Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) Gentimis, Assistant Professor of Math and Analytics at Florida Polytechnic University sees the future of analytics as a team effort, where subject matter experts (SMEs) collaborate in teams with Data Scientists and each team member plays to his or her strengths. He also sees a reliance on Deep Learning for creation of […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Announces the Agenda for The 2016 Enterprise DATAVERSITY: Data Strategy and Analytics Forum
Today, DATAVERSITY Education, LLC released the agenda for the Enterprise DATAVERSITY: Data Strategy and Analytics Forum. The event will be held September 19-22, 2016, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Visit enterprisedataversity.com to review the full agenda, event details, speakers, and registration options. This year’s agenda focuses on achieving Business Strategy through Data Analytics. […]
Data Science Education at NCSU: Education with a Mission
The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) at North Carolina State University (NCSU) is one of the oldest Data Science degrees in the country. The program began in 2007, with the school’s Institute for Advanced Analytics focused on supporting the success of its students. A presentation about the program at the school sets its ambitions […]
Infographic: Business Analytics v. Data Science
by Angela Guess The Kogod School of Business at American University recently put together an infographic comparing careers in business analytics with careers in Data Science. Phil Simon writes, “Not too long ago, The Harvard Business Review dubbed data scientist ‘the sexiest job of the 21st century.’ What’s more, McKinsey reported that the United States […]
Fighting Human Trafficking with Data Science
by Angela Guess Hannah Augur reports in Dataconomy.com, “Finding missing children and unraveling the complex web of human trafficking is no easy task. The relevant datasets are massive and often unstandardized. It can be difficult to find the right data at all, as it often disappears from websites and pages on a regular basis. When […]
Where are We with Machine Learning?
Learn more about video blogger Stefan Groschupf. Over the course of the next few months we will be releasing insights in Machine Learning, the Cloud, and Big Data in this new video blog series presented by Stefan Groschupf, CEO of Datameer. Here’s Stefan’s first short video blog on “Where are We with Machine Learning?.”
Chief Data Scientist Vitaly Gordon On the Future of the Career
by Angela Guess Jennifer Bi of Salesforce recently wrote in Business2Community, “Big Data has been a hot topic since the Information Age took the world by storm in the 21st century. What quickly followed was the birth of the ‘data scientist’ as an occupation to manage this influx of information, a job title our past […]
Natural Language Generation: A Revolution in Business Insight
“Think about just how interconnected the world is now,” said Matt Gould, the co-founder of Arria NLG, a prominent enterprise in the development and deployment of Natural Language Generation (NLG) technologies worldwide. “Think about it from just a personal context. How much data are you generating personally every day?” Modern, connected humans interact constantly online […]
3 Ways to Avoid Disappointment with Data Science Projects
by Angela Guess Sergo Grigalashvili recently wrote in The Enterprisers Project, “You know the old saying: ‘lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ The same can be said about data science broadly. We can easily, by mistake or not, say or imply something using numbers that are not there in reality; predictive models can be good on […]
How Cognitive Data Science Can Cure the Talent Shortage
Click here to learn more about author Sundeep Sanghavi. The Internet of Things and its interconnected approach has led to an overwhelming explosion of big data. About 6.4 billion connected devices are already in use today, and Gartner expects that number to reach 20.8 billion by 2020. This growth is big business; it’s estimated that […]