- 5 Ways in Which Big Data Can Help Leverage Customer Data - May 25, 2016.
Every business enterprise realizes the importance of big data but rarely puts the customer data that they possess to good use. Here are few ways enterprises can leverage customer data.
Analytics, Big Data, Data Management, Data Mining
- Meet the 11 Big Data & Data Science Leaders on LinkedIn - May 6, 2016.
In this post, we present a list of popular data science leaders on LinkedIn. Follow these leaders who will keep you in touch with the latest Data Science happenings!
About Gregory Piatetsky, Bernard Marr, Big Data, Data Scientist, DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, Influencers, LinkedIn, Tom Davenport
- 12 Inspiring Women In Data Science, Big Data - Apr 15, 2016.
It’s been well documented that women don’t come close to parity in STEM fields with their counterparts. Could the rise of big data and data science offer women a clearer path to success in technology? Here’s a list of 12 inspiring women who work in big data and data
Big Data, Data Science, InformationWeek, Women
- 100 Active Blogs on Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning - Mar 29, 2016.
Stay on top of your data science skills game! Here’s a list of about 100 most active and interesting blogs on Big Data, Data Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Artificial intelligence.
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Big Data, Blogs, Data Science, Deep Learning, Hadoop, Machine Learning
- How to combat financial fraud by using big data? - Mar 25, 2016.
Financial fraud methods are becoming more sophisticated and the techniques to combat such attacks also need to evolve. Big data has brought with it novel fraud detection and prevention techniques such as behavioral analysis and real-time detection to give fraud fighting techniques a new perspective.
Alibaba, Banking, Big Data, Fraud, Fraud Detection, Fraud Prevention
- What is the influence of Big Data in Medicine? - Mar 14, 2016.
The 360-degree customer view is the idea, that companies can get a complete view of customers by aggregating data from the various touch points that a user. And, big data is helping to materialize this idea, which will revolutionize the healthcare.
Big Data, Customer Analytics, Healthcare
- Big Data Is Driving Your Car - Feb 18, 2016.
Never mind driverless cars! Big Data is already hard at work in every aspect of the automotive industry, including safety, design, marketing and more. We look at where Big Data is having an impact on the cars that we are driving.
Big Data, Cars, IoT
- 4 Reasons Why We Need More Women In Big Data - Feb 10, 2016.
Gender imbalance in the workforce has been highlighted alarmingly during the recent years. Here, we are providing you a couple of reasons, including the inherent advantage and lack of stereotype for role to hire women data scientists.
Big Data, Hiring, Women
- Big Data and Data Science for Security and Fraud Detection - Dec 11, 2015.
We review big data analytics tools and technologies that combine text mining, machine learning and network analysis for security threat prediction, detection and prevention at an early stage.
Big Data, DeZyre, Fraud Detection, Security
- Learning from Hurricanes: Big Data Analytics, Risk, & Data Visualization - Dec 8, 2015.
This year, Florida has experienced its 10th consecutive year without a hurricane, which is longest period without a hurricane strike in modern times. Exploring this is worthy of some examination, as it offers us many lessons in Big Data Analytics, Risk, and Data Visualization.
Big Data, Data Visualization, Russell Walker, Weather
- Career path explained: Big Data Hadoop DEVELOPER to ARCHITECT - Nov 24, 2015.
The path to becoming a Big Data and Hadoop Architect is fraught with major challenges and responsibilities, but here is a handy infographic to help you chart out your path.
Big Data, Big Data Architect, Developer, Hadoop, Simplilearn
- What is the importance of Dark Data in Big Data world? - Nov 20, 2015.
Dark data is a subset of big data, but it constitutes the biggest portion of the total volume of big data collected by organizations in a year. We will discuss about what opportunities this holds for an organization.
Big Data, Dark Data
- Fast Big Data: Apache Flink vs Apache Spark for Streaming Data - Nov 10, 2015.
Real-time stream processing has been gaining momentum in recent past, and major tools which are enabling it are Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Learn with the help of a case study about Data processing, Data Flow, Data management using these tools.
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Apache Spark, Big Data, Flink, Streaming Analytics
- How Big Data is used in Recommendation Systems to change our lives - Oct 30, 2015.
A Recommendation systems have impacted or even redefined our lives in many ways. It works in well-defined, logical phases which are data collection, ratings, and filtering.
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Amazon, Big Data, Kaushik Pal, Recommendations, Recommender Systems
- How big data can help in home health care? - Oct 7, 2015.
Proper home care services can reduce both the chances and the cost of hospitalization and manage illness. Understand what big data promises for the healthcare sector and what are practical hurdles standing between the current solutions.
Big Data, Healthcare, Kaushik Pal
- Big Data Monetization Lessons from Zillow - Sep 14, 2015.
In the current tsunami of “Big Data” every business wants to get value out of the data. Here, we are sharing lessons learned by the new real estate websites who have brought together Big Data sets, home buyers, and home sellers.
Big Data, Data Monetization, Maps, Monetizing, Russell Walker, Zillow
- Big Data Influence on Data Driven Advertising - Aug 31, 2015.
More and more companies relying on big data for their data driven initiatives. In a survey conducted by BlueKai, we are trying to capture what its impact on advertising strategies.
Advertising, Big Data, Kaushik Pal
- Gartner 2015 Hype Cycle: Big Data is Out, Machine Learning is in - Aug 28, 2015.
Which are the most hyped technologies today? Check out Gartner's latest 2015 Hype Cycle Report. Autonomous cars & IoT stay at the peak while big data is losing its prominence. Smart Dust is a new cool technology for the next decade!
Big Data, Citizen Data Scientist, Gartner, Machine Learning
- Poll Results: Where is Big Data? For most, Largest Dataset Analyzed is in laptop-size GB range - Aug 18, 2015.
A majority of data scientists (56%) work in Gigabyte dataset range. We note a small increase in Petabyte (web-scale) data miners, and a decline in Megabyte data miners. US, Australia/NZ, and Asia lead in percentage of Terabyte and Petabyte analysts.
Asia, Australia, Big Data, Datasets, Europe, Largest, Poll, USA
- Cartoon: Big Data and the dog question - Aug 3, 2015.
It used to be that nobody on the internet knew that I was a dog ... New KDnuggets cartoon examines the dog question in the era of Big Data.
Anonymity, Big Data, Cartoon, Dogs, Privacy
- Data is Ugly – Tales of Data Cleaning - Aug 1, 2015.
Whether you want to do business analytics or build the deep learning models, getting correct data and cleansing it appropriately remains the major task. Find out experts opinions on how you can make efficient data cleansing and collection efforts.
Big Data, Data Cleaning, Data Preparation, Data-Driven Business
- Deep Learning and the Triumph of Empiricism - Jul 7, 2015.
Theoretical guarantees are clearly desirable. And yet many of today's best-performing supervised learning algorithms offer none. What explains the gap between theoretical soundness and empirical success?
Big Data, Data Science, Deep Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Zachary Lipton
- Data Science and Big Data: Two very Different Beasts - Jul 6, 2015.
Creating artifact from the ore requires the tools, craftmanship and science. Same is the case of big data and data science, here we present the distinguishing factors between the ore and the artifact.
Big Data, Data Science, Sean McClure
- Exclusive Interview: Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, on Spark, Hadoop, Flink, and Big Data in 2020 - May 22, 2015.
Apache Spark is one the hottest Big Data technologies in 2015. KDnuggets talks to Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, about key things to know about it, why it is not a replacement for Hadoop, how it is better than Flink, and vision for Big Data in 2020.
Apache Spark, Big Data, Databricks, Flink, Hadoop, Matei Zaharia, MLlib, Spark SQL
- Most Viewed Big Data Videos on YouTube - May 9, 2015.
The top Big Data YouTube videos by those like Hortonworks and Kirk D. Borne cover diverse topics including Hadoop, Big Data Trends, Deep Learning, and Big Data Leadership.
Big Data, Cloudera, Deep Learning, Google, Grant Marshall, Hadoop, IBM, Kirk D. Borne, TED, Youtube
- Cartoon: A solution for Data Scientists allergies caused by Big Data - Apr 17, 2015.
With more and more allergies and big trend towards gluten-free everything, new KDnuggets cartoon envisions a possible solution for Data Scientists allergies.
Allergy, Big Data, Cartoon, Data Scientist
- Do We Need More Training Data or More Complex Models? - Mar 23, 2015.
Do we need more training data? Which models will suffer from performance saturation as data grows large? Do we need larger models or more complicated models, and what is the difference?
Big Data, convnet, Generalized Linear Models, K-nearest neighbors, Training Data, Zachary Lipton
- Small Data requires Specialized Deep Learning and Yann LeCun response - Mar 19, 2015.
For industries that have relatively small data sets (less than a petabyte), a Specialized Deep Learning approach based on unsupervised learning and domain knowledge is needed.
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Big Data, Deep Learning, Small Data, Yann LeCun
- IBM Big Data & Analytics Heroes - Feb 26, 2015.
IBM's Big Data & Analytics Heroes include leaders in the field that propel the industry in order to promote thought leadership and progress in Big Data Analytics.
About Gregory Piatetsky, Analytics Leader, Big Data, Big Data Analytics, IBM, Jake Porway, Kirk D. Borne
- 10 things statistics taught us about big data analysis - Feb 10, 2015.
There are 10 ideas in applied statistics are relevant for big data analysis, focusing on prediction accuracy, interactive analysis and more.
Best Practices, Big Data, Overfitting, Statistics
- Top 30 people in Big Data and Analytics - Feb 9, 2015.
Innovation Enterprise has compiled a top 30 list for individuals in big data that have had a large impact on the development or popularity of the industry.
About Gregory Piatetsky, Andy Palmer, Big Data, Big Data Influencers, DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, IE Group, Kirk D. Borne, Paco Nathan, Tom Davenport, Wolfram
- Interview: Eli Collins, Cloudera on Evolution and Future of Big Data Ecosystem - Feb 2, 2015.
We discuss the change in Big Data priorities, risks, Big Data ecosystem, rise of data culture in organizations, challenges, advice and more.
Advice, Big Data, Cloudera, ecosystem, Eli Collins, Strategy, Trends, Vendors
- Top SlideShare Presentations on Big Data, updated - Jan 18, 2015.
REST APIs and crawling offer two different ways to gather big data presentations from SlideShare, but they provide different results and lead to a very different view of the data. We examine why and find a useful data science lesson.
API, Big Data, Presentation, SlideShare
- Differential Privacy: How to make Privacy and Data Mining Compatible - Jan 9, 2015.
Can privacy coexist with machine learning and data mining? Differential privacy allows the learning of general characteristics of populations while guaranteeing the privacy of individual records.
arXiv, Big Data, Cynthia Dwork, Data Mining, Differential Privacy, Zachary Lipton
- Most Popular Slideshare Presentations on Big Data - Nov 28, 2014.
Hadoop, the cloud, and Microsoft Azure are just a few of the many topics covered by the top Big Data SlideShare presentations retrieved from the SlideShare API.
Big Data, Presentation, SlideShare
- Most Popular Slideshare Presentations on Data Science - Nov 25, 2014.
Top SlideShare data science presentations provide a unique view on topics like data science management, using Python and NumPy in your data science project, and leveraging data science for enterprise big data.
API, Big Data, Data Science Skills, Data Science Tutorial, Python, SlideShare
- Cartoon: Halloween Costume for Big Data - Oct 28, 2014.
New KDnuggets cartoon looks at the appropriate Halloween costume for Big Data and its companion, No Privacy.
Big Data, Cartoon, Halloween, Privacy
- Big Data accelerates medical research? Or not? - Oct 26, 2014.
Take a look at how big data in healthcare brings big opportunities, but along with those opportunities come great risk if statistics aren't carefully applied to those large datasets.
Big Data, Healthcare, Overfitting, Research
- Apache Spark: O’Reilly Certification, EU Training, University Program - Sep 26, 2014.
Recent news on Apache Spark includes developer certification from O'Reilly, upcoming training workshops in EU by Databricks, and Spark tutorial events at major universities.
Academics, Apache Spark, Big Data, Certification, Databricks, Paco Nathan, Strata, Training
- Hiring Data Scientists: What to look for? - Sep 9, 2014.
Know key characteristics of what makes up a good data scientist based upon the three authors’ consulting and research experience, having collaborated with many companies world-wide on the topics of big data and analytics.
Analytics, Big Data, Business, Data Mining, Data Scientist, Hiring, Programming, Skills, Statistics
- Most Viewed Data Mining Talks at Videolectures - Sep 9, 2014.
Watch the top 25 most viewed popular data mining lectures on VideoLectures.NET to learn about topics ranging general big-data tutorials to monetizing data mining startups.
Big Data, Data Mining, Data Mining Training, Data Science, Tutorials, Videolectures
- BAT: China’s Three Big Data Leaders - Aug 5, 2014.
We examine the “three big mountains” in Chinese Internet and Big Data industry: Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent (together called BAT), and look into their different strategy and focus.
Alibaba, Baidu, Big Data, China, Liyang Tang, Search Infrastructure, Social Media Analytics, Tencent
- How Xbox, Big Data & Statistical Analysis Can Measure Public Opinion - Jul 11, 2014.
Could the Xbox gaming platform and Big Data hold the key to generating accurate measures of public opinion, such as election polling? A team of statistical scientists think so.
Big Data, Statistics, Survey, Xbox
- CRN 50 Big Data Business Analytics Companies - Jun 25, 2014.
We examine CRN top 50 Big Data Business Analytics companies. They are younger (average age is 10), and 44% are founded since 2010.
Big Data, Business Analytics, Companies, CRN
- Cartoon: Big Data and World Cup Football - Jun 17, 2014.
New KDnuggets Cartoon takes a fresh look on Big Data insights and World Cup 2014 in Soccer. What should a player do when Big Data predicts his behavior?
Big Data, Cartoon, World Cup
- Huge Big Data Poster and Reference - Jun 12, 2014.
A really Big poster "Do You Know Big Data" includes: What it is, Leading tools, What is a Data Scientist, What questions should we ask of databases, Visual techniques, Statistical algorithms, Privacy, and more.
Altamira, Big Data, Bob Gourley, CTOvision, Poster
- Big Data Landscape, v 3.0, analyzed - May 15, 2014.
We analyze the Big Data Landscape and identify the most popular market segments in Analytics, Infrastructure, Applications, Open Source, and Data Sources categories. It is still early - only 4.5% of companies had exits.
Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Data Platform, Infrastructure, Landscape, Open Source, Startups
