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Easily Choose Between On-premises Data, Colocation & Cloud
When it comes to data storage and management, it is true that you have options. You can go for on-premise data storage and management, use Colocation services or a cloud services provider. Each of these has its own advantages and disadvantages. The choice you make will be greatly influenced by your own business needs. It…
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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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How Big Data Can Help Protect Against Cyber Security Breaches
Growing up, we’ve been told to never give out your social security number, and to keep important details like banking information or your driver’s license number private. We’re told this because there’s always a risk of identity theft and other unfortunate scenarios. This may have been an easy task to do 15 or 20…
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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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The History of Big Data
If you look at any reputable technology website today, you will find that a lot of these websites will be writing about something called Big Data. Most of these articles which you will read will make use of the term and then tell you how wonderful this “new” technology is and how it can make…
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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…
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