Big data could revolutionize analytics, databases and enterprise IT.
At nearly 20 years old, Overstock.com has been able to parse through mountains of data to get a 10,000-foot view of customers, as well as a granular understanding of shopping habits.
Data lakes were built for big data and batch processing, but AI and machine learning models need more flow and third party connections. Enter the data hub concept that'll likely pick up steam.
Chinese e-commerce giant taps its existing network to introduce parcel delivery service across China, enabling consumers to send packages using its mobile app.
Despite huge budgets and exposure, the brands we expect to top the charts right now - do not - according to a new social ranking
Apache Kafka is great and all, but it's an early adopter thing, goes the conventional wisdom. Jay Kreps, Kafka co-creator and Confluent CEO, digresses. Mainstream adoption is happening, and it's happening now, he says, while also commenting on latest industry trends.
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Many businesses are making use of IoT devices these days--but does an IoT implementation make financial sense for your company? To help you decide, this handy tool will enable you to calculate the total...
MongoDB is transitioning to a new Server-Side Public License (SSPL) that seeks to plug the gaps with cloud-based services. Why did MongoDB need the new license, and will it avoid the uproar that occurred when Redis Labs went to the Commons Clause?
Matei Zaharia, Apache Spark co-creator and Databricks CTO, talks about adoption patterns, data engineering and data science, using and extending standards, and the next wave of innovation in machine learning: Distribution.
Finnish retailer S-Group opens up its data analytics so customers can see what they spend by product type.
The data warehouse-as-a-service provider has been on a tear raising capital and going multi-cloud.
Self-driving cars need to process a lot of data in real-time and that's a potential safety issue because of latency problems with wireless networks
To be operational in January 2019, the new security operations centre (SOC) will be one of eight facilities worldwide and the first to showcase user and entity behavioural analytics to identify insider threats.
Latter-day BI darling Looker introduces version 6 of its eponymous product at its Join 2018 conference at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. The new release heralds the addition of new features, new apps and new connectivity.
New open source libraries from Nvidia provide GPU acceleration of data analytics an machine learning. Company claims 50x speed-ups over CPU-only implementations.
Google's cloud data warehouse service to be deployed across the globe; its GIS features reach the beta milestone.
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
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.
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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