As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars THAT a computer program can repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a complex board game, is a coup for the fast-moving field of artificial intelligence (AI). Another high-stakes game, however, is taking place behind the scenes, as firms compete to
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The use of wireless technology for asset tracking has taken off over the last decade. Consumer retail was the first industry to adopt this technology for location services by tagging product pallets with radio frequency ID (RFID) tags....
The reason for Hadoop’s success in the banking and finance domain is its ability to address various issues faced by the financial industry at minimal cost and time. Despite the various benefits of Hadoop, to apply it...
More organizations than ever before are putting the right data on the right platform for the right reason. This new level of data efficiency greatly reduces – and, in the long run, may ultimately eliminate – the...
Big Data analytics is now being applied at every stage of the retail process – working out what the popular products will be by predicting trends, forecasting where the demand will be for those products, optimizing pricing...
This Newsweek article, originally published in Newsweek’s opinion section and excerpted here, resulted from the author’s research for a new extended sidebar on the topic that will appear in the forthcoming Revised and Updated, paperback edition of...
We have executed a multitude of data science projects in the manufacturing vertical. While most of them were done without the help of big data tools, we think most of them will require such capabilities as we expand the...
Could text analytics be the unsung hero of big data? Text analytics mines reams of often ephemeral, unstructured data — from a voice recording of a customer call to emails or a Tweet — for meaningful insights...
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