Category: Data Science

August 23, 2018

Cybersecurity practitioners don’t necessarily think of themselves as Data Scientists – but they should. In fact, most of them are already doing that work, even if they don’t recognize that the term applies to them. Securing the network and protecting […]

August 2, 2018

A data quality expert once told me that vendors providing data quality software solutions should always ensure 100 percent quality data, and if they didn’t, they should be liable for any ensuing issues. I disagreed with that harsh assessment then—and […]

July 24, 2018

Before Google parent Alphabet reported quarterly earnings Monday, the somewhat naïve meme going around was that regulatory scrutiny would zap the advertising leviathan’s performance. True, Alphabet recorded a multi-billion-dollar hit associated with a fine ordered by the European Union that […]

July 20, 2018

In 2012 former Chief Data Scientist of the United States DJ Patil and Babson College Professor Thomson H. Davenport famously declared that the job of Data Scientist would be the “Sexiest job of the 21st Century.” While that may true, […]

July 17, 2018

The big data landscape has exploded in an incredibly short amount of time. It was just in 2013 that the term “big data” was added to the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Fewer than five years later, 2.5 quintillion […]

June 18, 2018

According to a recent press release, “Intellect Design Arena, the world’s first full spectrum Banking and Insurance technology products company, and IBM will jointly deliver digital corporate banking solutions to some of the world’s largest banks on the IBM Cloud. […]

June 14, 2018

I remember when Yves Béhar first showed me the August smart lock. It was years ago, before the product—which replaces the conventional combination of a metal key and mechanical tumbler with an authenticated mobile device and Wi-Fi-connected electronic unit—was announced […]

May 30, 2018

Data has evolved over the years. Complex data structures, unstructured data, real-time processing, growing data volumes, and new varieties of data are all part of the evolution. Platforms have changed as well. “Schema-less,” real-time events, “schema-on-read,” and extract/load/discover/transform (ELDT) are […]

May 23, 2018

The sheer scale of the nefarious crap that litters Facebook is astonishing. As Michal Lev-Ram relates in her new feature on the company, in just the first quarter Facebook found that it had published 837 million instances of “spam, false […]

May 22, 2018

People often think about the internet of things in an industrial or commercial setting, providing sensors and data to a well-defined process or activity. But there’s one fundamental part of our society that can benefit immensely from IoT technologies, one […]

May 7, 2018

While virtually every hospital has implemented a version of an electronic health record (EHR) that tracks the patient journey, most hospital administrators still use the tool in a “pull” manner; they start with something in mind and then look for […]

April 27, 2018

This is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. Pat Gelsinger, the Intel veteran who is CEO of cloud software giant VMWare, […]

April 17, 2018

According to a new press release, “Teramind Inc., a provider of insider threat solutions, today announced a new approach to data loss prevention that will continue to help organizations from healthcare to banking, legal, energy and customer service teams and […]

March 5, 2018

Release 5.1 of Anaconda, the data science and machine learning platform, now includes Visual Studio Code as an IDE. This is part of a wider collaborative effort between Anaconda Inc. and Microsoft. Anaconda is a distribution of the R and […]

February 16, 2018

According to a recent press release, “Revulytics, Inc., a leading provider of software usage analytics for on-premise software, today announced Revulytics™ Data Enrichment, a new service that improves the quality of customer-provided data to accelerate their software license compliance programs […]

February 15, 2018

The industrial world is transforming with the rise of smart industry. Modern production machines and handling equipment have become highly integrated mechatronic systems with a considerable portion of embedded software. The growing abundance of data is a key driver of […]

February 1, 2018

Buying something through an internet portal, for example something as expensive as a car, normally involves two parties who don’t trust each other; a buyer and a seller. The portal is just a broker so either the buyer must transfer […]

December 21, 2017

Of the many use cases Python covers, data analytics has become perhaps the biggest and most significant. The Python ecosystem is loaded with libraries, tools, and applications that make the work of scientific computing and data analysis fast and convenient.But […]

December 21, 2017

Artificial intelligence can generate fresh patterns in data with astonishing speed, efficiency, and verisimilitude. Over the past few years, it has become commonplace for AI to algorithmically generate any object that can be rendered digitally. Increasingly, this application of AI […]

December 15, 2017

When you live, eat, breathe, and code using containers as my team and I do, you often forget that not everyone shares your passion for developing apps using containers. When you inherently understand the speed and added innovation possible through […]