When Big Data Meets Data Visualization: How to Make Your Data Actionable
In this contributed article, technology writer and blogger Kayla Matthews discusses how society is growing increasingly familiar with data visualization and its beneficial impact on data analysis and actionability. The power of analysis is largely contingent on the presentation of data. The best forms of data visualization convey useful insights, while poor efforts can distract from actionable insight. [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Pure Storage Announces AIRI™ Mini: Complete, AI-Ready Infrastructure for Everyone
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced its second AI-Ready Infrastructure offering, AIRI™ Mini, powered by NVIDIA. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIAⓇ DGX-1™ system. [READ MORE...]
Are You Ready for GDPR?: 5 Hard Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Customer Data Partners
In this contributed article, Nitay Joffe, co-founder and CTO of ActionIQ, provides 5 tough questions every data controller should ask their data processors in preparation for the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance deadline on May 25. [READ MORE...]
Spotting Fake News With AI
In this special guest feature, Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind, discusses ways AI can identify fake news. Specifically, deep learning has the ability to identify fake news based on all sorts of tells. He also provides references to initiatives like the Fake News Challenge and Fakebox that show how AI can be applied with fairly high accuracy to identify fake news. [READ MORE...]
Featured Resource
The Enterprise AI Promise: Path to Value
This interview survey from SAS explores enterprise readiness for artificial intelligence (AI). Respondents came from across EMEA and from a number of industries and sectors. Their views on enterprise AI and their organizations’ levels of readiness were diverse. Download the report, courtesy of SAS, that explores how enterprise AI can make companies more profitable and efficient, as well as study results that shows enterprise readiness to accept and adopt AI.
Industry Perspectives
Deep Learning at the Edge Drives New Models for Security
In this special guest feature, George Brostoff, Founder and CEO of SensibleVision, shows his excitement about AI’s potential to dramatically transform and improve the security space. When most people think of AI and security, they conjure how it might be applied to prevent hackers and malicious actors from penetrating Enterprise databases, stealing customer credit card numbers or social media profile information. But AI has the power to improve security much more broadly. [Read More...]
Data Science: A Business Lynchpin, Not an Experiment
In this special guest feature, co-founder and CEO of Domino Data Lab, discusses how too many organizations still view data science a technical skill, acquired simply by hiring a few data scientists. By doing so, they are not building the critical organizational muscle necessary to leverage predictive models as an enduring competitive advantage. [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q2 2018
The team here at insideBIGDATA is deeply entrenched in the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We're in close contact with a great many 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 for publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List of the most important movers and shakers in our industry. These companies have proven their relevance by they way they're impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services. We're happy to publish this evolving list of the industry's most impactful companies! [Read More...]
Top Skills Data Scientists Need To Learn in 2018
Data scientists are in high demand, taking the number 1 spot in Glassdoor's Best Jobs in America list in 2016 and 2017, with 4,84 position available and boasting a median base salary of $110,000. According to Jim Webber, Chief Scientist at Neo4j, the following is a short-list of the most essential tech skills for data scientists to adopt this year. [Read More...]
The Future of Smart Cities
In this contributed article, freelance human Avery Phillips discusses the evolution of smart cities from the perspective of how urbanscapes will be run more efficiently through the collection of big data and the use of connected IoT devices. Hospitals will be better able to care for their patients and transportation will run more smoothly than ever. Even though we don’t know what the future holds, we can still look forward to a smarter tomorrow. [Read More...]
How Netflix Uses Big Data to Drive Success
Netflix has over 100 million subscribers and with that comes a wealth of data they can analyze to improve the user experience. Big data has helped Netflix massively in their mission to become the king of stream. Our friends over at FrameYourTV developed the compelling infographic below that highlights Netflix's use of big data, specifically interesting statistics, how Netflix gathers big data, and how Netflix uses big data. [Read More...]
The Difference Between Data Science and Data Analytics
In this contributed article, tech writer Rick Delgado, examines the differences between the terms: data science and data analytics, where people working in the tech field or other related industries probably hear these terms all the time, often interchangeably. Although they may sound similar, the terms are often quite different and have differing implications for business. [Read More...]
