According to a recent press release, “Ascend, provider of the world’s first Autonomous Dataflow Service, today emerged from stealth with $19M in funding to de-risk big data projects and accelerate digital transformations. Ascend operates the only solution with which data engineering teams can quickly build, scale, and operate continuously optimized, Apache Spark-based pipelines. By combining […]
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. […]
Slides: Designing a Successful Governed Citizen Data Science Strategy
Designing a Successful Governed Citizen Data Science Strategy from DATAVERSITY To view the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> Original Air Date: March 27, 2019 This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar To compete in today’s digital economy, enterprises require new ways to expand AI across their entire organization. Nearly all firms want […]
Webinar: Designing a Successful Governed Citizen Data Science Strategy
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> Original Air Date: March 27, 2019 This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar To compete in today’s digital economy, enterprises require new ways to expand AI across their entire organization. Nearly all firms want to do more with data science, but they don’t know […]
Press Release: Now Accepting Speaking Proposals for the 2019 Data Architecture Summit
February 13, 2019 – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC opened the Call for Presentations today for the third annual Data Architecture Summit (DAS), which will be held October 14-17, 2019, at the Westin Chicago River North in Chicago, Ill. Proposals must be received by March 29 in order to be considered. For more event details and speaker […]
2018 DATAVERSITY Top 20
As we wrap up 2018 and prepare ourselves for 2019, it’s time to take a moment to review and reflect. And while in review, we take the opportunity to look at the content published, produced, and consumed over the last year. In looking at the top 20 published articles and blogs of the year, Machine […]
Data Science Trends in 2019
When it comes to major Data Science trends to watch in 2019, the co-founder and CEO of Kaggle, Anthony Goldbloom, has predicted that very soon Data Centers will be replaced by departmental or business-specific Data Science teams. As discussed in Data Science Trends in 2018, last year’s major trends continued from 2017 as the growth […]
The Future of NLP in Data Science
According to many market statistics, data volume is doubling every two years, but in future this time span may get further reduced. The vast portion of this data (about 79 percent) is text data. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the sub-branch of Data Science that attempts to extract insights from “text.” Thus, NLP is assuming […]
Building an Effective Data Science Team
Dr. Cindi Thompson considers Data Scientists to be raccoons: “Raccoons are both smart and dangerous, and that’s kind of the way we think about Data Scientists.” Speaking at the DATAVERSITY® Enterprise Analytics Online 2017 Conference, in her presentation titled “How to Get the Most Value from Data Science Teams” Thompson said, “Raccoons have that desire […]
The Future Impact of Data Science on Business Analytics
The field of Data Science is in a transitional mode in terms of how the latest data technologies are being used to solve business problems for a strategic advantage. In the near future, Data Scientists will conduct their business very differently. As Big Data, algorithm economics, IoT, and Cloud continue to become mainstream across global […]