AI is Not a Magic Bullet for Renewables In this special guest feature, Blair Heavey, Chief Executive Officer of WindESCo, suggests that we hear so much about how AI is the next big thing in the energy industry, but in reality, it’s really over-hyped, and is nowhere near the magic bullet that some thought it might be. Many rewewable energy companies are not meeting the … [Read more...] about Video Highlights: Business Analyst or Data Scientist? What Field to Choose If you Want to Launch a Startup in Future
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AI Gets the Glory but ML is Quietly Making Fortunes
When we think about the future of data science, it’s easy to get carried away. For a couple of decades now, if you believe the hype, we’ve been on the verge of a revolution. A revolution in which “Artificial Intelligence” – as a vaguely defined but enormously powerful force – is always on the verge of solving the world’s problems. Or at least make data analysis easier. The … [Read more...] about AI Gets the Glory but ML is Quietly Making Fortunes
How 2020 Made Event Streaming and Management Vital for Future Business Growth and Adaptability
In 2020, businesses were challenged more than ever, with one of the primary lessons being that digitization and cloud adoption are now critical to their survival. Organizations have discovered that to quickly adapt, they must set up old and new systems to be able to react in real-time to changing conditions and exceptional events. Amidst all of the digital transformation … [Read more...] about How 2020 Made Event Streaming and Management Vital for Future Business Growth and Adaptability
No-code in Big Tech: Why Key Players Embraced it in 2020, and How they Can Leverage it in 2021
In this special guest feature, Tal Daskal, CEO and Co-founder of EasySend, discusses the ways that key big tech players embraced no-code in 2020, and how they’ll be able to leverage this disruptive tech trend in 2021 and beyond. EasySend is a SaaS company with a no-code development platform for insurance companies and financial services based in Tel-Aviv, New York, and … [Read more...] about No-code in Big Tech: Why Key Players Embraced it in 2020, and How they Can Leverage it in 2021
Removing Roadblocks: A Closer Look at the Three Biggest Barriers to Relevant, Personalized AI-Powered Search
Consumers expect always-on, frictionless, dynamic and personalized digital experiences. But as it stands, 99 percent of companies not named Amazon or Netflix have struggled to deliver world-class search. Why? Because humans search in messy, unpredictable ways. People use different words to look for the same things – and this doesn’t even take into account the different … [Read more...] about Removing Roadblocks: A Closer Look at the Three Biggest Barriers to Relevant, Personalized AI-Powered Search
Challenges of Predictive Analytics for Law Enforcement
The idea of predictive analytics in policing is certainly nothing new to law enforcement or its critics. Once a simple thought exercise (and the trope behind more than a few science fiction stories), we have come to a point in our technological evolution where certain tools utilized by agencies resemble, to some degree, those seen in stories like The Minority Report. Today, … [Read more...] about Challenges of Predictive Analytics for Law Enforcement
TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for April 2021
COVID and Compliance Shape 2021’s Data Workflow and Forensics Trends In this special guest feature, Bobby Balachandran, CEO, President and Founder of Exterro, discusses how upholding data integrity – the qualities of consistency, accuracy and reliability of digital information – has always been a priority for organizations. It’s not just a job for IT. Maintaining data … [Read more...] about TOP 10 insideBIGDATA Articles for April 2021
“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 4/30/2021
Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, industry partnerships, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning … [Read more...] about “Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 4/30/2021
AI is Not a Magic Bullet for Renewables
In this special guest feature, Blair Heavey, Chief Executive Officer of WindESCo, suggests that we hear so much about how AI is the next big thing in the energy industry, but in reality, it’s really over-hyped, and is nowhere near the magic bullet that some thought it might be. Blair brings with him a long history of success in scaling up companies across a broad range of … [Read more...] about AI is Not a Magic Bullet for Renewables
The Era Of Continuous Intelligence
The primary data challenge (and opportunity) presenting itself to many organizations, whether commercial enterprises, academic institutions or public sector bodies is not one of volume, but of speed. That’s not to say that managing ever-increasing volumes of data isn’t important. Big Data still presents a challenge, but the tools, processes and skills needed to meet that … [Read more...] about The Era Of Continuous Intelligence