The Multiple Faces of Digital Twins

Digital twins are emerging as a hot technology, particularly among manufacturers and companies involved with the Industrial Internet of Things. Depending on the use cases, though, customers may opt for one type of digita Read more…

Predictive Maintenance Drives Big Gains in Real World

Nobody likes doing work that isn’t needed, since it consumes time and money with no discernable return. In an ideal world, we would perform the minimum amount of maintenance required to maximize performance or uptime. Read more…

Is Python Strangling R to Death?

As programming languages go, there's no denying that Python is hot. Originally created as a general-purpose scripting language, Python somehow became the most popular language for data science. But is Python's fame comin Read more…

Which Programming Language Is Best for Big Data?

Nothing is quite so personal for programmers as what language they use. Why a data scientist, engineer, or application developer picks one over the other has as much to do with personal preference and their employers' IT Read more…

Taking the Data Scientist Out of Data Science

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. But today, thanks to a conflue Read more…

Why Data Science is a Team Sport at AOL

As the world's fifth largest digital advertising network, AOL chews through a lot of data. That's not surprising. What may surprise you, however, is the unconventional way that the company goes about assembling its data Read more…

Elusive Seizure Signal the Subject of Kaggle Competition

Epilepsy is a debilitating neurological disease that impacts the lives of 1 to 2% of the world's population, who generally have no idea when their next seizure will happen. Medical researchers who have been stumped so fa Read more…

LSU Taps Visualization Toolsets

Today, VSG has announced that Louisiana State University has agreed to the licensing of the company’s Avizo big data visualization software to provide sophisticated visualizations for the study of 3D imaging and its uses across the broader spectrum.... Read more…