“Whether you’re working with Big Data, or whether you’re working with very small data sets, you always need to prepare data for anything that you’re doing with it,” said Paige Schaefer, Product Marketing Manager for Trifacta. Schaefer and colleague Matt Derda, Senior Customer Success Manager, recently talked with DATAVERSITY® about Trifacta’s Data Wrangling technologies. “Data […]
Domino Data Lab Unveils Framework to Enable Businesses to Become Model-Driven
A new press release reports, “Domino Data Lab, provider of an open data science platform, today introduced a framework to help organizations become model-driven by systematically developing, validating, delivering, and monitoring predictive and machine learning models at scale. The Model Management framework, substantiated by engagements with hundreds of organizations that run their businesses on models, […]
Deep Learning Use Cases
Deep Learning (DL) has become more than just a buzzword in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community – it is reshaping global business through the prolific use of autonomous, self-teaching systems, which can build models by directly studying images, text, audio, or video data. Such systems can use that data for future pattern recognition. According to […]
Analytics and Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
A solid Computer Science education at Georgia Tech has been available since 1964, with the start of their Information Science program. By 1970, it had become the School of Information and Computer Science (ICS), offering bachelor’s degrees in information science and doctorates in ICS. The College of Computing continues to maintain a leadership role, expanding […]
Redoubling Analytic Value with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. The underlying value derived from data-driven processes has become increasingly paired with Analytics. Once regarded as a desirable supplement to intuitive decision-making, Analytics has emerged as the focus of mission critical applications across industries for any number of use cases. Yet as the reasons for applying Analytics […]
Computational Social Science
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. It seems I write something on the nature of Data Science every year. Early on, my take on DS was in motion, but now it’s much more grounded. My points of Data Science departure are the iconic “what is DS” pronouncements from Drew Conway and David Donoho. […]
Looker Accelerates and Simplifies Data Science Workflows
A new press release reports, “Looker, a leading data platform company, today announced tools and integrations that optimize data science workflows. Looker accelerates the data science stack by removing the struggle to prepare data and freeing up time for data scientists to use their unique skill set to perform higher-value tasks. Looker already delivers reliable, […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds: Reinforcement Learning
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 3 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, […]
IBM Helps Accelerate AI with Fast New Data Platform, Elite Team
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “As companies look to embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) to gain competitive advantage and increase productivity, IBM today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform and an elite consulting team to help them accelerate their AI journeys. Powered by a fast in-memory database that can […]
Push Not Pull: Using Data Science to Improve OR Operations
Click to learn more about author Sanjeev Agrawal. While virtually every hospital has implemented a version of an electronic health record (EHR) that tracks the patient journey, most hospital administrators still use the tool in a “pull” manner; they start with something in mind and then look for the data. This causes problems when people aren’t […]