Source – zdnet.com At its GitHub Universe conference this week, GitHub is announcing a series of automated coding features, demonstrating how machine learning and data science can be applied to software development. The new tools will leverage the intelligence aggregated on the online code sharing and development platform over its nearly 10 years in existence, helping developers track Read More
Tag: data science
Source – techcrunch.com he thorny issue of tracking of location data without risking individual privacy is very neatly illustrated via a Freedom of Information (FOI) request asking London’s transport regulator to release the “anonymized” data-set it generated from a four week trial last year when it tracked metro users in the UK capital via wi-fi nodes Read More
Source – itproportal.com It’s a key question for many data scientists – especially those that are new to the field: is Python or R better for data science? For those first venturing into the world of data science, it’s important to master one language first, rather than looking to be a Jack of all trades from Read More
Source – livemint.com New Delhi: Changing customer expectations, falling customer satisfaction, and the promise of lower operating costs are among the major reasons why companies are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots for use as virtual agents or assistants. The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector is clearly taking the lead in India. Consider the case Read More
Source – motherboard.vice.com I could tell you some things about my own career as a an experimental creative writer, about what a relentless diet of JG Ballard can do to the brain of a 20-year-old white male and about how a story about pilots boning during a plane crash might lead to the mass confiscation of Read More
Source – forbes.com The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing, and according to a report by Accenture, it is expected to double economic growth by 2035 with its integration. From simple AI pieces to more complex problem-solving uses, the technology has multiple benefits that can help make employees more productive, efficient and error-free. Using AI as an Read More
Source – lightreading.com Data science techniques have been around for many years and successfully applied in several areas like fraud detection, personalized recommendations, etc. Most recently, these techniques are being leveraged in service provider and telco network operations. The combination of SDN/NFV and data science is becoming a powerful new approach for making networks more reliable Read More
Source – governmentcomputing.com Data Science Accelerator programme offers chance to experiment with different data science techniques and open source software A key data science joint initiative between the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Government Digital Service (GDS) and the Government Office for Science and Civil Service analytical professions is approaching a closing date for applicants. The Data Read More
Source – informationweek.com Three industry leaders took the stage at SAS Analytics Experience and provided broad perspectives on how far we’ve come in analytics over the last 10 years and where we are today. A decade ago the iPhone was a new device and there wasn’t an app for much of anything. Competing on analytics was Read More
Source – ksusentinel.com Kennesaw State has announced a research collaboration with GE Digital to provide students in the Ph.D. Analytics and Data Science program the opportunity to explore advanced data science technologies. Jennifer Priestley, associate dean of the Graduate College and executive director of KSU’s Analytics and Data Science Institute, said the collaboration and the grant that comes with Read More
Source – tvbeurope.com The greatest star turn of this IBC is Hanson Robotics’ Sophia, pushing the frontier of AI and robotic technologies close to human acting roles in movies, and the hosting of chat shows. In preparation for his Tech Talks Keynote today, Dr David Hanson responded first to the use of blushing and lipstick make Read More
Source – fortune.com The combination of huge amounts of personal data on all of us and tools to analyze it can do great good in medical and scientific applications. But the same technologies also threaten the social and political order of our country, critics say. Technology can be “the best and worst of times at the same Read More
Source – techtarget.com A good amount of flexibility has always been required for data professionals. They need even more flexibility today in industries where big data infrastructure is causing equally big changes in business practices. This is sometimes called digital disruption, and it has an effect on how data engineering is evolving. That is the case whether Read More
Source – indiatimes.com When you buy a product from an online marketplace, have you ever wondered how your order gets processed among millions of others? Does it baffle you how some banks use chatbots to solve customer queries based on transaction history, or that financial and portfolio management institutions deploy sentiment analysis and algorithms to consistently Read More
Source – siliconrepublic.com If you want to be a data scientist, the tech world is still rife with opportunities. As with most booming tech sectors, attracting enough talent to fill the demand is important. One way of doing this is to give visibility to the talent that is already there, highlighting the importance of data science Read More
Source – cio.com Until recently, data scientists could design algorithms with the assumption that the data to be explored would be brought together in a single, centralized repository, such as a data lake or a cloud data center. But with the explosion of data and the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), social media, mobility and Read More
Source – forbes.com As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means learning from data; AI is a buzzword. Machine learning lives up to the hype: there are an incredible number of problems that you can solve by providing the right training data Read More
Source – hpcwire.com For about a year the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) has been assembling best practices and open source components around data-driven scientific research to create a rapidly deployable “cross-disciplinary Data CyberInfrastructure” dubbed xDCI. Funded in part by NSF, and quite far along in its first two test cases, xDCI could become a powerful enabler Read More
Source – hindustantimes.com In July 2016, Georgia Tech professor Ashok Goel hired Jill Watson, a teaching assistant for the spring semester. Jill was great at online student interactions, answering questions and was nominated as an outstanding assistant by students. The difference between Jill and other assistants? Jill is a chatbot. Her DNA is based on an Read More
Source – sfchronicle.com In spring 2016, UC Berkeley’s first Foundations of Data Science course attracted around 300 students. This semester, nearly 1,000 have enrolled — and university officials are working to create a data science undergraduate major, the first new major for the College of Letters and Science in at least 16 years. “No program has Read More
Source – cbronline.com It’s safe to say that Python is a pretty popular tool across a whole range of industries and professions, thanks, no doubt, to the programming language’s accessibility, wealth of libraries and frameworks, and of course, its huge community of die-hard devs that claim Python should be the tool of choice for any self-respecting Read More
Source – businessworld.in You must have heard the famous quote, ‘If you don’t know where you are going, then any road will get you there.’ However, in a data driven world where the contention among organizations to get dynamic is getting close with each passing day. Every business organization is peddling up to capture all the Read More
Source – insidebigdata.com Lowering energy consumption, looking for new sources of renewable energy and boosting energy efficiency are all integral Big Data goals to protect the environment as well as to sustain economic growth. Big volumes of data in motion are being increasingly monitored and analyzed in real time, which helps in achieving these goals. A Read More
Source – dataconomy.com Data innovation and technology are a much discussed but rarely successfully implemented in large financial services firms. Despite $480 Billion spent globally in 2016 on financial services IT, the pace of financial innovation from incumbents lags behind FinTech which received a comparatively puny $17 Billion in investment in 2016. What lies behind the discrepancy? We provide a Read More
Source – treehugger.com Apes’ abilities appear to be entirely misunderstood because research has failed to measure them fairly and accurately, according to a new report. I’ve always marveled at how shortsighted humans can be, especially when it comes to other species. We’ve got such a superiority complex that we fail to fully appreciate the remarkableness of Read More
Source – datacenterdynamics.com IT service security has many layers. The IT security layer; firewalls, intrusion detection and access controls. The infrastructure layer; power, network, server health and cooling. And, most important, the people layer. The right people with the right processes, tools and measures to ensure everything else is in working order. Artificial intelligence (AI) will Read More
Source – jaxenter.com DevOps is a way of thinking; it’s an approach, not a specific set of tools. And that’s all well and good – but it only gives you half the picture. If we overstate DevOps as a philosophy or a methodology, then it becomes too easy to forget that the toolchain is everything Read More
Source – techcrunch.com Meltwater, a company originally founded in Norway that provides data to more than 25,000 businesses to track where and how they are mentioned in media and other public platforms, has acquired a startup to double down on how it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to do its job. The company has acquired Algo, a Read More
Source – wired.com EARLIER THIS SUMMER Google engineer James Damoreposted a treatise about gender differences on an internal company message board and was subsequently fired. The memo ignited a firestorm of debate about sex discrimination in Silicon Valley; this followed months of reporting on accusations of harassment at Uber and elsewhere. Sex discrimination and harassment in tech, and in science more broadly, is a Read More