Source: rnz.co.nz It can be hard to know how much we should care about our digital footprint – but like it or not, most of us have one. From the first check of the phone in the morning, to the ride in to work, to lunchtime swiping of loyalty cards, we leave a trail of Read More
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Data Mining
Source: forbes.com Marketing and Sales prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other department in enterprises today. In-memory analytics and in-database analytics are the most important to Finance, Marketing, and Sales when it comes to scaling their AI and machine learning modeling and development efforts. R&D’s adoption of AI and machine learning is the Read More
Source: phys.org “I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture.” Could this be the first line of a “Hippocratic Oath” for mathematicians and data Read More
Source: news.mit.edu When Tracy Slatyer faced a crisis of confidence early in her educational career, Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” and a certain fictional janitor at MIT helped to bolster her resolve. Slatyer was 11 when her family moved from Canberra, Australia, to the island nation of Fiji. It was a three-year stay, Read More
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com BEIJING/HONG KONG – Meituan Dianping , a Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing firm, has started building a mapping service, aiming to enter an area currently dominated by Alibaba’s AutoNavi and BaiduMaps. A spokeswoman for Meituan told Reuters the company was working on the project, after it advertised more than a dozen positions on job hunting website Lagou.com on Tuesday Read More
Source: anl.gov Abstract: One of the most promising applications of machine learning to materials research is the development of atomic-scale models that can be used to accelerate the calculation of material properties by orders of magnitude relative to density functional theory with little loss of accuracy. To this end, I will demonstrate how machine learning, Read More
Source: newsday.co.tt THE Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has launched an online page to streamline reporting suspicious financial activities for reporting entities and the public as a whole. At the FIU’s conference room at Tower D, International Waterfront Complex, in Port of Spain, on Friday, director Nigel Stoddard said the increase in the need to inform Read More
Source: searchnetworking.techtarget.com Network traffic across the internet, within data centers and in end-user networks has increased rapidly over time and shows no signs of stopping. While 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or GbE, technology has only been available for a few years, a variety of applications already show a need for even higher data rates. Industry experts expect Read More
Source: telemediaonline.co.uk Ranplan Wireless is collaborating with the University of Warwick on a project funded by Innovate UK’s Geospatial Commission to identify wireless blackspots to support the rollout of 5G and help improve urban and rural coverage. The COCKPIT-5G project will use crowd blackspot intelligence sourcing and social media techniques along with sophisticated real-time natural language processing to curate consumer data and build up an accurate connectivity map of the UK. With the start of the 5G rollout in the UK, new cell sites are being planned to address Read More
Source: portnews24.com AMA Research have recently released a comprehensive study of over 150+ pages on ‘Data Mining Software’ market to meet ever-changing industry conditions that marketers must adjust to strategies & leverage the best results for the company. The study not just provides market size break-up by revenue and volume* for potential countries and important Read More
Source: benefitspro.com Few areas of the corporate world are fraught with the conflicting objectives found in employee health. Company health plans are designed to maintain employee health. Healthy employees are more productive. And generous health coverage bolsters recruitment and retention, a key goal in the zero-employment economy. But benefits are also a nagging cost center. Read More
Source:cnbc.com Joe Lonsdale said on CNBC on Monday that his fellow Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel was “courageous” for speaking out against Alphabet’s Google. “Google is not a patriotic company,” said Lonsdale, also a founding partner of technology investment firm 8VC. Lonsdale was responding to the criticism levied since Thiel on Sunday said the FBI and Read More
Source: news.iastate.edu AMES, Iowa — A team of Iowa State University graduate students beat nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries, bringing home the top prize from the 20th annual Data Mining Cup. The winners were announced July 3 in Berlin. Prudsys AG, a leading European data mining company, sponsors the intelligent-data analysis Read More
Source:- livemint.com BENGALURU: The top unicorns—shorthand for startups with valuations of $1 billion or more—in India are also the most acquisitive. Among other things, it indicates how many of these companies have used mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to scale up rapidly in a short period of time. In contrast, among traditional technology companies in India, such deals are few and far between. Read More
Source:-analyticsindiamag.com Big data analysts need the right tools which empower them to analyse and make robust decisions in an organisation. In this article, Analytics India Magazine lists down 15 top analytical tools that all persons who work with Big Data must use in 2019: 1| Apache Spark Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system which provides Read More
Source:- builtin.com At their core, data scientists have a math and statistics background. Out of this math background, they’re creating advanced analytics. On the extreme end of this applied math, they’re creating machine learning models and artificial intelligence. Just like their software engineering counterparts, data scientists will have to interact with the business side. This includes Read More
Source-analyticsinsight.net Data is definitely priceless. But it is not a cake walk to analyze it as greater things come at a greater cost. With the exponential growth in data, there requires a process to extract meaningful information as conclude to useful insights. Data mining is the process where the discovery of patterns among large sets Read More
Source-itproportal.com Data science can be applied to the hiring process to help human resources work smarter — and be more successful in finding those elusive candidates. Today’s unemployment rate in the U.S. stands at 3.9 per cent. Talent managers, recruiters, and human resource professionals understand that the realities of the current labour market require using Read More
Source – gq-magazine.co.uk cience-fiction guru William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace, famously pointed out that the future is already here – it is just not very evenly distributed. We veer from anticipating a new dawn to prepping for the end of days. But the future we want is up to us and it’s time to Read More
Source – analyticsindiamag.com This is the time when a strong Computer Science background is highly-recommended for budding Machine Learning practitioners. In fact, students are closing the statistics gap with online programs as well. So is it time Indian universities start offering a major in machine learning? ML jobs are booming in India — recent example being Read More
Source – smh.com.au Australia’s top cyber spy says the world needs to think more about risks created by over-reliance on artificial intelligence so that people don’t “sleepwalk” into dependence on machines they don’t actually understand. In an rare public speech, Mike Burgess, Director-General of the Australian Signals Directorate, also said spy agencies around the world – including Read More
Source – propertycasualty360.com In the era of 24-hour news coverage, and in the aftermath of highly publicized catastrophic events including hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorist attacks, insurance policyholders have very little patience for a protracted claims process. At the risk of alienating customers, especially younger policyholders who grew up in a digital age, the insurance industry must adapt Read More
Source – gsmarena.com Among other things, for a smartphone to be bang on trend these days it needs, a tall 18:9 display with minimum bezels (with a notch thrown in for good measure), a superb camera system and Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are buzzwords being adopted and applied throughout our Read More
Source – pcmag.com The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica controversy has triggered Facebook to cancel an advertising tool that pulled data from people’s backgrounds, like whether you own a home or what products you like to buy. “We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories,” Facebook said on Wednesday. “This product enables Read More
Source – phys.org There is growing consensus that with big data comes great opportunity, but also great risk. But these risks are not getting enough political and public attention. One way to better appreciate the risks that come with our big data future is to consider how people are already being negatively affected by uses of it. At Cardiff Read More
Source – techcentral.co.za Not much time passes these days between so-called major advancements in artificial intelligence. Yet researchers are not much closer than they were decades ago to the big goal: actually replicating human intelligence. That’s the most surprising revelation by a team of eminent scholars who just released the first in what is meant to be Read More
Source – yourstory.com Data Science may have become hot in this decade, but its existence can be traced back to more than a couple of decades ago. A lot of academic research took place in data science (data mining) then, but there was no application in the market; it was all theoretical and mathematical. Real change came Read More
Source – manitobacooperator.ca An expedition through published and unpublished studies on neonicotinoid pesticides has led a Guelph research team to find no colony-level risk to honeybees from the seed treatments — if they’re correctly used. The University of Guelph team, led by toxicologist Keith Solomon and adjunct professor Gladys Stephenson, analyzed 64 papers from “open, peer-reviewed Read More
Source – mbtmag.com Salesforce’s Einstein has captured the attention of leaders across verticals, including B2B manufacturers. Launched in September 2016, the artificial intelligence (AI) technology of Einstein has provided breakthrough capabilities for businesses to make smarter, more informed decisions, drive business efficiency and generate increased revenue. For those new to the AI game, Einstein learns from Read More
Source – iotbusinessnews.com Big data refers to the massive volumes of data collecting on everything from internet searches to app usage to IoT devices such as connected wearables. The development of tools able to find the useful pieces of information in this firehose of data and collate it into patterns is likely to impact numerous sectors. One Read More