Blogs or Expert Columns
How the Alexa Robot brought internet-based learning to a remote village school in Maharashtra
What happens when a creative and enterprising rural school teacher stumbles upon Alexa? He could have just used it like the rest of us do, but here’s what he did instead. Rarely does one get to chronicle ‘innovation’ stories from ground zero - where you smell the heat and the dust, walk through kachcha roads dotted with sleepy village homes, sweat it out and get your feet dirty, literally. After all, the best of innovation often tends to take place in sanitised research labs and glass offices of global corporations. And thus, it is also the biggest challenge most innovators face [...]
Spark enhancements for elasticity and resiliency on Amazon EMR
Spark enhancements for elasticity and resiliency on Amazon EMR by Udit Mehrotra | on 22 FEB 2019 | in Amazon EMR, AWS Big Data | Permalink | Comments | ShareCustomers take advantage of the elasticity in Amazon EMR to save costs by scaling in clusters when workflows are completed, or when running lighter jobs. This also applies to launching clusters with low-cost Amazon EC2 spot instances.The Automatic Scaling feature in Amazon EMR lets customers dynamically scale clusters in and out, based on cluster usage or other job-related metrics. These features help you use resources efficiently, but they can also cause EC2 instances to shut down in the middle of a running job. This could result in [...]
Managing Uber’s Data Workflows at Scale
At Uber’s scale, thousands of microservices serve millions of rides and deliveries a day, generating more than a hundred petabytes of raw data. Internally, engineering and data teams across the company leverage this data to improve the Uber experience. Application of this data spans several use cases, including calculating more efficient uberPOOL routes and making sure Uber Eats orders are delivered while the food is still hot, real-world events represented by data in our infrastructure. Making this data actionable involves ingestion, transformation, dispersal, and orchestration so that it can be applied widely across areas such as traditional business intelligence, machine [...]
Here’s Why your Business Needs an Anomaly Detection Solution for its Web Server Logs — and Fast
Here’s Why your Business Needs an Anomaly Detection Solution for its Web Server Logs — and Fast In this special guest feature, Dj Das, Founder & CEO of ThirdEye Data, believes that the weblogs on your website probably hold more importance than you realize. They record the intricate details of your site visitors, such as browsing behavior, clicks, and actions, and with this data come vital insights into how the server is responding, visitor actions before conversion, detecting fraudulent activities in real time, and predicting failure probabilities of the hardware infrastructure. So, outliers that skew this information are really not [...]
We must move away from ‘cookie-cutter’ chatbots
We must move away from ‘cookie-cutter’ chatbots Bad chatbots don’t sit well with customers, but ‘intelligent’ ones can be highly effective. It’s no secret that when chatbots are bad, they’re really bad. There’s nothing worse than trying to convey your needs and problems in a chat box, only to be met with irrelevant automated responses. Even entities such as CNN and the Wall Street Journal have struggled to build bots that could understand simple unsubscribe requests from their users. CNN’s bot only understood the request when the word “unsubscribe” was sent on its own, while WSJ’s bot just ignored the request altogether, and continued to bombard its [...]
Bots For Banking: How Smart Chatbots Can Secure Data And Combat Fraud
We are living in an age where convenience, speed, and efficiency are king. So, unsurprisingly, chatbots have taken reign as the preferred method of customer service for many — not least fast-paced professionals that don’t have the time to sit through automated messages or wait on hold for a human operator. In fact, 69 percent of consumers prefer chatbots for quick communication with brands, and Gartner predicted that by 2020, 85 percent of engagement with businesses will be conducted without the consumer ever interacting with another human being. There’s few places that AI-powered chatbots have more potential than in the financial sector. Many of the [...]
LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATIONS IN ASTRONOMY
LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATIONS IN ASTRONOMY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LATEST NEWS by Analytics Insight March 21, 2019 0 comments There is no such talent who could successfully keep up the crucial information and sensitive records produced by today’s physics and astronomy experiments. A radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array stiffly grounded to switch on in the mid-2020s is projected to generate maximum data traffic annually as the entire internet. Maximum count of scientists is trying to grip the help from artificial intelligence. With minimum human contribution, a few major AI systems such as artificial neural networks-computer-simulated networks of neurons that reflect as a function [...]
Expand Your Business in China – Cross Border Connectivity using Alibaba Cloud
Expand Your Business in China - Cross Border Connectivity using Alibaba Cloud Dj D. Hosted by Dj D. and 2 others Details Geographical boundaries are breaking down, cultural walls are coming down, innovation curve is shooting up – thanks to the cloud platforms and the applications that are built on it. Enterprises are adopting cloud platforms by the droves as they seek to benefit from these technical innovations. Alibaba Cloud, though a new entrant in the US market has been a dominant player in China and has been at the helm of these technical innovations for 10+ years. Big Data [...]
Open Source Deep Learning Frameworks and Visual Analytics
Open Source Deep Learning Frameworks and Visual Analytics Posted by Kai Waehner on April 23, 2017 at 9:00am View Blog Deep Learning gets more and more traction. It basically focuses on one section of Machine Learning: Artificial Neural Networks. This article explains why Deep Learning is a game changer in analytics, when to use it, and how Visual Analytics allows business analysts to leverage the analytic models built by a (citizen) data scientist. What is Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks? Deep Learning is the modern buzzword for artificial neural networks, one of many concepts and algorithms in machine learning to [...]
Next-gen revenue cycle to refine value-based care with AI, advanced analytics
Next-gen revenue cycle to refine value-based care with AI, advanced analytics Technology to facilitate a patient's understanding of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket cost for pending services will feature prominently. Follow the money. That's something all healthcare organizations must do, and do well, especially during a period of changing financial models and expectations. Revenue cycle management systems are bread and butter when it comes to what healthcare organizations need in health IT. But the next generation features and functions of revenue cycle management systems may be anything but ordinary, according to experts. For one thing, expect next-generation revenue cycle management systems to [...]
Filter Bots in Google Analytics
Filter Bots in Google Analytics Data is only good as the methods you use to collect it. With Google Analytics you track everything including search bots which isn’t helpful. Search bots crawl every page of your site and could mess up your data. This is especially true if you have low traffic. Luckily, within Google Analytics there's a setting you can check to filter out known search bots. How Much Traffic Do Search Bots Generate According to the 2015 edition of Imperva Incapsula’s Bot Traffic Report: Humans make up 51% of all traffic online Good bots (bots that follow the rules) make up 19% of traffic Bad [...]
Improving Patient Care with Machine Learning At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Improving Patient Care with Machine Learning At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by Dr. Matt Wood | on 04 MAR 2019 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a multi-year, innovative research program on how machine learning can improve patient care, supported by an academic research sponsorship grant from AWS. The Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital will use a broad array of AWS machine learning services to uncover new ways that machine learning technology can enhance clinical care, streamline operations, and eliminate waste, with the goal of improving patient care and quality of life. Improving patient care with machine learning Inefficiencies in hospital [...]
How Deep Learning Will Change Customer Experience
How Deep Learning Will Change Customer Experience Posted by Ronald van Loon on May 7, 2018 at 11:00pm Deep learning is a sub-category within machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is inspired by and based on the model of the human brain to create artificial neural networks for machines. Deep learning will allow machines and devices to function in some ways as humans do. Dr. Rodrigo Agundez of GoDataDriven is co-author of this article and very enthusiastic about the improvements that deep learning can offer. He’s been involved in the data science and analysis field for some time, and is already working on implementing models for practical applications. [...]
Alphabet’s Chronicle finally reveals its cybersecurity moonshot
Get the backstory…instantly Alphabet’s Chronicle finally reveals its cybersecurity moonshot Backstory will help companies keep on top of huge amounts of security information. Last year, Google's parent company Alphabet announced Chronicle, a cybersecurity division spun out of X (previously Google X). Now, Chronicle has launched its first commercial product -- a global telemetry platform called Backstory. According to Chronicle, it's a bit like Google Photos, but for business network security. Speaking to Forbes, Chronicle's CEO Stephen Gillett explains: "You dump everything in Google Photos, they structure it, they recognize faces, they give you themes, they store it in the cloud and [...]
Responsible AI in Practice: Resume Matching
Responsible AI in Practice: Resume Matching Steve Cooper Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics Program at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bias in algorithms is a big topic… it’s a necessary conversation and, as with most important matters, exhibits the full range of emotion and perspectives. The business press and mainstream media presents a consistent, albeit limited, view of the challenge. The Economist notes it as a mega-trend for 2019. It defines “algorithmic bias” as “the worry that when systems are trained using historical data, they will learn and perpetuate the existing biases. To ensure fairness, AI systems need to be better at explaining [...]
ThirdEye Data named by Clutch as a 2019 Top AI Company
ThirdEye Data named by Clutch as a 2019 Top AI Company Since 2010 we’ve helped organizations transform knowledge into strategic and tactical insights for projects involving data science, analytics, and engineering services. Our team has successfully leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning for big data consulting projects. Through our efforts, we’ve been recognized as a leading company in Clutch’s 2019 report, specifically as one of the top machine learning companies and artificial intelligence companies in San Francisco. Clutch is a B2B ratings and reviews company based in the heart of Washington DC committed to connecting businesses of all [...]
Helping the Little Guy: The Power of Open Source Software for Startups
Helping the Little Guy: The Power of Open Source Software for Startups BY DJ DAS ON FEBRUARY 28, 2019 It’s no secret that open source software holds many benefits for businesses looking to reap the rewards of these innovative, collaborative and incidentally free efforts of developers around the world. Even major companies such as Salesforce have opened up their software for developers to test, debug and improve. Other huge players that run on open source software include Netflix and Twitter. In fact, 78 percent of companies run on open source. So, what if I told you these benefits improve exponentially for startups using OSS to launch and scale their [...]
Should your company be open to open sourcing its software?
Should your company be open to open sourcing its software? Developing software can be a long, expensive process for a company, yet there are many advantages to open sourcing, which may seem counterintuitive at first. For Salesforce, sharing means a lot more than caring. In fact, last year, Salesforce announced that it was open sourcing the machine learning technology behind its Einstein AI platform. “Three years ago when we set out to build machine learning capabilities into the Salesforce platform, we learned that building enterprise-scale machine learning systems is even harder,” stated Shubha Nabar, senior director of data science on the Salesforce Einstein team, [...]
ThirdEye Data named as one of the Top Cloud Application Development Companies for 2019
ThirdEye Data named as one of the Top Cloud Application Development Companies for 2019 The businesses integrate cloud computing technology and Big Data Analytics more extensively today to optimize the use of available data in a more profitable manner. Now you can also find the leading Big Data Analytics Service Providers on TopDevelopers. TopDevelopers has finely assessed the capabilities and services of the companies which can help in the growth of businesses and enterprises. Cloud adoption is one of the game-changing trends that the business firms are adopting for its innumerable benefit in terms of, resource management, increased productivity, security, sourcing information, [...]
This AI is so good at writing that its creators won’t let you use it
This AI is so good at writing that its creators won't let you use it By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Updated 2217 GMT (0617 HKT) February 18, 2019 San Francisco (CNN Business)A new artificial intelligence system is so good at composing text that the researchers behind it said they won't release it for fear of how it could be misused. Created by nonprofit AI research company OpenAI (whose backers include Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Microsoft), the text-generating system can write page-long responses to prompts, mimicking everything from fantasy prose to fake celebrity news stories and homework assignments. It builds on an earlier [...]
Domino’s doles out loyalty points for all pizza — including competitors’ — with help of AI
Domino's doles out loyalty points for all pizza — including competitors' — with help of AI Dive Brief: Domino's is launching a loyalty promotion on Feb. 2 that lets consumers redeem points for any pizzas they eat, including those served by competitors, the company announced in a news release. Those interested in participating can download the Domino's app and sign up for a Piece of the Pie Rewards program, which has integrated a new pizza identification feature. The artificial intelligence-powered software, developed internally at Domino's, scans images of pizza and will award points to users through April 28. After 60 points [...]
AI for Businesses Sake – How ThirdEye Data plans to do it
AI for Businesses Sake – How ThirdEye Data plans to do it Big data can be an elusive and complex topic that is quickly becoming ubiquitous in today’s startup world. Quite simply big data refers to a wide range of hardware, software, and services required for processing and analyzing enterprise data that is too large for traditional data processing tools to manage. Dj Das, Founder and CEO of ThirdEye Data However, for the many companies that offer big data services, understanding how they work and what they do can be a little more complex. To understand more about big data services, we [...]
Moving Artificial Intelligence From Pockets Of Brilliance To Mass Industrialization
Moving Artificial Intelligence From Pockets Of Brilliance To Mass Industrialization Joe McKendrick Contributor AI & Big Data I track how technology innovations move markets and careers We've moved past the pilot and experimental stage of artificial intelligence, and for it to succeed in the enterprise, it needs to be industrialized -- capable of delivering results on a large scale. That's the word from Hilary Mason, general manager for machine learning at Cloudera, speaking at the recent AI Summit in New York. (Forbes was a media partner to the event.) The process of "industrializing AI is by taking the value we've proven [...]
The 25 Best Data Visualizations of 2018
The 25 Best Data Visualizations of 2018 The art of making data beautiful is taking the world by storm. Data visualization experts and artists are creating amazing things in the world of data design every single day. Data visualization is not a new phenomenon. Even before it was “cool,” data visualization was an important tool for visualizing data in many different fields. Technically speaking, data visualization encompasses all things data art, infographics, and data dashboards. The range of creativity truly is endless, and we are excited to see how it will keep progressing. What has happened over the last [...]
