BDNW Issue - 21

#21 - Feb 19 2020 Curated news, articles on Big Data,FinTech, Blockchain, IoT,AI

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6 Emerging Business Intelligence ToolsBusiness Intelligence tools are the softwares used to analyze, gather, visualize, and process huge data effortlessly. Now, let’s look at the benefits of business intelligence tools that allow organizations to use this professional software or tools.Cloud Migration Strategies for Hybrid ArchitecturesThe cloud infrastructure can be either public or private. Hybrid clouds can also include multiple different cloud infrastructures at once. In this article, you’ll learn about the challenges of hybrid cloud migration, and strategies for a successful implementation.Analytics, Business, and Improving Results with Digital TransformationIn this era, digital transformation is forcing lots of businesses to adopt technology into their models. What’s exciting about this change is that the transformation is driven by the customer and not by companies.Researcher Develops Algorithm to Make Artificial Intelligence FairerA researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an innovative new algorithm that will help make artificial intelligence (AI) fairer and less biased when processing data.Automating MySQL schema migrations with GitHub Actions and moreGithub writes about how they've automated the process of applying schema migrations at scale (meaning number of tables, number of developers, and size of server fleet).Five Interesting Data Engineering ProjectsAn intro to five data engineering projects that are worth checking out, if you're not already using them: dbt (managing SQL code), Prefect (a new workflow engine), Dask (distributed computing for Python), DVC (the "data version control"), and Great Expectations (for testing data).Easily upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 while migrating to Google CloudCloud migration projects almost always involve components that span multiple applications, technologies, and platforms. This means they also usually require a comprehensive strategy including multiple products and solutions to get migrations over the finish line.What is Reproducible Machine Learning?How reproducible is the latest ML research, and can we begin to quantify what impacts its reproducibility? This question served as motivation for my NeurIPS 2019 paper. Based on a combination of masochism and stubbornness, over the past eight years I have attempted to implement various ML algorithms from scratch.Introduction to Artificial Life for People who Like AIAs a scientific field, ALife was officially born when the American computer scientist Christopher Langton organised the first ALife workshop in 1987. Langton coined the name “Artificial Life” and defined it as “the study of artificial systems that exhibit behavior characteristic of natural living systems.”Using Analytics to Improve Your Business in 2020Analytics is an essential tool for any business. Due to the possibility of extracting beneficial information from analytics, organizations have the opportunity to increase efficiency, profits, and effectively scale up.Using IoT to Find New Efficiencies for Your BusinessThe expansion of IoT technology over the last several years has been stunning. One study predicted a total of 75.44 billion connected devices in use by 2025. If this level is reached, it would represent a 5x increase over the course of a decade.     Courses       Data science courses to jumpstart your future  Popular online courses for data science include introductions to data science, data science in R, Python, SQL, and other programming languages, basic data mining techniques, and the use of data science in machine learning applications.    Become an Azure expert using real-life case studies  With internet-based computing, exchange of information has been facilitated with universal access of the computing resources also allowing enterprises to store and process huge data in data centers provided by third-party.  .          For a detailed list of books covering Big data Data Science, Machine Learning, AI and associated programming languages check out our big data books page.  Want to reach our audience / fellow readers? Consider Sponsoring - grab a spot now.    Big Data | Hadoop News | AI | ML | NoSQL | Education | IoT | Cloud