Canoe Announces AI Technology Eliminating Manual Data Entry
Canoe Intelligence is for the first time using cutting-edge ocular character recognition (OCR) techniques, natural language processing technology, machine learning, and a thorough validation process to eliminate this error-prone, slow, and un-secure manual data entry process for institutional investors, pensions funds and family offices worldwide. [READ MORE…]
Featured Stories
How Big Data is Helping Monitor STD Rates and Get People Tested
In this contributed article, freelance human Avery Phillips discusses the importance of tracking data around infection rates, geographical location, and patient demographics for the continued treatment of STDs. This not only helps us understand how changes in communication will need to be made but also what populations need to be informed so that they can better understand their treatment. Managing big data like this and finding ways to implement it is where tech companies can step in to help with current STD rates and treatments. [READ MORE…]
From “Lake” to Insight: How Federal Agencies Can Get More from Their Big Data Platforms
In this contributed article, Chris Brown, Senior Associate, and David Cunningham of Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, suggests that overcoming data lake obstacles involves a combination of processes, culture, and appropriate technology choices. By employing modern data management platforms and best practices from the outset, agencies can start flipping the 80-20 rule of data science—and start putting the valuable information they collect to work for their missions. [READ MORE…]
“Alexa, Call the Statistician!”
In this special guest feature, Julia Brickell, Executive Managing Director and General Counsel at, H5, believes that the legal profession is on a collision course with artificial intelligence, given AI’s massive potential to disrupt how the law is practiced, and its extraordinary growth. AI’s ability to transform electronic discovery, draw up contracts, analyze judicial bias, and predict legal outcomes has many in the profession calling for the development of standards around how AI is used. [READ MORE…]
Featured Resource
insideBIGDATA Special Report: Healthcare and HPC — Bridging the Gap Through Artificial Intelligence
Will the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) displace the need for traditional physicians and clinicians? It’s a potent question—and one that often sits on the periphery whenever there are discussions around the application of AI within healthcare, and healthcare and HPC. This new insideBIGDATA special report, brought to you by Dell EMC and NVIDIA, is essential reading for anyone looking to explore or expand on the use of AI within the medical industry.
Industry Perspectives
The Power of Data Is Stuck In Silos
In this special guest feature, Geoff Tudor, VP and GM of Cloud Services at Panzura, discusses how data is rapidly spreading across the enterprise, and data islands are forming and living in silos among separate infrastructures and sites. This has caused a major roadblock to business leaders who want to quickly find and mobilize their data, and are left emptying their pockets and drowning in funds to find a solution. [READ MORE…]
3 Ways AI Will Drive the Future of Travel
In this special guest feature, Levi Brackman, Principal Data Scientist at Travelport, talks about the impact of artificial intelligence on consumer shopping behaviors, and provides three ways AI will eventually drive the travel booking experience: first, recognize consumers’ dependence on their own AI within their devices; second, increasing data will lead to compounding intelligence; third, powerful AI capabilities are required to compete in reaching the AI-dependent consumer. [READ MORE…]
Featured from insideHPC
- A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for EveryoneIn this video from the European R Users Meeting, Henrik Bengtsson from the University of California San Francisco presents: A Future for R: Parallel and Distributed Processing in R for Everyone. "The future package is a powerful and elegant cross-platform framework for orchestrating asynchronous computations in R. It's ideal for working with computations that take a long time […]
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Editor’s Choice
The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q1 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…]
4 Major Ways in Which Big Data is Impacting Social Media Marketing
In this contributed article, content and brand strategist Nidhi Dave throws light on the application of big data on social media marketing, examining its current as well as future impact. She offers four major ways in which big data is impacting social media marketing [READ MORE…]
Field Report: TIBCO NOW 2018
I was pleased to be on hand for the 2018 edition of the TIBCO NOW “Innovation at the Edge” conference in Las Vegas on September 4-6. This was my 1st time covering the show for insideBIGDATA, and I was eager to get the pulse of the event because you can tell a lot about the state of a company by attending their global user conference. I wasn’t disappointed! [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…]
