by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Cloudera, Inc., the provider of the leading modern platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies, announced the general availability of the Cloudera Data Science Workbench, its self-service tool for data scientists. The workbench, announced in beta at Strata+Hadoop World […]
Machine Learning Algorithms Today: Usage and Results
Machine Learning algorithms can predict patterns based on previous experiences. The overarching practice of Machine Learning includes both robotics (dealing with the real world) and the processing of data (the computer’s equivalent of thinking). These algorithms find predictable, repeatable patterns that can be applied to eCommerce, Data Management, and new technologies such as driverless cars. […]
Navigant and TROVE Team to Bring the Benefits of Predictive Data Science to Utilities
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Navigant and TROVE today announced a strategic alliance that will help utilities harness the combined power of predictive data science and an analytics platform to make their data more useful, dramatically improving load forecasting, grid performance, and customer adoption of new products and services. ‘This alliance brings […]
IBM Brings Anaconda Open Data Science Platform to IBM Cognitive Systems
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “IBM announced today that it is working with Continuum Analytics to offer Anaconda, a leading Open Data Science platform, on IBM Cognitive Systems. Anaconda will also integrate with the PowerAI software distribution for machine learning and deep learning that makes it simple and fast to take advantage […]
SmartRecruiters Announces Recruiting AI
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “SmartRecruiters, the Hiring Success Company, today announced Recruiting AI. Part of the company’s modern talent acquisition suite, Recruiting AI uses artificial intelligence to process enormous volumes of recruiting data and then interprets that data to detect patterns that help recruiters make better decisions. Current applicant tracking […]
Data Science Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) is focused on addressing a broad range of challenges by promoting research and education in Data Science education, statistics, decision making, and the social sciences. It was launched simultaneously, in the Fall of 2016, with MIT’s new Minor in Statistics and Data Science, and is available to […]
DataScience Releases Grunion, a Patent-Pending Query Optimization Tool
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “DataScience, Inc., today announced the release of Grunion, a patent-pending query optimization, translation, and federation framework built on top of Apache Calcite and integrated into Apache Spark. Designed to bridge the gap between data science and engineering teams by removing the need to manually translate code from […]
Cloudera to Accelerate Data Science for the Enterprise with New Data Science Workbench
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Cloudera, the provider of the leading global platform for machine learning and advanced analytics built on the latest open source technologies, today unveiled Cloudera Data Science Workbench, a new self-service environment for data science on Cloudera Enterprise which is currently in beta. Based on the company’s […]
Kinetica Aims to be The Data Science Company with its GPU-Accelerated Database
“I feel the need…the need for speed.” That quote could be as easily applied to business users eager for the power to move forward with Advanced Analytics as it could to generations of Naval pilots inspired by Tom Cruise in the 1986 movie Top Gun. With Version 6.0 of its GPU-accelerated database, released in January, […]
Smart Data Webinar: Data Science and Business Analysis – A Look at Best Practices for Roles, Skills, and Processes
To view just the slides from the presentation, click HERE>> About the Webinar Google “citizen data scientist” today and you will see about 1M results. That number is data. It may be interesting, but it is meaningless without context. Sometimes it appears that we are drowning in data from systems and sensors but starving for […]