by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Award-winning Manchester agency, Mustard, has followed its recent Pickles product launch by announcing the launch of a new business unit – Honeycomb – that will focus on bringing together the best of its market research experience with cutting edge analytic and data science approaches to deliver smarter, […]
Methodically Reproducible Data in 2018
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I generally establish a theme to my involvement early on when I attend Strata Data. Missing only last year, I’ve been witness to Strata’s large breadth of topics. The last few years have included deep dives into the then new Spark platform and iPython notebook (now Jupyter […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds: Unsupervised Machine Learning
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 1 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, […]
Alteryx Alters Data Science with New Release
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Alteryx, Inc., revolutionizing business through data science and analytics, today announced the general availability of Alteryx Promote, a component of the Alteryx Analytics platform that allows both data scientists and citizen data scientists to deploy predictive models directly into business applications through an API, and then […]
Building the Future of Women in Data
Careers involving data expertise are soaring. Data skills have seen significant growth in recent years, according to The Quant Crunch report. By 2020, the report predicts, the number of positions for data and analytics talent in the United States will increase by 364,000 openings, to 2,720,000. Clinical Data Analysis (+54 percent) Data Science (+40 […]
The Role of the Data Scientist
Click to learn more about author N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan. If there were ever a role that debunked today’s obsession with technology stealing our jobs, it is that of the Data Scientist. The growth in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Big Data Analytics has created a jobs boom, with Data Scientist being named the best job […]
IT and Data Education Predictions: Democratizing Tech Skills
In five to ten years, said Johan den Haan, the CTO in charge of R&D and Cloud Operations at Mendix, the number of computer scientists and data professionals using 3gl programming languages (Java, BASIC, C+) “will not” grow that much. Instead, this limited number of them will focus on creating the engines and compilers, and […]
Leading Cloud Providers Join with NSF to Support Data Science Frontiers
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing nearly $30 million in new funding for research in data science and engineering through its Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) program. NSF’s awards are paired with support from […]
RapidMiner Reinvents Automated Machine Learning to Accelerate Data Science
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “RapidMiner™, the company that delivers real data science, fast and simple, today announced the immediate availability of RapidMiner 8.1 and RapidMiner Auto Model, a new addition to RapidMiner Studio that accelerates everything data scientists do when building machine learning models. ‘Automated machine learning promised data scientists […]
John Snow Labs Launches First White Label Data Science Platform
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release out of the company, “John Snow Labs, an award winning global data operations company, today announces the launch of the first-ever fully white label data science platform. The solution is designed to help technology companies, healthcare providers, researchers, governments and non-profit organizations use data to improve […]