Imagine that you were tasked with indexing (categorizing and summarizing) the contents of a large collection of randomly formatted text documents to make them easily accessible throughout your company. Perhaps this use case contains legal documents as well as medical records (with various levels of sensitivity). Suppose that the size of this collection contained over 100 … [Read more...] about What Does This Text Really Mean?
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PAPIs ’16 – 3rd Int. Conference on Predictive Applications and APIs
PAPIs is an international community conference dedicated to real-world Machine Learning, predictive applications and APIs.'The conference is in its third edition this year and it is now coming to Boston (after Barcelona in '14 and Sydney in '15),'the first time the event will be held in The United States!'PAPIs brings together leaders from all around the world as well as … [Read more...] about PAPIs ’16 – 3rd Int. Conference on Predictive Applications and APIs
Platform Economy, Making Enterprise Software “Just Right”
Will Platform Software Prevent Software Obsolescence? Accenture recently published their Technology Vision 2016. I applaud Accenture for maintaining a summary of their Tech Vision from 2015 and 2014 in this publication. It is rare that a forward looking report looks back at past predictions. Perhaps they did it because they were pretty much spot on. I am particularly interested … [Read more...] about Platform Economy, Making Enterprise Software “Just Right”
Where Hadoop Can Use a Tuneup
With Hadoop becoming more versatile and useful to businesses of nearly any type and size, more organizations than ever before have started using this helpful big data tool. Hadoop has been around for more than a decade now, but the rise of big data analytics has placed the magnifying lens squarely over the platform. Its open source nature has allowed Hadoop to evolve over that … [Read more...] about Where Hadoop Can Use a Tuneup
4 Reasons Why Open Source is Ready for the Enterprise
Recently, Mike Olson, the co-founder of Cloudera, took some time for an interview about the developments within the Hadoop ecosystem. In 2008, Cloudera was the first commercial distribution of Hadoop. Lots has happened since then, for Mike, there is no doubt about the future of open source. "If you go back in time 10 years you would see that a lot of CIOs believed there was … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons Why Open Source is Ready for the Enterprise
