ActiveViam Launches its Data Lab to Help Companies Find Insights into their Future
ActiveViam, a leader of in-memory analytics solutions for operational decision making, announced the creation, within the company, of a new entity specialized in Data Science. This Data Lab, attached to the R&D department of ActiveViam Paris, is dedicated to enhancing the forecasting capacity of its customers and prospects by providing them with richer insights into their markets, operations and customers.
Featured Stories
Accessible and Affordable – Big Data for Small Business
In this special guest feature, David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International, Inc., believes that small business owners that feel big data is just for the “big players” are in for a surprise when they check out the latest small business analytics tools. These tools are more accessible both in terms of cost and their actual user interfaces, making them usable by people with only moderate technical skill.
Big Data and Its Role in the Waste and Recycling Industry
In this contributed article, freelance human Avery Phillips believes that the advent of big data is making the whole process of recycling and waste management much easier. In fact, big data has impacted many industrial and scientific realms in ways that benefit the environment. For example, it is regularly used to help scientists and land managers gain a better understanding of our changing environment and ways to combat climate change.
Big Models are Carbon Efficient if you Share Them
Dr. Samuel Leeman-Munk, research statistician developer at SAS, and Dr. Xiaolong Li, staff scientist at SAS, explore the carbon emissions generated through training a high-performing NLP model, and offers examples and best practices for how these models can benefit hundreds of other researchers and millions of customers to paint a less dire picture of AI’s effect on the environment.
Featured Resource
Streaming Cloud Integration: Key Data Considerations for Hybrid and Multicloud Architectures
This new white paper from Striim, “Streaming Cloud Integration: Key Data Considerations for Hybrid and Multicloud Architectures,” is a timely guide for enterprise decision makers who have accepted the benefits of moving to the cloud: elastic scalability, agility to launch innovative solutions quickly using modern technologies, better cash flow management, and lower expenses with a pay-as-you-go model, just to name a few.
Industry Perspectives
Why Alerts Aren’t Enough: The Rise of AI-Driven Automated Analytics
In this special guest feature, Glen Rabie, CEO of Yellowfin, discusses how alerts are commonly used as a basic business intelligence tool, but there’s a better alternative: AI-driven automated analytics. AI has the power to parse the data behind dashboards and send a signal when significant activity happens. Here are five reasons why AI-driven automated analytics are better than alerts in today’s evolving business landscape.
Why Data Annotation is the Secret to Hacking AI
In this special guest feature, Michael Goldberg, VP of Marketing at Innodata (NASDAQ: INOD), indicates that even the most technically advanced algorithm cannot address or solve a problem without the right data. We know having access to data is quite valuable, but having access to data with a learnable ‘signal’ consistently added at a massive scale is the biggest competitive advantage nowadays. That’s the power of data annotation.
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Editor’s Choice
Field Report: KDD 2019
As a very long time member of the ACM and their SIGKDD group, I’d always wanted to attend a KDD conference (first one occurred in 1995). This year I received a gracious invitation to attend KDD2019 in Anchorage, Alaska, August 4-8. It satisfied two of my bucket list items: witnessing a KDD first-hand and also visiting Anchorage. I was not disappointed with the experience! What follows is my “Field Report,” a travel log if you will, chronicling my observations, both technical and cultural. KDD is touted as being “the premier interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, [READ MORE…]
The Harvard Data Science Initiative and The MIT Press Launch the HARVARD DATA SCIENCE REVIEW
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and the MIT Press are pleased to announce the launch of the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). The multimedia platform will feature leading global thinkers in the burgeoning field of data science, making research, educational resources, and commentary accessible to academics, professionals, and the interested public. With demand for data scientists booming, HDSR will provide a centralized, authoritative, and peer-reviewed publishing community to service the growing profession.
The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q3 2019
The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in following the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with most of the firms making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List of the most important movers and shakers in our industry. These companies have proven their relevance by the way they’re impacting [READ MORE…]
Field Report: GPU Technology Conference 2019 #GTC19
I eagerly attended my 3rd GPU Technology Conference (GTC): “Deep Learning & AI Conference,” in Silicon Valley, March 23-26 as a guest of host NVIDIA. GTC has become my favorite tech event of the year due to its highly focused topic areas that align well with my own; data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning; plus the show has an academic feel that I appreciate.
insideBIGDATA 2019 Annual Executive Round Up
Our annual insideBIGDATA Executive Round Up showcases the insights of thought leaders on the state of the big data industry, and where it is headed. In our annual 2019 round up, we examine five topics: the importance of AI explainability in 2019, what industries are making the best competitive use of AI in 2019, how enterprises are seeking to improve technological infrastructure and cloud hosting processes for supporting AI, how AI-optimized hardware solves important compute and storage requirements, and how AI plays important roles at 3 leading companies.
