Despite the attraction of consumer-facing AI, IBM's focus on practical business applications may yet win the race for widespread AI adoption.
- By Barry Devlin
- January 18, 2017
Three examples of interactive visualizations: drawing a chart before revealing the data, a quiz to test your demographics knowledge, and a game to teach correlation coefficients.
- By Lindsay Stares
- January 18, 2017
Large insurance companies are very good at aggregating data to analyze risk, but not so good at using big data to improve the front-end customer experience. That presents an opportunity for smaller firms, explains a digital marketing expert at insurance start-up Insureon.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- January 18, 2017
Microsoft's Power BI cloud platform got an analytics refresh to close out the year. In addition, Power BI now supports DirectQuery for both Spark and Azure Analysis Services.
- By Steve Swoyer
- January 17, 2017
What's it like to be a chief technology officer? We look at the job itself and what role analytics plays with Darren Peirce of Magnitude Software.
- By James E. Powell
- January 17, 2017
A new poll shows what Americans think about policy under President Obama, a survey explores how people judge their news sources, and experts predict the major cybersecurity threats for 2017.
- By Lindsay Stares
- January 17, 2017
Adoption of analytics across the enterprise is occurring at breakneck speed, and there is no sign of slowing down. In 2017, we'll witness a critical point as organizations seek analytics that extract greater value from all available data.
- By Venkat Viswanathan
- January 17, 2017