Category: Big Data
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Top quick wins to boost your data analysis using Python
Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming an increasingly popular tool for data analysis. Its simplicity allows quick learning, so many data scientists choose Python for their professional needs. With the average national salary of Python developers being $92,000, more and more people are interested in learning this programming language. Moreover, the number…
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IT Infrastructure Needs Rise as Big Data Proliferates
Most important need of every business is to find a strategic partner that can help them drive excellent business growth and transformation, instead of remaining a mere supplier of IT capacity. If you need to cater to the challenges of increasing demands while having control on your IT costs and alleviating management headaches, then need…
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Want to Know What Data Mining Will do for Your Business?
Data mining is a process that discovers correlations, anomalies and patterns in large sets of data to predict outcomes. Also referred to as knowledge discovery in databases, it emerged in the 1990s and incorporates three disciplines: artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. With advances in technology, data mining has become an easy and quick…
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10 Powerful, Free Big Data and AI Data Sources
AI relies on powerful data sources to jump start the learning process. These free resources will help grow your analytics database. Data fuels innovation. Without huge chunks of data, artificial intelligence and BI platforms would be useless. But finding data can be tricky. There are three major concerns you need to factor for when analyzing…
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The Data-Driven Hacks You Need Now to Be Proactive (Part 1)
Imagine this. You receive a notification that the nuclear power plant you work in is about to explode. You’re in the plant’s breakroom—dead center in the building. Isn’t it a little too late to receive this news? Chances are, you don’t work in a nuclear power plant. And chances are, you’ll never have to…
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Small Business Security: Protecting Customer Data
In 2015, 2.5 million data security breaches occurred in the UK, 74 percent of which affected small businesses. This 14 percent increase over the number of incidents in 2014 highlights the necessity of establishing strong security measures to keep customer data safe. Get Your Act Together The Data Protection Act of 1998 states specific…
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3 Ways to Close the Big Data Skills Gap from Within
Companies all over the globe are embracing the big data revolution at a staggering pace. The latest data indicates that 53% of companies had adopted big data platforms by the end of 2017. That figure represents a 36% increase over a span of just two years. That giant leap has produced something of a…
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GDPR Drives Real Time Analytics
New reforms under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) started as an attempt to standardize data protection regulations in 2012. The European Union intends to make Europe “fit for the digital age.” It took four years to finalize the agreements and reach a roadmap on how the laws will be enforced. The GDPR presents new…
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5 Lessons Companies Can Learn From Facebook’s Data Privacy Scandal
When news broke that Cambridge Analytica illegally harvested the data of millions of Facebook users who interacted with the former company’s third-party app, the backlash was fierce. The aftermath reveals lessons all companies can learn, regardless of the extent to which they use social media. 1. Delayed Acknowledgements of Wrongdoing Make Things Worse One of…
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Driving Web Sales with Big Data and Personalization
Website personalization and using big data to drive online sales specifically is on the mind of every marketing professional. We have moved from the era of not knowing how to use big data to having way too much data, and having to narrow it down to what we really need out of everything available. What…