The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q3 2020
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…]
Featured Stories
Video Highlights: The Soul of a New AI
Joseph Blue is a Customer-Facing Data Scientist at DataRobot and has 20 years of hands-on experience including concentrations in financial services & healthcare. Prior to DataRobot, he built solutions for United Healthcare, HNC Software, ID Analytics and MapR. Currently helping to democratize data science with Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) – one organization, indivisible, with insights and value for all. Joseph Blue was speaking at ODSC Europe 2019 in the presentation below.
Keys to Managing Real Time Data During COVID-19
n this special guest feature, Ben Schein, VP of data curiosity at Domo, draws on his many years of experience with real time data working at Target during the days of Black Friday to the current day where he works to monitor a new COVID-19 tracker. There is something very powerful and culture changing about being connected to your data (and by extension your customer or constituent or patient) in real time.
Research Highlights: ExBERT
In the insideBIGDATA Research Highlights column we take a look at new and upcoming results from the research community for data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our readers need to get a glimpse for technology coming down the pipeline that will make their efforts more strategic and competitive. In this installment we review a new paper: EXBERT: A Visual Analysis Tool to Explore Learned Representations in Transformers Models by researchers from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and Harvard.
Featured Resource
Everything you need to know about Customer Data Platform (CDP)
This whitepaper by HGS Digital on Customer Data Platform Vendor Evaluation provides a detailed look at the 10 broad areas and what questions organizations should ask vendors while evaluating the CDP vendors.
Industry Perspectives
5 Steps to an Effective SMB Analytics Program
In this special guest feature, Christopher Risher, Senior Program Manager at Onepath, discusses the 5 steps SMBs can take to implement a business analytics program. These steps will open up a whole new world of insight into your organization and help you take it to the next level.
Delivering Fast and Effective Chatbot Solutions: Strategies for Success
In this special guest feature, Vikram Khandpur, Chief Product Officer at Sinch, discusses how at the core of its capabilities, chatbots bring to life data-backed communications technology. AI, machine learning, and the world of big data are driving forces behind the future of work. The possibilities of streamlined business operations with automation are endless, and the desire to implement these solutions is becoming a critical component in effective user engagement.
Featured from insideHPC
- Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck SocietyLenovo is installing a Neptune liquid cooled supercomputer at the Max Planck Society, a delivery that began two months ago and is scheduled to be completed early next year. The €20 million project includes a 100,000-core Neptune comprised of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Intel CPUs (unspecified) and Nvidia Tesla A100 GPUs, software and operational support, […]
News from insideHPC
- Call for Papers for In-Memory Computing Summit 2020
- Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society
- Inspur Introduces Leading Designs of A100 Servers for AI and HPC
- The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Rich Brueckner and Mike Bernhardt Talk Exascale and HPC Marketing: How the HPC Community Tells its Story to the World
- Google Unveils 1st Public Cloud VMs using Nvidia Ampere A100 Tensor GPUs
- Reports: TSMC May Commercialize Production of Cerebras-style AI Supercomputing Chips
- GigaOm Radar for Evaluating Data Warehouse Platforms
Editor’s Choice
Hats Over Hearts
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Rich Brueckner. His passing is an unexpected and enormous blow to both his family and the HPC Community. Rich was an institution in the HPC community. You couldn’t go to an event without seeing his red hat bobbing in the crowd, usually trailed by a fast-moving video crew. He’d be darting into booths, conducting interviews, and then speeding away to his next appointment.
What is the Difference Between Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Analytics
In this contributed article, Christopher Rafter, President and COO at Inzata,, writes that in the age of Big Data, you’ll hear a lot of terms tossed around. Three of the most commonly used are “business intelligence,” “data warehousing” and “data analytics.” You may wonder, however, what distinguishes these three concepts from each other so let’s take a look.
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.
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 [READ MORE…]
