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IoT Analytics: A Game Changer for Customer Support

Customer service costs continue to increase, driven by the greater complexity of today’s products, growing compensation costs for personnel, and higher expectations of quality service among customers. Companies may be Read more…

Five Reasons Machine Learning Is Moving to the Cloud

Amazon Web Services turned a lot of heads recently when it launched a machine learning platform aimed at making predictive analytics applications easy to build and run, joining cloud juggernauts Microsoft and Google with Read more…

Schools Get a Leg Up on Terrorists with Big Data

Governments around the world spend billions of dollars each year trying to prevent terrorist attacks, with varying degree of success. When preventative efforts fail, the next best option is to help potential victims prep Read more…

Lavastorm Pushes Analytics Collaboration

An upgraded analytics engine rolled out this week by Lavastorm seeks to deliver greater transparency in how analytics are created as a way to repair what the company argues is a "disjointed" process of creating and shari Read more…

Investors Flock to Retail Analytics

In-store data analytics specialist RetailNext said this week it has secured an additional $125 million in a Series E venture funding to be used for "strategic acquisitions" along with expansion of its operations in North Read more…

Can Amazon Make Machine Learning More Accessible?

First we had IBM Watson Analytics, then Microsoft launched Azure Machine Learning. With last week's launch of Amazon Machine Learning, the e-commerce giant is the latest tech giant to attempt to democratize the developme Read more…

Financial Data Provider Adopts FirstRain Analytics

An unstructured data analytics specialist and a financial information provider are expanding their partnership to leverage social media and other web content to create advanced financial data visualizations for business Read more…

Predictive Analytics Now In Reach Of the Average Enterprise, Forrester Says

The average enterprise is better positioned than ever to take advantage of advanced analytic software, says Forrester Research, which put out its annual power rankings for advanced analytic tool vendors last week. "Go Read more…

Achieve Business Value with Machine Learning

With major companies battling constant cyberattacks and advanced persistent threats from cyber attackers, larger dedicated staffs are currently required to handle cyber espionage issues. Right now, a common problem acros Read more…

Can’t Ignore the Big Data Revolution

A new book titled Big Data Revolution documents the ever-widening impact that big data is having across the business world. "Data is the new intellectual property," the authors write. "It can be harnessed for advantage o Read more…

How Startups Are Using Big Data Tech to Disrupt Markets

Big data has made a dramatic impact on companies all over America, but running big data programs is only one side of the puzzle. After collecting the data, companies need to analyze it. A huge part of analysis is creatin Read more…

A Virtual Reality Lens for Big Data Visualization

Visualization tools such as Tableau and QlikView have become indispensable for exploring and identifying trends hidden within data. But now a company called Space-Time Insight is taking big data visualizations to a new l Read more…

The 3 Key Steps to Building a Predictive App with Machine Learning

Machine learning is the technology that allows businesses to make sense of vast quantities of data, make better decisions, and ultimately bring better services to consumers. From personalized recommendations to fraud det Read more…

The Wild West and Last Frontier of Big Data

We are in the Wild West of big data. The speed of processing keeps getting faster, while the volume of data that can be processed is beyond what could have been imagined just a few years ago. The Last Frontier of big dat Read more…

Outsmarting Wine Snobs with Machine Learning

For most of us, picking good wine is a bit like picking ponies: Everybody has a method, but at the end of the day, the results aren't much better than chance. But one budding wine connoisseur/hacker at a big data analyti Read more…

Driving Analytics into Facilities Management

The world of facilities management is not a particularly advanced one when it comes to information technology, let alone the use of big data. But that's starting to change, particularly with the type of self-service anal Read more…

Why Machine Learning Is A Priority for Andreessen Horowitz in 2015

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are legendary in the Silicon Valley, having invested early in firms like Twitter, Facebook, Box, Skype, and Groupon. So when the Sand Hill Road experts with an eye for picking winners put Read more…

Can Big Data Give Us Bionic Brains?

The rise of big data and analytics promises to transform many aspects of our lives, chief among them how we synthesize data and make decisions. Some theorize that big data will augment our own cognitive capabilities to t Read more…

Predicting Consumer Behavior Drives Growth of Text Analytics

Retailers are getting hip to the latest fashion—using text analytics to predict what consumers are going to do and buy next. According to a new report by Allied Market Research, predictive analytics in the retail se Read more…

The Secret to Generating Value from IoT Data

Over the last 10 years, enterprises have been implementing IoT applications by connecting devices and “things” on their internal network (Intranet) to provide better customer service, reduce costs and more. By applyi Read more…

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