Data Science
While the field of data science is not tied directly to Big Data, advances in one tends to produce advances in the other. Big Data increases our ability to harvest and process data, while data science allows us to dig into it for insights.
3 days to save you 2 years – Berlin’s first IoT weekend
Dataconomy has joined forces with Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, one of the world’s leading IoT entrepreneurs and influencers, to run an exclusive, 3-day IoT workshop in Berlin, February 24-26, 2017. Alexandra will host an intensive course where she will provide guidance and share everything she knows about how to build a business that offers
How different companies think about Data Science
Data science can mean something completely different depending on context. The problems you’ll face at an early-stage startup will be vastly different from the ones you’ll face at a Fortune 500 giant. Not only are there different roles in data science, there are also different companies with vastly different data
The Rise of Insurtech in the Age of Algorithms
Titled ‘Data Science for Banking & Insurance’, Dataiku’s free eBook includes recommendations, use cases, testimonials, and how-to checklists that enable you to make your mark in this new era of Fintech and Insurtech. Whether you are working in marketing, risk management, product design, finance, actuarial science, underwriting, or claim management,
This is the Data Science bootcamp that guarantees a data science job or a 100% tuition refund
Springboard launches data science bootcamp with a job guarantee – Springboard is launching its Data Science Career Track — the first online data science bootcamp that offers a job guarantee to its graduates. The company tracked 50 of its graduates and saw that all 50 got a job within six
“The future of humanity is to direct one’s own evolution” – An Interview with Amal Graafstra
Amal Graafstra is a double RFID implantee, author of the book RFID Toys, and TEDx speaker. His interest in biohacking, RFID, and NFC began in 2005 as a simple solution to a problem. He wanted easy access to his office. He explored biometric options only to find they were too
4 Ways Predictive Data Analytics Changes How Consumers Behave
Smartphones have made it possible for businesses to monitor you at all times. Take a company like Google for example. You may look up the name of a restaurant over Google Search, turn on your navigation to the destination using Google Maps and perhaps also check for weather and traffic
What are banks telling their investors about FinTech?
Interest in fintech disruption is at an all-time high, but who will be the winners and who the losers is far from clear. Banks themselves have been sending mixed messages. As a particularly high profile example, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon famously raised the alarm when he said in
AI Is Disrupting Everything And These 3 Industries Are Next
You may not see it, but it’s there. Artificial intelligence, that is. It’s beating us at our most complicated games, helping curate the news we read every day, ever improving our search results, driving our cars, and on and on and on. We’ve entered into what some experts are calling
“Before big data and all the buzzwords, it was all data mining” – Kathleen Kennedy, MIT Technology Review
Kathleen Kennedy is the president of MIT Technology Review and the MIT Enterprise Forum. MIT technology review is MIT’s media platform and it covers emerging technologies and their impact. Their job is to help the audience understand the world shaped by technology, and obviously data is one of those huge
Data-as-a-Service lessons from a company that was right about Trump
One company correctly predicted both Brexit and Trump’s victory, using data insights that most pollsters missed. This is how to make your own. The US presidential election results sent shock waves around the world and led us to question the validity of political polls, one of the longest-standing and most
