Data science folks have 12 reasons to be thankful for this Thanksgiving
We are nearing the end of 2017. But with each ending chapter, we have remarkable achievements to be thankful for. Similarly, for the data...
Looking at the different types of Lookup cache
The following is an excerpt from a book by Rahul Malewar titled Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x. We walk through the various types of lookup...
How self-service analytics is changing modern-day businesses
To stay competitive in today’s economic environment, organizations can no longer be reliant on just their IT team for all their data consumption needs....
Spark + H2O = Sparkling water for your machine learning needs
The following is an excerpt from the book Mastering Machine Learning with Spark, Chapter 1, Introduction to Large-Scale Machine Learning and Spark written by...
Google joins the social coding movement with CoLaboratory
Google has made it quite accessible for people to collaborate their documents, spreadsheets, and so on, with the Google Drive feature. What next? If...
Of perfect strikes, tackles and touchdowns: how analytics is changing sports
The rise of Big Data and Analytics is drastically changing the landscape of many businesses - and the sports industry is one of them....
Know Your Customer: Envisaging customer sentiments using Behavioral Analytics
“All the world’s a stage and the men and women are merely players.”
Shakespeare may have considered men and women as mere players, but...
13 reasons why Exit Polls get it wrong sometimes
An Exit poll, as the name suggests, is a poll taken immediately after voters exit the polling booth. Private companies working for popular newspapers...
Getting started with Storm Components for Real Time Analytics
In this article by Shilpi Saxena and Saurabh Gupta from their book Practical Real-time data Processing and Analytics we shall explore Storm's architecture with its...
How Near Real Time (NRT) Applications work
In this article by Shilpi Saxena and Saurabh Gupta from their book Practical Real-time data Processing and Analytics we shall explore what a near real...
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Top life hacks for prepping for your IT certification exam
I remember deciding to pursue my first IT certification, the CompTIA A+. I had signed up for a class that lasted one week, per...
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Learn Transformers for Natural Language Processing with Denis Rothman
Key takeaways
The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN and CNN models in use today.
Artificial intelligence is...
