AI and the Future of Work
ZipRecruiter released their latest Future of Work report – examining how AI will impact future career opportunities and how humans and technology will work together. Interestingly, the report notes that “the most successful applications of AI have been when used in partnership with humans, rather than as a replacement” – directly contradicting most employees’ fear of the technology. High level takeaways from the report include: 44% of businesses surveyed said that they use some form of AI46% of workers surveyed said they work with some form of AI on a regular basisSenior data scientists were the fastest growing jobs created [READ MORE…]
Featured Stories
How AI Can Help Marketers Harness Big Data Opportunities in 2019
In this special guest feature, Solomon Thimothy, CEO of DMA | Digital Marketing Agency, believes that digital marketing advancements in 2018 have set a high bar for customer expectations. Customers now expect, deserve and demand that personalized, seamless transactions will only increase in 2019. By focusing on data-based AI solutions, organizations can ensure the customer journey will be more personalized and more profitable in the year to come. [READ MORE…]
AI and Healthcare: Figure Out the Problem First
In this contributed article, Kulmeet Singh, CEO and Founder of Twistle, discusses how AI-enabled healthcare will certainly get more robust over time and enhance the effectiveness of everyone in the broader ecosystem, and even improve outcomes for patients — that is, after all, the ultimate goal. [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. [READ MORE…]
Featured Resource
From Out of Nowhere: the Unstoppable Rise of the Data Catalog
The data catalog has come from nowhere in the past five years to become a key enabling technology for multiple use cases including self-service analytics, self-service data preparation and multi-location data management. Download a new white paper from Unifi Software that explores the data catalog as a major data management breakthrough, as well as its importance in enabling modern analytics architecture.
Industry Perspectives
The Future of AI in Retail: Fueling Change for the Industry
In this special guest feature, Matt Field, President and Co-Founder of MakerSights, says there’s no denying that AI and ML are starting to change the nature of the retail industry. One of its greatest benefits will be in how intelligent automation can be used by humans to augment their jobs. Embracing AI and ML and incorporating this with human intuition to predict, create and manage consumer preferences can help retailers increase their bottom line while meeting modern consumer expectations for personalized, on-trend and convenient products. [READ MORE…]
Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) and its business implications in 2019
In this special guest feature, Rob Light, Research Principal at G2 Crowd, believes that the technology behind MLaaS will become prominent in 2019 with the help of the cloud giants, media and consulting partnership opportunities. Businesses will become more aware of the abundant opportunities these solutions present and implementations will expand, so much so that they may become the reason businesses choose specific cloud computing providers. While that may seem optimistic, it is also a very rational next step in achieving true digital transformation. [READ MORE…]
Featured from insideHPC
- Intel Labs Unveils Pohoiki Beach 64-Chip Neuromorphic SystemAt the DARPA ERI summit this week, Intel Labs director Rich Uhlig unveiled “Pohoiki Beach” – a 64-Loihi Chip Neuromorphic system capable of simulating eight million neurons. Now available to the broader research community, the Pohoiki Beach enables researchers to experiment with Intel’s brain-inspired research chip, Loihi, which applies the principles found in the biological […]
News from insideHPC
- Data Vortex hosts Texas Women in HPC Summer Mixer
- Intel Labs Unveils Pohoiki Beach 64-Chip Neuromorphic System
- DDN: Innovating to Create a Brighter Future for AI, HPC, and Big Data
- Evolve Project in the EU to Tackle Big Data Processing
- Exploring Bright Cluster Manager on NVIDIA DGX Systems
- Faster Path to HPC Enabled with Intel Select Solutions for Simulation & Modeling
- Brent Gorda from Arm looks back at ISC 2019
Editor’s Choice
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 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…]
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. [READ MORE…]
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. [READ MORE…]
Field Report: H2O World 2019 San Francisco
I was pleased to be on-hand for the recent (Feb. 4-5) H2O World 2019 conference in beautiful San Francisco. This was my first H2o.ai conference and I was looking forward to drilling down into their popular open source solutions for data scientists including the H2O machine learning platform, Sparkling Water machine learning platform on Spark, H2O4GPU accelerated AI for GPUs, as well as the groundbreaking Driverless AI automatic machine learning (AutoML) platform. With all this leading-edge technology and resulting industry buzz, I can see why the company recently ranked #9 on insideBIGDATA’s IMPACT 50 list of the industry’s most impactful companies. [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…]
