New product releases are exciting, but can also come with some amount of confusion; how will the tool you know and love change? Will your workflow need tweaking? And most importantly, how will you...
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Facial Recognition Under Fire in the U.S. Congress
The age of unsupervised tech deployment may be coming to an end. While Amazon stakeholders recently voted not to impede the sale of facial recognition tech over privacy concerns, the U.S. House...
Top 7 Free Resources for Data Scientists
Data Scientists are a passionate and curious bunch, who explore the ecosystem to learn new technologies and best practices but you've only got part of the picture if you don't have all the...
The Impact of GDPR After One Year
Today is GDPR's first birthday, so it's a great opportunity to look at how organizations have adapted in the last year. While most users felt the impact of GDPR in the form of cookie notifications...
How to Activate your Academic Project with Data
We talked to a project team from Georgia Tech with members in the Analytics MS and the Computer Science MS. Shelly Kunkle at Michelin, Melanie Laffin at Capgemini, Katrina Green at Vrbo.com, and ...
McDonald's Turns to AI for a Better Burger
While Burger King may still be poking fun at AI following their robot commercials last year, other burger titans embrace AI as the next step in their evolution. This year, Wendy’s announced that...
Healthcare Analytics from the Pros
Medicine is always evolving, but healthcare as an industry struggles to incorporate data analytics into their workflows. We sat down with a crew of expert researchers, data scientists, and...
Top 13 Data Science Resources for Analysts
Analysts are eager to dive into new challenges, but you've only got part of the picture if you don't have all the information necessary to understand new industries and technologies. That's why we...
Interview with CDO Club Founder, David Mathison
Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are taking the data world by storm, but their role is relatively new, and subsequently, there's not much established wisdom on how to be effective in this role.
How to Determine the Value of Your Data Initiatives
Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) on a business project is a necessary evil. On the one hand, you need ROI to determine the most impactful ways of spending your human and financial...
Can AI Actually Be an Objective Judge?
The small nation of Estonia bet on the Internet when it was founded in 1991 and has since been a strong defender of digital technologies and internet connectivity as a universal right and tool for...
Insights from Data Professionals: Challenges & Misconceptions
Data science is a team sport that needs to be collaborative to be successful, but data leaders and practitioners often disagree on where exactly responsibility for data quality and data science...
Introducing Dataiku 5.1: Here's The Inside Scoop
Dataiku is always evolving and improving to better help our users, and the release of Dataiku 5.1 is no different, helping users collaborate and leverage data to drive success.
Why You Should Care About the Data Revolution
More than 90 percent of the data that exists was produced in the last two years, and we’re generating 2.5 quintillion more bytes every day. The Data Revolution is here, regardless of how prepared...
Choosing a Valuable Data POC
POCs often feel like a gamble. You're testing the boundaries of your business's technological capacity and your ability to change at the same time. If your POC is an anomaly or you're unprepared...
How Tinder Ensures You Can't Help Falling in Love
Dating apps are changing the ways we meet new romantic partners. Whether you’ve succumbed begrudgingly or gleefully, millennials on average spend 10 hours a week swiping and chatting on online...
Tackling the Cold Start Problem for Recommendation Engines
I recently moved to New York City, a true abundance of riches. I wanted to find “my coffee shop,” but sampling different locales is exhausting and disheartening. I cannot fathom trying a new cafe...
Super Bowl Beer Recommendation Engines
The Super Bowl has a lot of traditions: great ads, good comfort food, and if you’re unlucky, a free cab home. But there is an important question that is likely to impact your overall happiness and...
Go from Data-Driven to Insights-Driven
The road from a pile of data to business insights and from insights to action is paved with good intentions, but often learning things from data takes excessive time and energy. More often than...
How to Hire for Technical, Data-Centric Roles
Unemployment is low, and the demand for skilled workers is high in many industries. That means top tech talent is more in-demand than ever, and 87% of hiring managers find it difficult to get the...
