Big data could revolutionize analytics, databases and enterprise IT.
Land Transport Authority dishes out S$18.8 million (US$13.7 million) to deploy a rail management platform that will consolidate its existing tracking systems and use data analytics to monitor and identify potential faults.
With natural disasters picking up in frequency and intensity, the role of NGOs in disaster relief is picking up as well. A key requirement for all NGOs is transparency, and applying data-driven techniques may help.
Data visualization firm appoints former Oracle executive for the top role in the region.
Organizations with sophisticated machine learning systems usually have built them themselves, survey shows.
Google said the updates are designed to better support sophisticated apps and mobile developers.
A young programming language for machine learning is on the rise and could be soon gunning for Python.
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The new rules will be enforced in 18 months, when public and private sector organizations collecting data should be fully compliant.
Chinese internet giant talks up new product releases such as Anti-Bot Service and its datacentre footprint in Asia-Pacific as key differentiators against cloud rivals, Amazon Web Services and Google. Its machine learning specialist also urges need for governments looking to build smart cities, such as Singapore, to ensure its citizens benefit from such initiatives.
Uber's enterprise-facing business is also adding other tools and new integrations for smoother business travel
Company releases version 2.9 of its Unifi Data Platform, with ability to track Tableau projects, workbooks and views through its data catalog. Data stewards can designate trusted data sets; file crawler, filtering and recently-viewed dataset view added .
Samsung Heavy Industries will use a variety of AWS services notably for machine learning and augmented reality.
Despite the hype, ML really is in its infancy according to a just-published survey from O'Reilly. The good news is that those who are furthest along with ML are getting quite cognizant of moral and regulatory hazards, like bias and privacy. The survey results drop hints of drastic changes in store as adoption grows more broad-based.
Two top data scientists share their goals and challenges in analyzing huge datasets to make sense of complex business problems. Business people should read this carefully to gain a better understanding of data science and how it works.
Designing data systems is something few people understand, and it's very hard and costly. But that, too, could be automated, says new research from Harvard, and we're about to start seeing it in real life.
Deluge of data generated by Internet of Things will impact machine learning and the quality of data analysis, driving the need for such devices to get smarter and decide where data should be analysed.
Most of us do not know that we are using chatbots to talk to service agents, so how will we know that AI will be seamlessly interacting in with our future lives?
The endless streams of data generated by applications lends its name to this paradigm, but also brings some hard to deal with requirements to the table: How do you deal with querying semantics and implementation when your data is not finite, what kind of processing can you do on such data, and how do you combine it with data from other sources or feed it to your machine learning pipelines, and do this at production scale?
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
If you want to track sleep and heart health, these apps will get you going.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
This new exhibition at London's Science Museum looks to help people explore the "invisible revolution of big data" and inspire the data scientists of the future.
Computers are smarter than you think, but will they soon think smarter than you? Plenty of big names in science say so...and that it's only a matter of when.
Whether you're in the C-suite of a Fortune 500 tech company or starting the next unicorn in your garage, these 20 tech thinkers have valuable insights you need to hear.
These meddling apps and sneaky strategies help the boss poach your privacy and can even keep you working around the clock.
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
As well as acting as the hub for a grid of scientific institutions around the world, CERN's datacenter has to cope with vast amounts of raw data from its particle physics experiments.
Earlier this month, New Horizons joined the US space agency's many dozens of other far-flung unmanned probes that are already gathering a combined 30 terabytes of data daily from the near and far reaches of our solar system.
There's no better way to put Chef Watson to the test than actually putting on an apron, heading down to the kitchen and taste whatever big data actually has to offer.
BlackBerry has big plans for its QNX unit, which plays in the automotive middleware market. Here's a look at what QNX would do with a Maserati concept vehicle.
Here's a look at how Fortnite approaches analytics and cloud computing.
In a homecoming of sorts, cloud data warehouse pure-play Snowflake's product is no longer an AWS exclusive
Cityhub will allow cities to collect data from buildings, streetlights, cars, factories, CCTV and weather stations to allow municipal governments to set policies and agendas. Read more: https://zd.net/2KFsgbo
The NSW Data Analytics Centre is using Azure to build a machine learning neural network to categorise how the state is spending its AU$30 billion procurement kitty.
Zhe Zhang, manager of Core Big Data at LinkedIn, discusses open source deep learning and artificial intelligence tools used at LinkedIn.
Europe's new privacy regulations are already a success, whether you like it or not.
Paige Bailey, senior cloud developer advocate for Microsoft, talks ML and AI, plus key takeways from PyCon.
Kevin Parker, chairman & CEO of HireVue, discusses utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to objectively assess employment candidates.
Laura Yecies, CEO of SyncThink Inc, discusses using machine learning, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality to evaluate brain health
James England, SVP at Fourth, discusses using artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict restaurant orders and staffing.
Are the challenges of modern day retail solvable with data science? Personal styling service Stitch Fix thinks so. Read more: https://zd.net/2s2DHi8
The Melbourne-based university will be leveraging big data to change the way students and staff interact with its Clayton campus. Read more: https://zd.net/2IezEcD
The leading engine manufacturer is using IoT, AI and Big Data to deliver business benefits for its customers.
IBM's nanoscale analog computers could solve the big-data energy crunch facing traditional architectures.
Project aims to advance personalised medicine using genomics.
Spotfire Mobile Metrics can collate and analyse your BI data and deliver the key metrics needed to monitor business performance direct to a notebook, smartphone or tablet.
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
Displaying images brightly and sharply, this stylish LCD projector is best suited for boardroom presentations. Read our Australian review.
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