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19th Jan 2018 – Data Science News Daily Roundup

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MicroStrategy’s new connectors, Kubernetes scales to 2500 nodes, TensorboardX, and more in today’s top stories around machine learning, deep learning,and data science news.

1. MicroStrategy announces new connectors to data discovery vendors Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Technologies, and Tableau Software

MicroStrategy, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software announced new connectors at its annual user conference MicroStrategy World™ 2018, which began on 15th January, 2018.

These brand new connectors help promote a more open and powerful analytics ecosystem, which enables business users of different discovery tools to bridge applications across their enterprise. Users of Power BI, Qlik, and Tableau can now connect to their MicroStrategy systems and experience the best of both worlds, i.e. the individual features they want from data discovery tools and a robust enterprise environment with governance, security, and scalability for their analytics applications. To know more, visit the link here.

2. OpenAI to scale Kubernetes to 2500 nodes

OpenAI decides to scale Kubernetes to 2500 nodes. Kubernetes’ fast iteration cycle, reasonable scalability, and a lack of boilerplate makes it ideal for most of their experiments.

OpenAI now operates several Kubernetes clusters (some in the cloud and some on physical hardware), the largest of which they have pushed to over 2,500 nodes. This cluster runs in Azure on a combination of D15v2 and NC24 VMs.

To know more about how OpenAI scaled Kubernetes and the breakages caused, visit the link here.

3. Tensorboard-PyTorch plugin for graph visualization of your model

The name TensorboardX means tensorboard for X. This means, the package can be used by other DL frameworks such as mxnet, chainer as well. The tensorboard-pytorch plugin is a module for visualization with Tensorboard. It allows you to watch tensors flow without actually using Tensorflow.

The Tensorboard-PyTorch plugin:

  • Helps you write Tensorboard events with a simple function call
  • Supports five visualizations: scalars, images, audio, histograms, and the graph

To know more about TensorboardX visit the Github repo. To know more about Tensorboard’s pytorch plugin visit the link here.

4. Distilled Analytics announces Behavioral Analytics Model for financial services

Distilled Analytics today launched its Behavioral Analytics Model, a state-of-the-art, AI-driven data platform that aims to change how asset managers, banks, and nonbank financial institutions manage risk and grow revenue.

The company predicts financial actions using a suite of tools to provide deep insights for financial professionals. The AI platform ingests unstructured and structured data, and analyzes complex patterns to calculate outcomes in areas such as economic development, public health, and identity theft. Some key offerings are:

  • Distilled IDENTITY provides more accurate and timely anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) compliance that eases the burden of observing conflicting regulatory requirements, in addition to helping financial institutions better manage their client relationships.
  • Distilled IMPACT delivers quantification of nonfinancial activities to enable asset growth of impact investing managers.
  • Distilled CREDIT improves understanding of credit risk to enable expanded lending portfolios, identification of unserved or underserved customers, and reduced defaults.

5. Enterprise Blockchain all set to hit the markets this 2018

There have been a lot of enhancements coming in enterprise blockchain platforms. According to Coindesk, 2018 could be the year enterprise blockchain goes live and businesses can move from experimenting to production.

In various customer conversations during the 2017, the challenges to moving successful successful PoCs to pilots and further to production boils down to five areas of enterprise-grade requirements:

  • performance at scale
  • operational resilience
  • security and confidentiality
  • supportability and management
  • enterprise integration.

To read about this news in detail visit the link here.

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