Informatica Modernizes Data Management with Cisco to Fuel New Business Insights

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), a leading independent provider of data integration software, today announced a joint Data Warehouse Optimization solution with Cisco for organizations looking to modernize data management and fuel new business insights.

Paxata Debuts Spring ’15 Release at Strata + Hadoop World

Paxata, an Adaptive Data Preparation™ application and platform built from the ground up to help business analysts, data scientists, developers, data curators, and IT teams automate, collaborate and dynamically govern the data integration, data quality and enrichment process in a self-service fashion, today announced the availability of its Spring ’15 release at Strata + Hadoop World.

2015 Survey of Data Scientists Reveals Strategic Insights

CrowdFlower, a leading data enrichment platform for data scientists, today released its 2015 Data Scientist Report. Findings revealed that data scientists saw messy, disorganized data as a a major hurdle preventing them from doing what they find most interesting in their jobs: predictive analysis and data mining for behavioral patterns and future trends.

White House Hires Chief Data Scientist

Big data is a big deal for the Obama administration, and as a result the White House announced last week it has hired one of Silicon Valley’s top data scientists. DJ Patil, formerly of LinkedIn and RelateIQ, a subsidiary of Salesforce, now serves as chief data scientist in residence for the White House.

Statistics is the Fastest Growing Undergraduate STEM Degree

Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

Aviso Launches Data Science Solution for Sales Forecasting

Aviso has introduced Aviso Insights™, a data science solution for enterprises that arms sales teams with powerful predictive tools they need to meet and exceed quarterly targets with confidence. Using machine learning and portfolio management frameworks, Aviso Insights enables sales,finance and business leaders at any time to confidently answer the question: “How’s the quarter going?”

Data Science 101: Machine Learning – The Basics

The next installment of insideAI News’s Data Science 101 series comes from our friends over at LinkedIn.

Predictive Analytics for the Masses – Data Science-as-a-Service

In this special guest feature, Justin Shriber of C9 advises how data science as a service opens many doors previously closed to companies wishing to capitalize on the power of predictive analytics.

Dr. Max Kuhn Interviewed at useR! Conference

In the presentation below, data scientist, author (“Applied Predictive Modeling” with Kjell Johnson) and R caret package developer Max Kuhn sits down for an in-depth interview with Eduardo Arino de la Rubia sponsored by our friends over at DataScience.LA. They discuss the art and science of predictive modeling in the real world, the multifaceted and […]

Data Science 101: Using Statistics to Predict AB Testing

The talk below presents simple methods that can accurately predict future performance from AB test results, and that allow you to determine the smallest acceptable sample size. Using four years of AB testing data, you’ll see how these methods really work.