Click here to learn more about author Steve Miller. I’ve been doing analysis on a Chicago Crime data set off and on the last few of months, using the now ubiquitous Jupyter Notebook to manage my work. Trouble is, I like to switch between data science language leaders R and Python, using the best of each for data munging, […]
Data Science Predictions for 2017
Data is now creating opportunities for business growth and profit like never before. In the last decade, the emergence of advanced data technologies and superior analytics tools has made it possible for business operators to reap numerous benefits from their data assets, yet for most they’ve only just scratched the surface of data’s potential. Data […]
The Future of Big Data: Smart Data Innovations and Challenges
Big Data with Advanced Analytics is now being used extensively to find patterns and trends, and to predict the results of certain activities, such as movements in the stock market through advanced processing techniques packaged together into the term Smart Data – or data with intelligence. Data Analytics, along with Data Science techniques, have become […]
Can Data Science and Big Data Improve Design?
Click here to learn more about author Dr. Rahul Razdan. A question for Designers and Data Scientists alike: Can members of the latter empower representatives of the former? Which is to say, can design – a discipline dependent on the artistic ability and the qualitative skills of a given person – become better and more […]
Presenting Ediom, a New Cognitive Computing and Data Science Company
Business Wire has recently reported on Vizient, Inc. announcing the formation of Ediom, LLC, a cognitive computing and data science company solely focused on the needs of health care. Vizient formed this new company with Anita Pramoda, founder of Owned Outcomes, Inc. and former Chief Financial Officer at Epic Systems. Ediom will utilize its proprietary […]
Can IBM Watson Analytics Replace the Data Scientist?
At the core of IBM’s Watson Analytics is a powerful bull’s-eye tool; it employs a powerful user query as the basis of analysis. The Data Scientist or business user is free to play with the variables in any dataset and directly visualize how the changing user inputs impact the answers. The bull’s-eye also helps narrow […]
Data Lakes Healthcare/Life Sciences Market Growing
According to PRNewswire, MarketsandMarkets has estimated the global data lakes market will grow from USD 2.53 billion in 2016 to USD 8.81 billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 28.3%. The data lakes market is growing rapidly because of the transition from traditional techniques of data storage and management such as […]
New Meaning in Big Data
Click to learn more about author Jon Bock. The evolution of data analytics is approaching an inflection point. Early on, discussions of big data served largely to create awareness about the potential of mining large-scale data. Those discussions evolved over time into how to build solutions that could handle that data and stories of how […]
Developing Machine Learning Skills on the Job
Data continues to inhabit every facet of human existence and so the need for competent Data Scientists to help leverage the insights from that data will invariably increase for the foreseeable future. According to a past EMC Data Scientist Study and the 2015 Global IT Report, the amounts of data created by the year 2020 […]
May 4 DI&A Webinar: The Role of a Data Scientist (Interview with a CDS)
DATE: May 4, 2017 This webinar has passed. The recording will be made available On Demand within two US business days. TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar What does a Data Scientist actually do? Much of the discussion has focused on the difficulties associated with […]