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Urge to merge: Breaking tech and talent silos for data-driven business
What does a data-driven business look like? Is it endless lines of code and algorithms running on cloud infrastructure, sending signals back to a predictive analytics lab? Is it a huddle of Ph.D. data scientists poring over graphs that no one else can understand? Both experts and technologies have a place in it, but relying ...
Experts place bets on software vs. scientists in big data profits race
Big data is flooding into companies faster than they can figure out what to do with it. Hungry as they are to monetize it, many are failing. Will new technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning solve the problem with do-it-yourself data science for regular folks? Or, will universities have to turn out a whole ...
Experts get down and dirty on ‘AI washing’ and data-driven business
It seems businesses these days are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence to finally make bank from big data — and this hasn’t escaped the notice of software vendors. They’re stamping AI on new products with such repetitive thuds, one can easily guess the puff inside the packaging. Knowing what AI can and can’t do could help ...
‘Thick data’ sees the market future when big data can’t
Data analytics is a numbers game, right? Adding more data points solves inaccurate algorithm outputs. Actually, no. Outputs will not predict human behavior until inputs are as complex, unexpected and sometimes as contradictory as humans themselves. “Customers are really the most unpredictable, the most unknown, and the most difficult-to-quantify thing for any business,” said Tricia Wang (pictured), ethnographer ...
Ignore gender to close gender gap? This tech company did
Under pressure to prove sexism stereotypes wrong, some tech companies grasp for any means to add female employees. But copying generic best practices may yield flimsy results; for example, a quota for women in tech only goes so far when a company pads it with human resources hires. Plunging deep into employee data, on the ...
Three-layer IoT edge system cake: Add specialized hardware, bake at low latency
“Internet of things” edge devices are causing quite a few headaches for technology vendors and businesses alike. Their whole selling point — intelligent, real-time decision-making at the edge of computing networks — is defeated by the latency of moving data back and forth to a cloud or physical data center for analytics. But edge devices ...
Artificial intelligence’s long, hard trek to easy interfaces for complex tech
Artificial intelligence is a big deal at the moment, no pun intended. So far this year, venture capitalists have invested $7.6 billion in artificial intelligence tech, according to PitchBook Data. That is close to double the $4 billion they dropped on AI deals just two years ago. What face-melting, futuristic technologies can we expect from ...
Digital killed the gallery star? Not so, says this multimedia artist
From real-time online cartooning to hand-drawn PC games, it can be tough to tell where human artists and art end and where technology begins. These hybridized forms also prove that digital innovation and old-school techniques don’t have to be enemies. In fact, the human and tech worlds can enrich each other, according to Rob Prior (pictured), ...
Product designers steal gaming tricks to keep customers coming back
Gaming is so addictive to some people, there are now clinics that detox sufferers just like alcoholics. Unfortunate for those individuals — but interesting to product designers. What company wouldn’t want a touch of that seductive juju to draw in consumers? “I’m seeing clients come to me — a game designer — in banking, call centers, [software as ...
Cloud, on-prem or crushed with a steamroller: 32 flavors of flexible hybrid storage
The cloud-enabled world of flexible pricing lets customers man the wheel with on-demand information technology resources, like data storage. How does this compare to long-term licensing agreements? Let’s just say customers like the view from the driver’s seat. “This is a whole new world where what you pay for is flexibility,” said Noam Shendar (pictured), general manager of the hyperscale ...