As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to look forward at what’s ahead in the wide world of data science. While last year was the year that the idea of deep learning really began to make its way into...
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Black Friday Is Not Dead, but Retailers Might Want it to Be
As we launch into the holiday season, publications - Forbes, Business Insider, The Washington Post, just to name a few- are rife with claims that Black Friday is dead. While this claim is...
Small Step for Piccadilly Circus, Giant Leap for AI and Advertising
Today, Piccadilly Circus in London is alight once again, now equipped with so-called “super billboards,” bringing the advances of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in...
Equifax: Wishing for GDPR, Now, Everywhere
For anyone affected by the Equifax data breach (which is to say most adult Americans), it’s been a long 10-ish days of following the latest news, waiting on customer service hold, website errors, ...
Some Recommendations on Recommendation Engines
Today, recommendation engines are ubiquitous. While some are easy to spot, featured in a nice neat “Recommended for You” section, so many more lurk behind the scenes. In fact, it’s entirely likely...
Dataiku Series B: Data Science for Everyone
Since the very beginning, part of the Dataiku mission has been to bring together the data community both within our product and out in the world. Today, we’re proud to announce a $28M Series B...
Big Data: Health Care’s Knight in Shining Armor?
For years, people have been talking about big data’s potential to change health care, particularly in the United States. But with days growing shorter again, the end of the year looms closer, and...
How to Choose Your First Data Project - 5 Considerations
You’ve heard about systems of intelligence, your're collecting lots of data, and you’re ready to start getting value from it. You’re well versed in the seven steps to complete a data project. The...
Systems of Intelligence: A Strategic New Line of Defense for the Enterprise
Enterprises today collect more data than ever before, yet several studies and analysts (here’s just one example) since the advent and proliferation of big data have shown that businesses aren’t...
Q&A with Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau on Data Governance and Machine Learning
When it comes to being a data-driven company, it's usually not the data itself that's a problem - most enterprises have a wealth of it available. Instead, it's organization and being able to pull...
To Predictive Maintenance and Beyond with Second-Order Analytics
With many types of predictive analytics strategies, just making a prediction often isn’t enough (or it isn’t the end goal); value really comes in the decisions that follow that prediction. But...
Some Churners Gonna Churn (Churn, Churn, Churn, Churn)
So you’ve created a churn prediction model, and you know which customers are likely to leave you. Now it’s time to accept the facts: some churners are going to churn no matter what you do. What...
Practical Steps to GDPR Compliance: Map, Then Tackle
The enforcement period of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is less than a year away. Given the volume and complexity of big data in today’s enterprises, preparations should already...
Big Data is the Big News in Amazon + Whole Foods Deal
There’s no question that Amazon has vaulted its way to the top of the retail world because, at its core, it’s not a retail business at all - it’s in the business of data.
3 Concrete Ways to Remove Barriers and Unlock a Company-Wide Data Culture
In today’s landscape, thanks partially to the changing sentiments from executives but also to the need to keep up with competition, everyone across an organization - no matter what team (s)he’s a...
How Cutting-Edge Media Organizations Leverage Advanced Analytics
When it comes to industries best poised for big changes with the big data wave, content providers - including all types of news media - have a lot to gain and a relatively straightforward path to...
Incorporating Twitter (And Other Social) Data into Your Big Data Strategy
Data from social networks, particularly Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Foursquare, and Meetup, is a trove of valuable insight into the mentality, behaviors, and preferences of consumers....
GDPR: Challenges and Strategies for Compliance
Chances are you’ve already seen quite a bit of buzz surrounding the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially given that we’re just about one year away from the enforcement date...
The Evolution of the Dataiku Learn Portal
In many ways, companies today approach their product help sections the same way they approach data strategy: we’ll just stick it over here in this place, we’ll keep adding lots of stuff to it, and...
Data Science Tools: What and Why?
Most companies wouldn’t consider running their business without providing a customer relationship manager (CRM) for their sales and support teams, a recruiting tool for human resources teams, or a...
