Read predictions for analytics in 2017, how human knowledge may prevent automation errors, and how knowing the right context provides value in big data.
- By Quint Turner
- December 14, 2016
Industry analyst Michael Schiff shares the results of last year's predictions and what he foresees in the coming year.
- By Mike Schiff
- December 14, 2016
Mike Driscoll of Metamarkets explains where data analytics and data science are headed, the tools and techniques that have great potential, and the beauty of tables in displaying analytics results.
- By James E. Powell
- December 14, 2016
These visualizations explore employment across different sectors, factors that affect job satisfaction, and the most common jobs across the U.S.
- By Lindsay Stares
- December 14, 2016
The risks posed by the Internet of Things are still not fully understood. Devices that connect to the Internet without proper security are trouble waiting to happen.
- By Brian J. Dooley
- December 13, 2016
The Apache Spark cluster computing framework is widely used in the enterprise, and most adopters expect to increase their use of Spark over the next year, according to a recent survey of big data professionals.
How to get started with data analytics, improve your data wrangling, and set expectations for data governance in self-service BI.
- By Quint Turner
- December 13, 2016
Data scientist Deb Cooper explains how her business understanding impacts her work and why data scientists and advanced analytics practitioners should cultivate support from business sponsors.
At the re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a slew of new products, services, and features, including a technology for querying against its S3 storage service and a new AI framework.
- By Steve Swoyer
- December 12, 2016