Blogs or Expert Columns
How AI solutions are helping online retail thrive in the new normal
Originally Posted Here How AI solutions are helping online retail thrive in the new normal Aparajeeta Das, CEO of Cloudhiti Inc., explains how integrating AI into online store not only provides a seamless experience for users, but the delivers crucial data insights so you can keep on building your business based on data-driven decision-making. As a result of the pandemic, thousands — if not millions — of retail stores across the globe were forced to embrace an online-only model. In fact, by April 21st, there had been a 146% growth in all online retail [...]
How Chatbots Can Help HR Enhance Employee Engagement
Originally Posted Here How chatbots can help HR enhance employee engagement HR teams could boost employee experience and wellbeing by embracing chatbots, writes ThirdEye Data’s Dj Das. The pandemic has thrown workforces into disarray. From the transition to remote working to increases in job losses, employees across the globe are grappling with uncertainty and stress. It comes as no surprise that 68pc of professionals working remotely reported feeling more burned out in a recent Blind survey, while an Oracle survey found that 76pc of people believe that their companies should be doing more to support [...]
Making the Move From Big Data Services to AI Services
Originally Posted Here Making the Move From Big Data Services to AI Services Today's guest is DJ Das, Founder & CEO of thirdeyedata.ai. DJ speaks to us today about how he got off the ground by starting meetups. He speaks about how he leveraged and grew a network, developed early conversations enough to build his early revenue, team, and base of employees based on earlier projects. He also talks about the pivot from big data into AI and data service-related offerings. Are you interested in starting or growing your own AI Consulting [...]
The three biggest trends in AI and ML right now
Originally Posted Here The three biggest trends in AI and ML right now It’s fair to say that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become two of the biggest commercially applicable digital phenomena over the past decade. Whether it’s within e-commerce chatbots, recruitment matching software or even AI-created music, AI and ML have truly seeped into more industries than we could have ever expected. In fact, AI adoption has advanced so rapidly across sectors that many applications seen as cutting-edge innovations just a few years ago are [...]
Chatbots at the front line of online therapy (Brains Byte Back podcast)
Originally Posted Here Chatbots at the front line of online therapy (Brains Byte Back podcast) Loneliness and isolation is a topic we have covered before on the show, however, given these difficult times, it is now more important than ever to discuss as a society. With everything that has happened this year, many of us can understand what it feels like to be alone, isolated, or even just depressed. But sometimes a simple conversation with someone to discuss how we are feeling can make all the difference. Many of us have [...]
San Francisco Bay Area Shelter In Place Order Adds Channel Uncertainty
Originally Posted Here San Francisco Bay Area Shelter In Place Order Adds Channel Uncertainty Solution providers Monday said a shelter in place order for six counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, the heart of the U.S. tech industry, will severely hamper their ability to conduct business, particularly on the hardware side. "If this goes on too long , will we have [customers] who say, ‘I can’t afford this anymore. We’ve been hit really hard,’?” Steve Neverve, president of Nevtec, a San Jose, Calif.-based MSP in in Santa Clara [...]
Top 10 Big Data Companies in California
Originally Posted Here Top 10 Big Data Companies in California Big data has changed the way organizations plan and execute their processes. Advanced Big Data analytics has its own advantages when it comes to data storage across multiple networks. Despite the success achieved through big data, the need for developing well-managed data environment in individual companies is hard to deny. This is where the big data companies have grown in stature. Big data help the organizations to create winning business model and gain valuable insights for the better decision [...]
The Race Is On: IBM, Google, Microsoft And AWS Aim To Deliver Machine Learning As A Cloud Service
Originally Posted Here The Race Is On: IBM, Google, Microsoft And AWS Aim To Deliver Machine Learning As A Cloud Service Ever since the late 1950s, when pioneering IBM researcher Arthur Samuel trained the world's first self-learning computer to play a mean game of checkers, the future has promised a widespread emergence of intelligent machines. That future is here. Machine learning, the computing methodology Samuel introduced to the world, is now seen as mature, effective and -- thanks to a variety of new offerings -- readily accessible to the [...]
Addressing the increasing demand for data scientists and how to get involved
Originally Posted Here Addressing the increasing demand for data scientists and how to get involved Data science has become a crucial practice for many businesses to increase efficiency and to enhance processes. It has had a profound impact on a variety of areas of society. In fact, data science has been so heavily in demand that it has been ranked the best job in the US for the past three years. However, getting into data science might be tough, initially, especially given the technical requirements of the job, but it certainly proves to be [...]
ThirdEye Data: Data Science Services from a Company That Understands Big Data
Originally Posted Here ThirdEye Data: Data Science Services from a Company That Understands Big Data “The ThirdEye answers your data questions and offer actionable insights, real-world experience and strategic recommendations.” In today’s world – the world of online consumerism data plays a pivotal role. Both large and small companies strive to make the most of their Big Data, the need to derive meaning and maintain strategic agility is critical. Call it knowledge currency, Insight Engine, or Growthware, Big Data is multiplying faster than our predictions and it’s better if [...]
AI for Businesses Sake – How ThirdEye Data plans to do it
Originally Posted Here 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 [...]
TOP 8 BIG DATA ANALYTICS COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA
Originally Posted Here TOP 8 BIG DATA ANALYTICS COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA Big data helps in finding key trends and better decision making as it refers to large amounts of historical data. In social life and modern business, the importance of big data cannot be overstated. Today, big data is influencing our marketing strategies and also changing the way we work. Governments, companies, research institutes, and teams are trying their best to use big data analytics in order to dig deep into the piles of data and ultimately make better [...]
Hybrid Intelligence: ‘Humans Can Never Get Out of the AI Equation’
Originally Posted Here Hybrid Intelligence: ‘Humans Can Never Get Out of the AI Equation’ How do ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) apply to hybrid intelligence and its human-in-the-loop model? AI has been under the radar for years. While an AI is a fast learner that emulates what it’s taught and executes at machine speed, there are concerns like it taking over human jobs completely, inheriting trainer bias and data privacy issues. Hybrid intelligence, a system that keeps humans in the loop, while the AI learns on the job, so [...]
Bringing Big Data to the Masses
Originally Posted Here 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 [...]
Bots For Banking: How Smart Chatbots Can Secure Data And Combat Fraud
Originally Posted Here Bots For Banking: How Smart Chatbots Can Secure Data And Combat Fraud SAN FRANCISCO - 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 [...]
Hacked Again? Here’s How an OSS Anomaly Detection Solution Can Get You Back On Track
Originally Posted Here Hacked Again? Here’s How an OSS Anomaly Detection Solution Can Get You Back On Track There’s not a business out there that wouldn’t want to defend itself against fraudulent activities, hacking attempts, and operations disruptions. And with cases of fraud and cyberattacks on the rise—$16 billion was stolen from 15.4 million U.S. consumers in 2017—businesses need to pay attention to solutions that can help them identify this kind of behavior.Here’s where anomaly detection comes in. Luckily, businesses’ web server logs hold a lot more information than they realize, including vital [...]
Smarter Service, Happier Customers: Why Your Business Needs Cognitive Chatbots
Originally Posted Here Smarter Service, Happier Customers: Why Your Business Needs Cognitive Chatbots 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 [...]
Translating data into a universal language is key to developing a culture around it, says data consulting company
Originally Posted Here Translating data into a universal language is key to developing a culture around it, says data consulting company If employees don’t speak ‘data,’ then data-based solutions will not generate sufficient return on investment for Fortune 500 companies, claims DJ Das, Founder and CEO of ThirdEye data. ThirdEye Data is a data consulting company based in Silicon Valley that uses artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data to build tech solutions for its customers. In this Q&A, Das speaks to The Sociable about data culture, why it’s important, how companies can develop [...]
Helping the Little Guy: The Power of Open Source Software for Startups
Originally Posted Here Helping the Little Guy: The Power of Open Source Software for Startups 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 [...]
The State of Conversational AI and Consumer Trust
Originally Posted Here The State of Conversational AI and Consumer Trust Conversational AI voice technology offers new opportunities to automate everyday responsibilities. Yet, people indicate a lack of trust toward these tools’ abilities to successfully complete tasks. Nearly three-quarters of people are unlikely to trust conversational AI to answer simple calls or emails, but experts say this hesitancy will shift as the technologies become more mainstream, despite security risks. In June 2018, Google unveiled Duplex, a feature of its voice assistant that could call businesses and book reservations. Duplex's lifelike [...]
Top 10 AI Solution Provider of 2018 – Silicon India
Originally Posted Here ThirdEye Rated as Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Solution Provider 2018 ThirdEye Data: The Answer to All Data Challenges Big data is no fad. The world is witnessing a meteoric rise of data today, which is only doubling in volume by the year. As data evolves, every business organization seeks to explore the deluge of information and glean meaningful insights to drive better decision-making and enhance productivity. Despite such potential, enterprises, especially SMBs, fall behind in implementing data-driven processes. The culprit, however, is not their lack of [...]
Chronicle, Alphabet’s Cybersecurity Moonshot, Is Coming To Google Cloud
Originally Posted Here Chronicle, Alphabet's Cybersecurity Moonshot, Is Coming To Google Cloud Spun out of the secretive X division, Chronicle will merge with sister company Google, and its threat detection tools will later be directly integrated into GCP. A "moonshot" cybersecurity company within Google parent Alphabet's portfolio will be merged with Google and its threat-detection technology integrated into Google Cloud, the Internet giant revealed on Thursday. Chronicle was born in and spun out from the secretive X division, another Alphabet subsidiary that's essentially a factory for incubating next-generation technologies [...]
18 DATA SCIENTISTS & SECURITY PROS REVEAL THE MOST COMMON PITFALLS TO DATA DISCOVERY AND CLASSIFICATION
Originally Posted Here 18 Data Scientists & Security Pros Reveal The Most Common Pitfalls To Data Discovery And Classification A data classification process makes it easier to locate and retrieve data, and it's an important process for any data security program, as well as for risk management and compliance. By leveraging tools that can automatically locate and identify your sensitive data, companies can gain a deeper understanding of what data they possess, where it exists within the organization, and how sensitive it is, allowing them to apply the appropriate level of [...]
How predictive analytics can support effective lockdown management
Originally Posted Here How predictive analytics can support effective lockdown management AI-powered predictive analytics solutions can provide crucial insights to law enforcement teams, allowing them to fairly and effectively enforce lockdown restrictions and back up their decision-making with data. Police departments across the globe have been tasked with the challenge of enforcing Covid-19 lockdown measures. In Israel, this has been far from smooth-sailing, with police checkpoints causing huge traffic delays, some areas seeing the illegal reopening of schools, and criticisms emerging of mismanagement across different jurisdictions. Adopting AI-powered predictive [...]
