Author: Rehan Ijaz
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Can blockchain solve the riddle of big data regulations
Like many of the technological shifts of the past two years, the world of big data has marked a paradigm shift in how information is collected and stored across the world. Not surprisingly, legislation has fallen behind technology in this regard, but it’s aiming to catch up with the latest round of EU regulations,…
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Big Data Visualization: Changing How You See Data
Big data is revolutionizing the way businesses gather and analyze data. Ultimately, it is optimizing the speed and efficiency of the decision making process. While advanced analysis tools bolster the information gathering and analysis of data, purely numerical models can be difficult for anyone who isn’t an IT guru to read. Visualization tools take…
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5 Challenges Brands and Marketing Agencies Face with Data in 2018
The rapid pace of technological innovation and the sudden emergence of Big Data has left a lot of marketers feeling left behind. In less than a generation, the marketing industry has shifted in a way nearly unprecedented in its entire history. It has gone from a largely intuitive or psychological art to being heavily defined…
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Machine Learning Overview
Abstract This article describes the five primary techniques of machine learning and provides some key application summaries. Further articles give more in depth examples of application of each of these techniques. Machine learning trains models on datasets before they are deployed. The training phase can be iterative in nature and this enables models to be…
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Are Companies Ready to Implement GDPR-compliant Data Protection?
Much has been said about the potential onslaught of the European Commission’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. Although the critical survival steps that you’ll need to follow to get compliant have been covered, there’s a big difference between identifying the need and actually addressing it. Are companies truly prepared? If you’re like most businesses,…
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Step by step approach to perform data analysis using Python
So you have decided to learn Python, but you don’t have prior programming experience. So you are confused on where to start, and how much Python to learn. These are some of the common questions a beginner has while getting started with Python(for data centric application). “How long does it take to learn Python” “How much…
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Diversity and Inclusion Key Focus of Data Science in 2018
Women and minorities have been grossly underrepresented in tech and data science fields since the first computer dialed into the phone network using a modem. Barely more than a quarter of Data Science jobs in the United States are currently held by women. And barely 10% of black or Hispanic students in college are…
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Can Predictive Analytics Improve Safety Management at Construction Sites?
The predictive analytics is a relatively “young” branch of the advanced analytics, which has already proved to have immense potential. It uses data obtained from different sources to make predictions about the future. For instance, Amazon already takes the advantage of the predictive analytics’ power by showing customers products they may be interested in. Google…
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Top Business Intelligence (BI) tools in the market
This article aims to list all top BI (Business Intelligence) products available on the market. It should help interested users to compare and select the best solution for their needs. According to the list of best business intelligence tools prepared by experts from FinancesOnline the leading solutions in this category comprise of systems designed to…
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How to make it easier and cheaper to manage your enterprise data in AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the most widely used enterprise cloud data storage system, successfully competing against similar services from the likes of Microsoft and Google. In this article, we look at what AWS offers and outlines how enterprises can cost-effectively match their enterprise data and applications to the right AWS service. Not so…