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Is your Company Ready for the Big Data Bang
Many entrepreneurs are still confused about how big data operates and how it helps businesses. Well, to put the concept of big data services in simple words, we can say that the processing and mining of the petabytes’ worth information require proper insight and needs to be maintained properly. The valuable information includes customer behavior tracking, supply chain efficiencies and many more. Is Investing in Big Data Services worth a shot? Industry analytics and media have been hyping about Big Data and with the news, most of the small to large scale business are rushing to board with the [...]
Machine Learning – The Beginning of An Era Influencing Every Sector
Machine learning is an inevitable phenomenon nowadays. It is a part of AI and has been influencing our lives in many ways. It is true that this has been prototyped for a long period of time until humans could actually confirm the learning capability of the machines.We can consider the 21st century as the revolutionary period for technology and science. However, the measure for the development of technology has been in the past decade itself. The idea of Artificial Intelligence was coined back in 1950 but it came into use in the 21st century.Machines learn via pattern and that had [...]
Smarter Service, Happier Customers: Why Businesses Should Deploy Cognitive Chatbots
DJ Das Chatbots are everywhere. From your online banking page to takeout restaurant websites, it seems rare nowadays to not see that friendly pop-up in the corner of your screen while browsing the web: “Hello! How can we help?” When the chatbot is capable of handling customer service enquiries, it’s certainly a useful tool for businesses to have. Not least for millennials, who increasingly prefer to interact with chatbots over real-life humans to resolve their queries. In fact, according to Gartner, by 2020, the average person will speak to a chatbot more than they speak to their spouse. Unsurprisingly, the global chatbot market [...]
Building the AI-Powered Organization
Building the AI-Powered Organization Tim Fountaine Brian McCarthy Tamim Saleh FROM THE JULY–AUGUST 2019 ISSUE Artificial intelligence is reshaping business—though not at the blistering pace many assume. True, AI is now guiding decisions on everything from crop harvests to bank loans, and once pie-in-the-sky prospects such as totally automated customer service are on the horizon. The technologies that enable AI, like development platforms and vast processing power and data storage, are advancing rapidly and becoming increasingly affordable. The time seems ripe for companies to capitalize on AI. Indeed, we estimate that AI will add $13 trillion to the global [...]
AI Explosion: How Solution Providers Are Cashing In Big
AI Explosion: How Solution Providers Are Cashing In Big As artificial intelligence gets built into a wide range of products and market segments, savvy solution providers are rapidly scaling their practices across the stack and creating booming profit centers. In just the past few years, artificial intelligence has gone from cool tech to big business, exploding into a multibillion-dollar market teeming with opportunity for solution providers of all stripes. For a wide array of solution providers, including systems integrators, hardware resellers, custom solution consultancies, cloud implementers and MSPs, AI practices have emerged as booming profit centers. “We can see [...]
Microsoft Power Platform update aims to put AI in reach of business users
Microsoft Power Platform update aims to put AI in reach of business users Ron Miller@ron_miller / 2 weeks ago Low code and no code are the latest industry buzzwords, but if vendors can truly abstract away the complexity of difficult tasks like building machine learning models, it could help mainstream technologies that are currently out of reach of most business users. That’s precisely what Microsoft is aiming to do with its latest Power Platform announcements today. The company tried to bring that low-code simplicity to building applications last year when it announced PowerApps. Now it believes by combining PowerApps with Microsoft Flow and its [...]
Government, An Integral Partner For Exploring Artificial Intelligence
Government, An Integral Partner For Exploring Artificial Intelligence On June 24, an upcoming conference will explore the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sectors. AI World Government will gather leaders across government, industry and academia to discuss the challenges and potential solutions of AI in automating our expanding digital world. The event is described as “a comprehensive three-day forum to educate and inform public sector agencies on the strategic and tactical benefits of deploying AI and cognitive technologies.” The topic of AI is garnering attention in government and industry. Research and consulting firm Gartner describes AI as a “technology that [...]
Anatomy of a Streaming Data Engineering Pipeline
Anatomy of a Streaming Data Engineering Pipeline A real-time cybersecurity example using Apache Metron and Apache NiFi Laurence Da LuzFollow Jun 14 Cybersecurity has become a big data problem; driven by the massive number of systems and applications that need to be monitored within an enterprise network, and the need to analyse and action against threats in real-time. Apache Metron is a real-time analytics framework for detecting cyber anomalies at scale, that is built on top of the open-source big data ecosystem. Although Metron focuses directly on Cybersecurity, its architecture and data engineering concepts are general purpose and applicable to [...]
ThirdEye Data Named as a Top Analytics Company 2019 by Clutch
ThirdEye Data Named a Top Analytics Company by Clutch ThirdEye Data is excited to announce that we have been named as a top business services and IT company by Clutch! “These companies provide in-depth expertise for what can be confusing and overwhelming tasks,” said Clutch Business Analyst Jeremy Fishman. “They have helped countless businesses succeed by setting them up with the best technology solutions and skillfully assisting with their business processes.” We are a Silicon Valley based one-stop shop for data sciences, analytics, and engineering services. We leverage AI and machine learning technologies to build higher value technical solutions [...]
Leveraging the Tools That Fuel E-Commerce Growth
E-commerce technologies have been innovating fast. It's no surprise, considering e-commerce in North America grew by 15 percent in 2018, to reach a market value of more than US$500 billion. Today's e-commerce businesses need to stay ahead of the curve if they want to be the consumer's choice, as convenience and relevance remain king. Companies can stand out in this competitive environment by deploying some of the latest technologies that assure their customers receive the highest-quality products and services possible. These include artificial intelligence-driven personalized experiences, augmented reality try-it-out tools, and last mile delivery innovations. Here's a look at how brands [...]
Azure Data Platform End2End
Azure Data Platform End2End Fabio Braga Cloud Solution Architect - Data Platform at Microsoft May I ask you a favour? Please, put your hand up if you ever had a chance to work on a Hadoop or Spark project before in your organisation. Or if you ever worked on a NoSQL project before. Or if you had to scratch your head trying to figure out how to handle temporal analysis of data streams. Or if you used Machine Learning algorithms in your data pipeline? I am inclined to say that not a lot of you raised your hand [...]
ThirdEye Data Founder Dj Das Featured in New Conversational AI Survey Report
ThirdEye Data Founder Dj Das Featured in New Conversational AI Survey Report Consumers indicate distrust toward the abilities of conversational AI tools like Google Duplex, but that trust will likely build as usage increases, according to a new survey report. Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews firm, and Ciklum, a global digital solutions company, conducted a survey of more than 500 people to gauge consumer comfort level with conversational AI. Dj Das, Founder and CEO of ThirdEye Data, provided expert commentary on the data. Distrust of Conversational AI Follows Similar Pattern The survey found that 73% of people are [...]
A Comprehensive Hands-on Guide to Transfer Learning with Real-World Applications in Deep Learning
A Comprehensive Hands-on Guide to Transfer Learning with Real-World Applications in Deep Learning Deep Learning on Steroids with the Power of Knowledge Transfer! Dipanjan (DJ) Sarkar Introduction Humans have an inherent ability to transfer knowledge across tasks. What we acquire as knowledge while learning about one task, we utilize in the same way to solve related tasks. The more related the tasks, the easier it is for us to transfer, or cross-utilize our knowledge. Some simple examples would be, Know how to ride a motorbike ⮫ Learn how to ride a car Know how to play classic piano ⮫ [...]
Viewership Insights: A Final Farewell to ‘Game of Thrones’
Viewership Insights: A Final Farewell to ‘Game of Thrones’ With data from Canvs, Inscape and Tubular Labs Eleanor Semeraro, Analyst and Contributor, TV[R]EV May 21, 2019 An incredible era of television came to an end Sunday night with the series finale of Game of Thrones on HBO. In the wake of millions of fans bidding farewell to Westeros, we wanted to serve up some final viewership insights on a series that’s gone down in pop-culture history. Below, insights on fans’ emotions from Canvs, a look at season eight viewership trends from Inscape and some social video insights via Tubular Labs. (Warning: spoilers below!) GoT is excellent proof [...]
Designing custom navigation for Power BI apps is now available
Designing custom navigation for Power BI apps is now available Lukasz Pawlowski Principal Program Manager We’re excited to announce the release of new app navigation experiences that give reporting teams the power to customize navigation for end users, so they can find content quickly and understand the relationships between different reports and dashboards. We’ve also sprinkled in several important new features to help app authors create supportable apps that delight their users. We’ve started rolling out the new app creation experiences and expect it to reach commercial cloud customers by 5/25/2019. Here’s what a finished app will look like. In this blog post [...]
The Amazing Ways The Ford Motor Company Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
The Amazing Ways The Ford Motor Company Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Bernard Marr Enterprise & Cloud Ford Motor Company, along with General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen, may have started out as automotive manufacturers, but they now refer to themselves as “mobility service” companies. Ford believes “freedom of movement drives human progress.” While it is now a global company, Ford started out more than 100 years ago in Dearborn, Michigan. The company revolutionized manufacturing by introducing the moving assembly line and made car ownership possible for everyday folks and not just the wealthy. Today, the company focuses on [...]
How Artificial Intelligence Is Tracking Sex Traffickers
Machine learning technology is opening up new strategies to find and prosecute the men who profit from the worst of the illegal sex trade “Hey there. You available?” “Yes I am… how long did you want company for?” “Was hoping for an hour, maybe half. Depends.” “Half. 125 hour. 200 donation.” “Gotcha. Can you stay for half hour then?” “You’re not a cop or affiliated with any law enforcement, right?” “Ha. No. You?” In the thrum of texts that flit across cell towers every day, arranging sex from online ads, this was just another exchange. What followed, however, was [...]
605 Expands TV Data Through Deal with Inscape
Analytics company getting viewing information on 20M homesJon Lafayette Mar 27, 2019Data analytics company 605 said it made a deal to get viewing information from Inscape, a subsidiary of Vizio and now can measure audiences behavior based on data from 20 million households across all 201 designated market areas.Inscape uses automatic content recognition technology to measure viewing on about 10.5 million smart TVs.“From a historical standpoint, sample sizes within the industry have been small and consumer behavior is constantly changing, creating a void in measurement that is large and growing,” said Colleen Moraghan, senior VP, data solutions at 605. [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Machine Learning Development for Medical Technology
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the VP of technology at a company that manufactures hardware and software related to medical cannabis use. We have software that’s designed to help people manage chronic pain. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We had a machine learning project that we wanted to get going to see if we could use it as a basis for some of the later machine learning projects that we’d like to do as part of our software platform offering. SOLUTION What was the scope of [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Implementation Partnership with Tech Enterprise
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m a data science thought leader at a technology enterprise. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We needed guidance for the implementation of our project. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? We were building a security systems solution with one of our partners. Using IBM Watson Studio throughout the project, ThirdEye Data installed and set the code and solutions with Kubernetes. What is the team composition? I never worked directly with them on a project. I had many project managers that [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Data Lake Configuration for Media Company
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the manager of enterprise data services for a media company. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We initially had a SQL server business intelligence (BI) stack but found that we needed an enterprise data lake. After identifying the gaps in our team’s capabilities, we brought on ThirdEye Data to help us configure the data lake. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? We decided to leverage AWS as a data lake. Because we wanted to have a persistent cluster for computing, [...]
Accessible Machine Learning through Data Workflow Management
Accessible Machine Learning through Data Workflow Management Jianyong Zhang, Eric Chen, and Sally Lee Machine learning (ML) pervades many aspect of Uber’s business. From responding to customer support tickets, optimizing queries, and forecasting demand, ML provides critical insights for many of our teams. Our teams encountered many different challenges while incorporating ML into Uber’s processes. Some of these challenges, such as picking the right model for a problem space, are core to specific business problems, but the majority of challenges we have seen involve making machine learning easier to access and use. For instance, how do we make data more easily available for model [...]
How is AI transforming Bioinformatics?
We live in a century where access to information is ubiquitous and change is the only constant. Artificial intelligence, once a futuristic concept, is now transforming industries globally. The development of cognitive computing applications with machine learning and deep learning techniques has paved the way for researchers to make major breakthroughs in diverse fields ranging from speech recognition, language translation, and image processing to economics and computational biology.In particular, bioinformatics—the science of analyzing complex biological data using computational methods—has seen significant advancements due to the rise of artificial intelligence. Recent research has enabled computers to analyze polymerase chain reactions and [...]
How A.I. Is Finding New Cures in Old Drugs
Photograph by Roberto Frankenberg for Fortune How A.I. Is Finding New Cures in Old Drugs Pharma startups like Pharnext are deploying machine learning to search for new therapeutic uses for “off patent” medications.By Tiernan Ray In the elegant quiet of the café at the Church of Sweden, a narrow Gothic-style building in Midtown Manhattan, Daniel Cohen is taking a break from explaining genetics. He moves toward the creaky piano positioned near the front door, sits down, and plays a flowing, flawless rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” If human biology is the scientific equivalent of a complicated score, Cohen has learned how to [...]
