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Sep 5, 2017 |
IBM Research is pairing its Jupyter-based Data Science Experience notebook environment with its cloud-based quantum computer, IBM Q, in hopes of encouraging a new class of entrepreneurial user to solve intractable problems that even exceed the capabilities of the best AI systems. Read more…
Aug 31, 2017 |
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question kids around the world are asked a million times a day. Until a few years ago, the odds are good that none of them answered “I want to be a data scientist.” Read more…
Aug 1, 2017 |
That little phone in your pocket or purse is generating a massive amount of data – much more than you probably realize. And thanks to services offered by the phone makers and network providers like Apple and Verizon, it’s easier than ever to capitalize on all that data. Read more…
Jul 21, 2017 |
If you were a data scientist three years ago, you could pretty much write your own ticket. Everybody in the industry, it seemed, either wanted to hire a data scientist, or wanted to be one. Read more…
Jul 20, 2017 |
One of the great things about data science is there are multiple pathways into the field. Some may segue into the profession from “hard sciences” like physics, while others receive Ph.Ds in the discipline after years of university study. Read more…
News In Brief
Aug 31, 2017 |
University researchers have developed a lightweight software tool that enables existing databases to learn from user queries, pinpointing requested data without starting from scratch on every query.
A University of Michigan team said theirs’ Read more…
Aug 16, 2017 |
MapD Technologies, the database and visualization specialist, said it is working with university researchers on leveraging graphics processors to advance geospatial analytics.
The San Francisco-based company is collaborating with the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. Read more…
Jul 12, 2017 |
Microsoft today unveiled Microsoft Research AI, a new research and incubation hub that’s slated to take on some of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenges, including the creation of a general AI, the field’s Holy Grail. Read more…
Jul 6, 2017 |
An arms race is shaping up in the machine-learning sector with the claim by NEC Corp. that its approach based on its vector processor accelerates data processing by more than a factor of 50 compared to the Apache Spark cluster-computing framework. Read more…
Jun 20, 2017 |
Cray took one more step toward the convergence of big data and high performance computing (HPC) today when it announced that it’s adding a full suite of big data and artificial intelligence software to its top-of-the-line XC Series supercomputers. Read more…
This Just In
Sep 13, 2017 |
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 12, 2017 — Snowflake Computing, the only data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced its new cloud deployment of Snowflake in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region. Read more…
Sep 12, 2017 |
HONOLULU, Hawaii, Sept. 11, 2017 – Chaminade University is partnering with universities in Texas and Georgia on a two-year pilot program that trains Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) students for careers in data science, analytics and visualization. Read more…
Sep 8, 2017 |
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 8, 2017 — CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released data analysis which shows that an estimated 8,456,455 residential and commercial properties in Florida are at either “Extreme,” “Very High” or “High” risk of wind damage from Hurricane Irma. Read more…
Sep 8, 2017 |
LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept. 8, 2017 — Impetus Technologies, a big data software products and services company, today announced it was among the select firms that Forrester Research, Inc. Read more…
Sep 8, 2017 |
DUBLIN, Sept. 8, 2017 — The “2017 Big Data Analytics Survey: Big Data Beginning to Dominate but Issues Arising” report has been added to Research and Markets’ Read more…
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