Blogs or Expert Columns
The electrification of transport could transform our future – if we are prepared for it
Electric vehicles (EVs) are set to change everything about how energy is consumed and supplied. As a report from the World Economic Forum, Electric Vehicles for Smarter Cities: The Future of Energy and Mobility makes clear, we’re at the start of a mobility revolution. By 2040, more than half of new cars sold in the world will be EVs, with 70% of market share in Europe, and over 50% in China. You may or may not already drive an EV. But sooner or later, you will. Certainly your kids will. Our grandchildren will look back at the gas-guzzler the way we associate [...]
H2O.ai Partners with Wildbook to Help Save Elepahants with Artificial Intelligence
H2O.ai's Sponsorship Helps to Accelerate Wildlife Research and Conservation MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- H2O.ai, the open source leader in AI, in celebration of World Elephant Day, announced it has partnered with Wildbook, provider of the open-source software framework built for wildlife research and conservation projects, with a sponsorship to help accelerate the conservation of endangered elephants with AI. "Wildbook is using deep learning to save elephants. We are excited to partner with Tanya and Wildbook to bring best-in-class AI to conserve threatened species. AI has the potential to uplift us and make us better humans," said Sri Ambati, CEO and [...]
A small team of student AI coders beats Google’s machine-learning code – MIT Technology Review
The success shows that advances in artificial intelligence aren’t the sole domain of elite programmers. Students from Fast.ai, a small organization that runs free machine-learning courses online, just created an AI algorithm that outperforms code from Google’s researchers, according to an important benchmark. Fast.ai’s success is important because it sometimes seems as if only those with huge resources can do advanced AI research. Fast.ai consists of part-time students keen to try their hand at machine learning—and perhaps transition into a career in data science. It rents access to computers in Amazon’s cloud. But Fast.ai’s team built an algorithm that beats [...]
Kick-Ass Customer Service
Think about the last time you flew. When you checked in, did you use a self-service option—like the airline’s website, app, or airport kiosk—to check your bags, choose your seat, and print out your boarding pass? Or did you instead wait in line at the airport to speak with a human being? If you’re like most people, you used the self-service option. Indeed, our data show an overwhelming preference for self-service: Across industries, fully 81% of all customers attempt to take care of matters themselves before reaching out to a live representative. Self-service offers companies a tantalizing opportunity to [...]
ETL on AWS
ETL on AWS Date: August 4, 2018Author: kmandal0 Comments (1) AWS Native ETL Service with AWS Glue Recommended if we need to move data between different AWS services. Use multi-user Zepplin via Glue Build to create PySpark scripts. Set up scheduled Jobs , kick off saved Jobs with Lambdas, and even trigger Jobs with the completion of earlier Jobs, like a work chain. Logs are retained in CloudWatch. Monitoring: The AWS Glue provides status of each job and pushes all notifications to Amazon CloudWatch. You can setup SNS notifications via CloudWatch actions to be informed of job failures or completions. Overall, Glue is great when [...]
Dockerizing Anything and Everything
Dockerizing Anything and Everything You have probably heard about containers and virtualization in your CS classes back in college, and now you hear the ‘cool’ devs at your job talk about Docker (or Vagrant) at the coffee machine. Docker is hotter than hot because it makes it possible to get far more apps running on the same old servers and it also makes it very easy to package and ship programs. First things first. What is Docker and why you need it: To put it simply, Docker is a type of virtualization which is faster and lighter than other VMs [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Analytical Solution Dev for Tech Enterprise
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I work as a senior category manager at a software marketplace. We sell enterprise software as a part of a larger enterprise store or digital channel. My responsibilities include developing go-to markets for the top third-party products sold through our company. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We hired ThirdEye Data to develop our latest customer-ready solution. As part of the go-to-market process, we produce content for various stages of the customer journey. We wanted to build a solution that provides users with [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Data Stack Dev for AI Platform
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I'm the CEO of an AI and analytics products and services company. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We were developing our AI platform and needed to figure out how to design and build the data stack for that. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? They developed the platform from scratch. We worked on Google Cloud and used some Microsoft data technologies which they were very knowledgeable about. They were able to bring in help when it was needed. We were [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – AI Platform Development for Development Bank
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. We’re a multi-lateral bank. Our primary function is to lend money to governments to implement projects both on social and infrastructure projects. I’m responsible for a group who manages innovation and supports the VP sectors within the institution. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning and had an internal project that required us to analyze and find experts within the institution. We were using AI to search the information based on the curriculum of the [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – BI Development Partner for Software Firm
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the senior product marketing manager for a software and cloud services provider. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We needed a larger development team to improve our software prototyping efforts. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? ThirdEye Data creates field assets for our technical sales staff to ramp up on the latest services and technology, use those resources to build appealing products, and confidently pitch the product’s capabilities in addition to the broader ecosystem integration. They develop prototypes for our [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – AI based Scheduling Tool Development for Defense Contractor
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I am a product manager at Innova Systems. We focus on applications for the Department of Defense, primarily for the Navy. We have five products that support squadron readiness, aircrew readiness, aircraft carrier personnel readiness, and a learning management system that supports the aviation squadrons and their tactical postgraduate training. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We needed to develop a scheduling and deployment tool that was easy to modify to roll out a new version of our application to aviation squadrons. SOLUTION [...]
ThirdEye Data Ranked as Top 3 Big Data Analytics 2018 Company
ThirdEye Data Ranked as Top 3 Big Data Company ThirdEye Data is one of the Top Big Data Companies that delivers the full spectrum of Big Data services & solutions at competitive rates leveraging a global workforce. Since 2011, ThirdEye Data has been building end-to-end Big Data solutions for clients worldwide. It leverages Big Data technologies, enriches them with Data Sciences and delivers bigger value to its clients. ThirdEye is based in the Silicon Valley, California and is a one-stop-shop for Data Sciences, Analytics & Engineering services. Our solutions answer our client's data questions and offer actionable insights and strategic recommendations, built [...]
Auto Training and Parameter Tuning for a ScikitLearn based Model for Leads Conversion Prediction
Auto Training and Parameter Tuning for a ScikitLearn based Model for Leads Conversion Prediction This is a sequel to my last blog on CRM leads conversion prediction using Gradient Boosted Trees as implemented in ScikitLearn. The focus of this blog is automatic training and parameter tuning for the model. The implementation is available in my open source project avenir. The auto training logic as used here is independent of any particular supervised learning algorithm and applicable for any learning algorithm. The frame work around ScikitLearn, used here facilitates building predictive models without having to write python code. I will be adding other supervised learning algorithms to this [...]
WEBINAR – Taming of the Chatbots
Taming of the Chatbots - An Insider's Story Enterprises have a new friend that saves them time, effort, and money. Chatbots are being adopted by enterprises in all aspects of their daily business needs. As technologies and terms like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning become everyday vernacular, expectations out of Chatbots are wild and sometimes unrealistic, just as it is with every new technology. You've probably come across blogs, articles, videos, presentations touting how easy it is to develop and launch your own Chatbots. And that's true - developing and launching Chatbots is super easy and hardly [...]
Predicting CRM Lead Conversion with Gradient Boosting using ScikitLearn
Predicting CRM Lead Conversion with Gradient Boosting using ScikitLearn Sales leads are are generally managed and nurtured in CRM systems. It will be nice if we could predict the likelihood of any lead converting to an actual deal. This could be very beneficial in many ways e.g. proactively providing special care for weak leads and for projecting future revenue . In this post we will go over a predictive modeling solution built on Python ScikitLearn Machine Learning Library. We will be using Gradient Boosted Tree(GBT) which is a powerful and popular supervised learning algorithm. During the course of [...]
Taming of the Bots – An Insider’s Story – by Dj Das
Taming of the Bots - An Insider's Story Dj Das will be presenting this topic at the Global Data Science Conference. Enterprises have a new friend that saves them time, efforts and money. Bots are being adopted by enterprises in all aspects of their daily business needs. Expectations are wild and sometimes unrealistic, as to how it happens with every new technology. This session will focus on how to make the Bots work for enterprises, the does and don’ts, the gotchas and oops - irrespective of the technology platform used for building and deploying these Bots. Check out the complete agenda here. [...]
Global Data Science Conference – Free Passes!
ThirdEye is a proud sponsor of Global Data Science Conference that is being held on April 2nd - 4th, 2018 on all industry verticals. The Conference allows practitioners to discuss Data Science through effective use of various data management techniques. This will be a good opportunity to network with attendees and Speakers. Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Agenda: http://www.globalbigdataconference.com/santa-clara/global-data-science-conference/schedule-98.html Confirmed Keynote Speakers include: Deep Learning Article Embedding for Fake News Evaluation (Mike Tamir, Head of Data Science, Uber) TensorFlow Lite: How To Accelerate Your Android And IOS App With AI (Kaz Sato, Lead Developer Evangelist, [...]
ODSC East – Discounted Pricing!
ODSC East - Boston - May 1-4 2018 ThirdEye is pleased to announce its partnership with Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) and announce the ODSC East event in Boston fromMay 1st through May 4th 2018. This year’s 2018 ODSC East brings together the most influential data scientists, practitioners, innovators, and thought leaders in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data. ODSC East showcases the best and the brightest when it comes to Data Science, including many open source data science pioneers. This 4-day event will feature a total of 202 sessions: 93 talks, 63 hands-on workshops, and 36 intense [...]
RedisConf18 – Free Passes!
ThirdEye is pleased to announce RedisConf18 that is happening in SF next month. ThirdEye has some passes to giveaway. Use promo code 'SVBIGDATACLOUD' to register for a FREE conference pass at http://redisconf.com. Here are some of the awesome talks and speakers: BigData, Analytics & Machine Learning (across both days) Redis Streams - Salvatore Sanfillipo, Creator of Redis Video Experience Operational Insights in Real Time – Aditya Vaidya, Oath Inc Large Data Pipelines - Piyush Verma, Oogway.in Time-Series Data in Real-time - TimeSeries Module, Danni Moiseyev, Redis Labs Redis Analytics Use Cases - Leena Joshi, Kyle Davis, Redis Labs 25 Billion Messages Per Day - Jongyeol Choi, LINE+ Corporation Real-time log analytics using [...]
Chat with TEbot – the Big Data Advisor!
ThirdEye Data has launched Syra, a Custom Enterprise Chatbot Development service. As part of the service, we are launching TEbot today, a Big Data Advisor. TEbot answers your questions about Big Data technologies to help you decide on which technologies to use when, why, and how. Chatbots increase site visitors engagement & retention, which results in higher sales conversions. Reach out to us to build your Custom Enterprise Chatbot and watch your business grow! Wanna Build a Chatbot? Related Blogs: ThirdEye Data Ranked Globally as a Top Big Data, BI and B2B Company ThirdEye Data Ranked as Top 3 Big Data Analytics Company ThirdEye Data [...]
Bringing Big Data to the Masses
A true leader does not follow trends, he initiates them. Dj Das, CEO, Third Eye Consulting Services and Solutions personifies this fact. Armed with strong foresight that Big Data technologies would be the next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, he took up the charge to fuel the Big Data fire in the tech world. The world took some time but finally came up to speed with Dj's strong belief in Big Data technologies being the future. Today he is a known evangelist for Big Data; runs a much followed meetup & blog named BigDataCloud, (a not for profit [...]
