Tag: data science

September 27, 2021

It turns out the best way to do machine learning (ML) is sometimes to not do any machine learning at all. In fact, according to Amazon Applied Scientist Eugene Yan, “The first rule of machine learning [is to] start without […]

August 24, 2021

As analyst and journalist Bernard Marr put it, “Without data scientists on staff or available to interpret data and turn the intel into solid business activity, the benefits of data could remain unlocked.” Augmented analytics promises to improve the ability […]

August 19, 2021

Data curation is highly focused on maintaining and managing metadata, and not the database itself. Consequently, much of data curation involves such things as good communications and the usage popularity of services or articles. Data curators not only create, manage, […]

August 6, 2021

The 21st century has been characterized by the exponential growth of disruptive technology and its impact in multiple industry sectors – from manufacturing, banking, and finance to health care and retail. This has been accompanied by a concurrent data explosion, […]

August 3, 2021

Data scientist may be one of the sexiest jobs of our century, as Harvard Business Review opines, but it sure does involve a lot of unsexy, manual labor. According to Anaconda’s 2021 State of Data Science survey, survey respondents said […]

August 3, 2021

Expert’s ears immediately perk up upon attending a talk about how to get big insights from analytics. After all, analytics has become the new hot topic of the day. However, asked Nipa Basu, during her keynote presentation The Future of […]

August 2, 2021

Data scientist may be one of the sexiest jobs of our century, as Harvard Business Review opines, but it sure does involve a lot of unsexy, manual labor. According to Anaconda’s 2021 State of Data Science survey, survey respondents said […]

July 22, 2021

Industries from energy and retail to transportation and finance today rely on time series forecasting for projecting product demand, resource allocation, financial performance, predictive maintenance, and countless other applications. Despite the potential of time series forecasting to transform business models […]

June 22, 2021

Data science rarely fails to draw interest from IT and business leaders alike these days. But it does fail. In fact, data science initiatives, which leverage scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and technology systems to extract a range of insights from […]

June 21, 2021

Building an accurate, fast, and performant model founded upon strong Data Quality standards is no easy task. Taking the model into production with governance workflows and monitoring for sustainability is even more challenging. Finally, ensuring the model is explainable, transparent, […]

June 3, 2021

First and foremost, what, exactly, is Data Science? Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that uses processes, algorithms, and systems to obtain various insights coming from both structured and unstructured data. It is related to data mining, machine learning, and […]

June 2, 2021

Data Science is a combination of scientific disciplines “to build predictive models that explore data content patterns,” according to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBoK). Data Science, formerly known as applied statistics: “Integrates methods from mathematical, statistical, computer science, […]

May 27, 2021

Business leaders at every level see the value of using artificial intelligence, but using AI well is where the true value lies. And the stakes are high. According to a Deloitte survey released last summer, 61% of companies expect AI […]

May 24, 2021

Nestled between multi-experience AR/VR and human augmentation on Gartner’s top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020, data democratization isn’t the topic your kids will be asking about when you pick them up from school – but it may be the […]

April 29, 2021

Michael Stonebraker, winner of the Turing Award 2014, has been quoted as saying: “The change will come when business analysts who work with SQL on large amounts of data give way to data scientists, which will involve more sophisticated analysis, […]

April 28, 2021

Data. I find it somewhat astounding that four little letters are having such a profound impact on our social, political, and corporate worlds. Data is quickly becoming the world’s currency, which puts real pressure on CIOs to develop a high […]

April 9, 2021

A complete time series analysis application covers the steps in a Data Science cycle from accessing to transforming, modeling, evaluating, and deploying time series data. However, for time series data the specific tasks in these steps differ in comparison to […]

April 5, 2021

It is estimated that by the end of 2020, there were approximately 40 zettabytes (40 trillion gigabytes) of data in the world. If it feels a bit difficult to wrap your head around that number, don’t worry – you are […]

April 2, 2021

When Maximilien Robespierre first uttered the now famous phrase “liberté, equalité, fraternité,” during the French Revolution, the concept of data democratization didn’t yet exist. In Robespierre’s speech, the phrase was intended to unite and inspire French revolutionaries with the three […]

March 25, 2021

It’s clear that there is considerable recent market movement towards self-service business intelligence (SSBI) in the numerous vendor offerings available. There is also a growing concern among the Data Science community that ordinary business users may misunderstand or misinterpret the […]