William Vambenepe is the Lead Project Manager for Big Data at Google Cloud Platform. Dataconomy interviewed him about his career path, his current role and how he sees the industry changing. You’ve worked for some of the biggest names in the industry (HP, Oracle, Google), what stands out to you

Within the rail industry, anything which helps keep trains moving, avoiding operational delays and improves customer experience, is worth pursuing. Many OEMs are now investing significant resources into one of the most valuable and potentially rewarding currencies in business: Big Data. In rail, and specifically when it comes to rolling

Jeff Palmucci has been writing code professionally since he was 11 years old. A serial entrepreneur, Jeff has started several companies. He was a Founder and the VP of Software Development for Optimax Systems, a developer of scheduling systems for manufacturing operations. Optimax was acquired by i2 Technologies where he

Unstructured text data represents the biggest data set available to enterprises, yet most are unable to process the vast amount of data they collect to get any meaningful insight. Up to 80 percent of data available to enterprises is unstructured data, and comes in a variety of forms, such as

Narrative Science has been a regular feature on Dataconomy over the past year, from Chief Scientist Kris Hammond’s post about the impact of artificial intelligence on banking, to the launch of their Quill Connect application for processing unstructured text data from social media. I think for AI in general, the goal is not to

Whether you’re entirely new to the field of big data, or looking to expand your machine learning knowledge; whether you have 3 hours or 3 minutes; whether you want you want to know more about the technology, or the high-level applications- this list is a sample of the best Youtube

Trent McConaghy has been doing AI and ML research since the mid 90s. He co-founded ascribe GmbH, which enables copyright protection via internet-scale ML and the blockchain. Before that, he co-founded Solido where he applied ML to circuit design; the majority of big semis now use Solido. Before that, he

Powering real-time applications involves scaling not only existing enterprise applications, but also new applications that have emerged from the web, social media, and mobile devices. Overwhelmed by massive data growth, businesses must carefully select cost-effective technologies that can enable applications to easily manage both the data volumes of today and

For the first time in hundreds of years, writing is set for an evolution. Certainly, throughout the past several centuries, how people write has changed. From etching on stone and metal tablets and quill pens to movable type and the art of the swipe, the instruments enabling humans to write

Big data is a big deal. Unfortunately, due to the sheer volume and velocity at which its created, many organizations still struggle to make sense of their data. Furthermore, because data is dispersed across so many disparate platforms (e.g. marketing automation, CRMs, Google Analytics, etc.), it’s become increasingly difficult to