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Neural networks have seen spectacular progress during the last few years and they are now the state of the art in image recognition and automated translation. TensorFlow is a new framework released by Google for numerical computations and neural networks. In this blog post, we are going to demonstrate how Continue Reading
More and more people are entering the data science field everyday, but how have methodologies changed over the past few years? The infographic below courtesy of Platfora provides the following key points: What should modern data science look like? How data scientists allocate their time today, versus three years ago An Continue Reading
2015 has been a year of tremendous growth for Apache Spark. The pace of development is the fastest ever. We went through 4 releases (Spark 1.3 to 1.6) in a single year, and each of them added hundreds of improvements. The number of developers that have contributed code to Spark Continue Reading
Deep Learning terminology can be quite overwhelming to newcomers. This glossary tries to define commonly used terms and link to original references and additional resources to help readers dive deeper into a specific topic. The boundary between what is Deep Learning vs. “general” Machine Learning terminology is quite fuzzy. I Continue Reading
The availability of large data sets presents new opportunities and challenges to organizations of all sizes. So what is Big Data? How can Hadoop help me solve problems in processing large, complex data sets? Data training offerings. In this video expert instructor Bill Appelbe will explain what Hadoop is, actual Continue Reading
As a Big Data recruiter, the speed of change in the industry never ceases to amaze me. I can’t fail to get up in the morning and wonder what the next year (or day) might bring in this ever changing industry, and although I have made eight suggestions for 2015 Continue Reading
A recent article in The Astrophysical Journal reports that NASA has started to use machine learning techniques to understand the properties of stars more quickly. The article states, “New time-domain surveys have begun exploring everything from nearby extrasolar planets to the most distant known stellar explosions, and a veritable zoo Continue Reading
Considering this year’s Fortinet GPC was on a cruise ship that departed out of sunny South Florida, it seemed appropriate to infuse a quasi-Latin flair into a new music video produced by Fortinet’s marketing team. With the help of singer Pitbull’s hit song Fireball, the parody “Firewall” was created and Continue Reading
The transformation of Business Intelligence (BI) from an IT-centric, centralized process to a self-service, decentralized process is clear: According to Gartner, “By 2017, most business users and analysts in organizations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis” (Parenteau et al, 2014). Forrester’s top prediction for BI Continue Reading
As with all predictions, we have to take those with caution because some of them might not turn out to be true. And of course real game-changing innovation often comes out of left-field and takes even the most vigilant of seers by surprise. So, if something earth-shattering happens in the Continue Reading
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