shoppers to make purchases online from the comfort of their own homes, where they can evaluate a wide variety of options before buying instead of visiting a […]
Visualizing Data for Insight into the Customer Journey
Click to learn more about author Victor DeMarines. Skills related to User Experience (UX) design are high in demand. They are among the top 10 in-demand skills in 2019 ranked by a LinkedIn study, and finding qualified UX designers is tied with finding software engineers in terms of hiring priorities, according to a recent Adobe study. […]
Proven, Rapid ROI Assures Funding for Augmented Analytics Projects
As business organizations fight for competitive advantage, funding for projects and large expenditures can fall by the wayside. In today’s competitive business market, every senior executive looks at risk, value and calculations like return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) before approving a budget. When it comes to advanced analytics, businesses large […]
Siren 10.2 Released – Free Community Edition, Simplified Data Ingestion and Extraction
A new press release out of the company reports, “Siren, the investigative intelligence platform, today announced the release of Siren 10.2 – a solution that combines advanced link analysis, BI, big data monitoring, operational intelligence monitoring, data discovery and search all on one platform. The latest version ships with dozens of core upgrades and high […]
The State of Data Science: Expertise Shortage Creates a Need for Innovation
The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil but data. As a result, the skills required to convert data into insights that generate revenues are in high demand. Unfortunately, one of the biggest hurdles companies face when trying to capitalize on their data sets is a lack of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. […]
SAP and Uber Freight Join Forces to Deliver On-Demand Logistics
A new press release reports, “SAP SE and Uber Freight today announced a partnership to modernize the freight industry through intelligent process automation and better access to a network of connected and reliable drivers. The integration of Uber Freight into SAP® Logistics Business Network will let customers access transportation rates from Uber’s digitally activated carrier […]
Yara and IBM Join Forces to Transform the Future of Farming
A recent press release reports, “Yara International, a global leader in crop nutrition, and IBM, today announced an agreement to build the world’s leading digital farming platform, providing holistic digital services and instant agronomic advice. Yara and IBM Services will jointly innovate and commercialize digital agricultural solutions that will help increase global food production by […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds – Lesson 13: LASSO
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 13 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, […]