
Tag: data science
DSS Elevate Virtual Salon Vol 2
ELEVATING WOMEN IN DATA DSSe Virtual is a unique female-focused online conference series that brings together data scientists so they can learn from each other and innovate new solutions. The first edition took place la Read more…
Data Science, ML Platform Leader Board Shuffled
A roster of technology hyper-scalers and a batch of up-and-comers make the latest rankings of the leading data science and AI and machine learning platforms. Market tracker Omdia’s list of AI and ML development plat Read more…
Cloud GPUs Aimed at Data Scientists
Core Scientific, an AI and cloud infrastructure vendor, is teaming with GPU-accelerated analytics specialist SQream Technologies to deliver what the partners tout as a “GPU Cloud for Data Scientists.” The goal of Read more…
MindsDB, AutoML Startup, Gains Seed Funding
The maintainers of an open source framework for automating machine learning projects have raised its profile with a comparatively modest but strategic funding round led by an investor with ties to a string of emerging AI Read more…
Data Science Platforms As a New Force Multiplier
Models matter. Companies that are able to build their businesses around meaningful models generate competitive advantage through better understanding the needs of their customers, their business model, and their ability Read more…
AI in Turbulent Times
In the face of the unprecedented events brought on by COVID-19, one of the key concerns among many data scientists is that their current models could be generating inaccurate or misleading predictions. In DataRobot’s w Read more…
Coursera’s (Machine) Learning Advantage
When Stanford University computer science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng founded Coursera back in 2012, the mission was relatively simple: Use the Internet to massively expand the reach of educational content. Th Read more…
Data Science Fails: Building AI You Can Trust
Industries from insurance and healthcare to banking and retail are aggressively working to integrate AI and machine learning models into their operations to maximize profits, reduce customer churn, operate more efficient Read more…
New Open Source App: Data Science Education
The principles underpinning open source software development that are transforming the digital economy are now being extended to new sectors such as education, where proponents hope to leverage the collaborative approach Read more…
Data Science and ML Platform Market Heats Up
If you’re in the market for data science and machine learning tools, we have great news: The market is absolutely booming in 2020. With a ton of healthy competition, vendors are investing heavily to differentiate their Read more…
Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference Replay
If you’re looking for the replay for the fifth annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference that took place March 2, then you’ve come to the right place. Datanami is pleased to be a media collaborator with the W Read more…
Oracle Sees AI Advancing Finance, Supply Chains
Corporate finance and IT departments along with supply chain managers are the largest benefactors of AI technology, according to an emerging technologies study released this week by Oracle. Separately, Oracle (NYSE: O Read more…
An Enterprise Formula for AI Success
One of the great things about the current wave of AI innovation is the large number of open source tools, technologies, and frameworks. From TensorFlow to Python, Kafka to PyTorch, the we’re in the midst of an explosio Read more…
Kaskada Accelerates ML Workflow with Its Feature Store
There’s a lot of surface area in the typical data science workflow for the purveyors of automation to attack. What moves the needle for the folks at the startup Kaskada is the feature engineering and deployment stage, Read more…
It Takes a (Data Science) Village: How GRMDS Fosters an Open Ecosystem
Openness is one of the hallmarks of modern data science – openness of data, of code, and of methods. By sharing our successes and failures with others, we raise our collective intelligence level beyond what we could ea Read more…
Mobile Coding is a Thing
Distance, or online, learning is growing in popularity as a tool for addressing skills gaps in disciplines such as data science. Among the most popular courses available on these platforms are software coding courses off Read more…
How Academia Could Help Close the Technology Skills Gap
Academia is attractive for a lot of reasons, but it’s a field where it can be extremely challenging to forge a career. That helps to explain why over the last 10 years, ~60% of new physics PhDs end up taking jobs in ar Read more…
Dogged Determination: How Trupanion Pulled AI Across the Finish Line
David Jaw had reason to be excited. As a data scientist at Trupanion, Jaw had just put the finishing touches on the prototype of a machine learning model that could replicate the actions of a human claims adjuster with a Read more…
How ML Helps Solve the Big Data Transform/Mastering Problem
Despite the astounding technological progress in big data analytics, we largely have yet to move past manual techniques for important tasks, such as data transformation and master data management. As data volumes grow, t Read more…
Accelerating AI: Enterprise-Wide Simplification and Deployment on the Horizon
Business use of AI grew 270% over the past four years, according to Gartner, while Deloitte says 62% of respondents to its corporate October 2018 report deployed some form of AI. That’s up 53% from a year ago, but what Read more…