Can Online Professional Development Courses Teach Data-Driven Decision Making?
MIT xPRO’s Data Science program is segmented into six modules, each lead by a faculty member with expertise, research and teaching experience in that area. After just seven weeks, learners earn an MIT Professional Certificate in Data Science. This guest post from MIT focuses on whether online professional development courses, like its xPRO Data Science program, are successful in teaching data-driven decision making. [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Employee Productivity Analytics: An Emerging Tech Category
In this special guest feature, Brian Berns, CEO of Knoa Software, discusses how big data solutions have the potential to uncover workflow inefficiencies, process bottlenecks and application usability issues. With employee productivity analytics, there are many benefits that are within the grasp of every enterprise. [READ MORE...]
insideBIGDATA Guide to Data Platforms for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning – Part 5
With AI and DL, storage is cornerstone to handling the deluge of data constantly generated in today’s hyperconnected world. It is a vehicle that captures and shares data to create business value. In this technology guide, insideBIGDATA Guide to Data Platforms for Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, we’ll see how current implementations for AI and DL applications can be deployed using new storage architectures and protocols specifically designed to deliver data with high-throughput, low-latency and maximum concurrency. [READ MORE...]
Global Survey: Maturity of the Technology Spurs Cloud Adoption More than Business Drivers or Culture Change
Business goals are not enough to compel companies to move to the cloud—rather, it is the maturity, flexibility and reliability of cloud technology that are driving companies to increase and expand their adoption, according to the latest report released today by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of a family of open source projects including Cloud Foundry Application Runtime, Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, and Cloud Foundry BOSH. [READ MORE...]
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Industry Perspectives
Making Big Data Small
In this special guest feature, Gabe Batstone, Co-founder and CEO for contextere , suggests that rather than provide workers with as much data as possible, it may be better to make Big Data small. This means harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate actionable insights a worker needs in that moment to complete the task at hand. Making Big Data small, keeping it both consumable and actionable, will empower workers to be more productive, safer and have less equipment downtime. [Read More...]
Top Tips for Refreshing the Information Management Lifecycle
In this special guest feature, Dr. Werner Hopf, SVP Data and Document Solutions at Serrala, suggests that whatever your organization’s information management goals are, CIOs, data owners, and IT departments should consider using the following best practices to refresh your organization’s information management plan, so they are able to retain information safely and securely over its lifecycle. [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2018
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...]
