For many years, people believed that technological breakthroughs were incompatible with religious ideologies. According to recent observations from both data scientists and leaders in religious communities, big data and religion are starting to finally merge. How will this affect our knowledge of religion? Big data and religion intersect in strange ways Although many people are […]
Archives for 2019
How Big Data Makes Traditional Branding More Effective Than Ever
Data is being produced in massive volume in 2019. It serves a variety of purposes in many industries. The digital marketing industry is among the sectors that is most dependent on big data. However, marketers often overlook the benefits of using big data in traditional branding strategies, although they can be just as beneficial. You […]
Smart building security flaws leave schools, hospitals at risk
Security professionals are typically charged with ensuring the integrity of data security on equipment stored in the cloud, or on premises—less so with ensuring the integrity of the physical premises itself. As a result, building automation systems often go untested, if not outright ignored. These systems may constitute shadow IT in certain organizations, as leased […]
Cybersecurity Predictions for 2019
Cybersecurity is a concern for organizations of all sizes. It’s also one of the fastest growing industries in the world today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2026 information security analyst jobs will increase by 28%. So, it should come as no surprise that everyone is interested in what cybersecurity is going to […]
Almost Half of Companies Still Can’t Detect IoT Device Breaches, Reveals Gemalto Study
Use of blockchain technology to help secure IoT data, services and devices doubles in a year. Gemalto can today reveal that only around half (48%) of businesses can detect if any of their IoT devices suffers a breach. This comes despite companies having an increased focus on IoT security: Spending on protection has grown (from […]
Practical Recursive Feature Selection
With the Summer 2018 Release Data Transformations were added to BigML. SQL-style queries, feature engineering with the Flatline editor and options to merge and join datasets are great, but sometimes these are not enough. If we have hundreds of different columns in our dataset it can be hard to handle them. We are able to apply transformations but to which columns? […]
Azure Site Recovery team is hosting an Ask Me Anything session
You can start asking your questions with #ASR_AMA soon! The Azure Site Recovery (ASR) team will host a special Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Twitter, Tuesday, January 22, 2019 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. You can tweet to @AzSiteRecovery or @AzureSupport with #ASR_AMA. What’s an AMA session? We’ll have folks […]
Pix2Story: Neural storyteller which creates machine-generated story in several literature genre
Storytelling is at the heart of human nature. We were storytellers long before we were able to write, we shared our values and created our societies mostly through oral storytelling. Then, we managed to find the way to record and share our stories, and certainly more advanced ways to broadly share our stories; from Gutenberg’s […]
How Workforce Analytics And Inventory Management Go Hand In Hand
You know better than anybody how many variables are in play during an average day in warehouse and inventory management. There’s low-turnover merchandise to look after, high-demand merchandise to re-order and equipment breakdowns to contend with. With global e-commerce raising the bar for efficiency and competitiveness, it just makes good business sense to look at […]
Azure Monitor logs in Grafana – now in public preview
We’re happy to introduce the new Grafana integration with Microsoft Azure Monitor logs. This integration is achieved through the new Log Analytics plugin, now available as part of the Azure Monitor data source. The new plugin continues our promise to make Azure’s monitoring data available and easy to consume. Last year, in the v1 of […]