Big Brother? No, no, no, Big Data.

If someone tells you about the Big Data concept in the course of a conversation, do not think that your interlocutor is addicted to the programs of reality TV (a term used by your audience) or trash (as you like to call your detractors). Although it sounds similar, that's the Big Brother. Although in the background and tangentially, you can find certain similarities, or relationships, between the television phenomenon Big Brother and the latest…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is deemed as one of the richest countries in the world. The country’s profuseness is major because of the production of oil. The discovery of its main source of income came into existence in the 1950s. UAEs economy was solely dependent on fishing, which came to a declining state at a later phase. At present, the middle east is well known for being an exemplary hub for businesses, trade, and commerce. No doubt, UAE has become one of the best examples in…

Real estate is changing. Not only are investors and technology companies such as Zillow expecting the market to favor buyers in 2020, new innovations are going to drive forward a changing landscape in 2019.

In the U.S., analysts are predicting that the value of consumer homes will rise for one more year, up to 5.9%, until the market…

The blockchain is one of the hottest and fastest growing skills in the IT sector today. It is said that there are around 44% of organizations that have adopted blockchain globally. We all know that this technology has taken quite a turn in the industry given its popularity in providing safe and secured online transactions.

This technology is…

Data Science is a combination of data inference, algorithms, and technology that solves complex problems. The core of this technology is data that is initially raw, then is streamlined, and stored in a data warehouse. These vast amounts of data can help generate significant business values.…

Artificial intelligence has been fascinating to the human imagination since the term was first used by the first science fiction writers.

The roots of the concept of "artificial intelligence" must be sought deep in the ancient world, where folklore, legends and myths in almost every culture spoke of artificially created creatures endowed with supernatural intelligence, consciousness or other human qualities. The only factor uniting the myths of the whole world is that artificial…

According to technology experts that would have increased from 130 to 40000 exabytes ten and a half years before 2020. Some research writers have estimated that society will produce 1.7 megabytes of data every day for each individual on the planet increasing today's digital universe from 4.4 to 44 zettabytes

A lot of institutions and organisations…

One character of technology which is commendable and appreciated by all is that it never stops to evolve. There are technological marvels being created every day, leaving everyone awe-struck with the wonders that they can perform. Ingenious inventions taking birth through the boundless imagination of scientist, engineers, and other brainiacs are responsible for shaping how business is done and things go about in each sector of the economy.

Blockchain technology, a resourceful…

The insurance industry – one of the least digitalized – is not surprisingly one of the most ineffective segments of the financial services industry. Internal business processes are often duplicated, bureaucratized, and time-consuming. As the ubiquity of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems increases, they have the potential to automate operations in insurance companies thereby cutting costs and increasing productivity. However, organizations have plenty of reasons to resist…

Packt Publishing, publisher of software learning resources, has revealed the results of its 2018 Skill Up Developer Skills survey in a new report.From what programming languages, frameworks, and libraries are most used, to job satisfaction, the report offers a snapshot of what matters to software developers in 2018. 

In the Skill Up Survey, both app and web…

At the Mobile World Congress, MasterCard recently announced that it was teaming up with Facebook to provide small businesses in Africa and Asia with an affordable and simple on-ramp for accepting mobile payments.

The partnership will help unbanked retailers and merchants in the regions open bank accounts…

Working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year across more than 130 countries, Woebot is undoubtedly a busy therapeutic chatbot. The good news is that Woebot recently secured $8 million to gain access to mental health care worldwide.

The world’s first…

The manufacturing industry has always has been open to adopting latest technologies. Industrial robots and drones have been a part of the manufacturing industry subsequently since 1960s. The next automation revolution is just around the turn and the US Manufacturing Sector is awaiting this technological advancements eagerly. The adoption of AI by the companies can keep…

Big Data tools not only simplify lengthy analytical procedures in any industry, but they also provide a competitive advantage to banks. With new regulations, banks are looking at ways to make compliance procedures more effective and accurate. Big Data in banking is slowly gaining momentum and becoming an inevitable necessity across the banking industry. As traditional…

Digital strategies are driving exponential change into the business landscape.

What was a physical process yesterday, whether in retail, transportation, banking or healthcare, has been dematerialized by an endless proliferation of new digital processes and devices.  This transformation has fostered an explosive growth in data…

About a month ago in a blog, I introduced what I described as a “spectral attenuation monitor.”  At the time I only had an image from MS Works that…

Analytics needs a evangelist! Without such a person, you just don’t get the impact that Analytics actually is capable of providing! Mostly this evangelist needs to be right at the top, the CEO! I have worked with a range of industries & everywhere the degree of impact shoots up once you have a CXO who is evangelising this change.

Of course, some CMOs have led their organizations into embracing the practice, including John Costello, former exec VP-CMO of Home…

“Many products and applications exist today that can help us take steps toward healthier living." - Ben Bajarin

Big data is everywhere. Yes it’s true that it has always been there but, we are just recently finding ways to best utilize it. All industries are being disrupted with the collection and analyzation of data and medtech is no different.

The majority of data has historically been used to help study disease and find cures. However, with the…

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There has been much in the news lately about the next wave of MT technology driven by a technology called deep learning and neural nets (DNN). I will attempt to provide a brief layman’s overview about what this is, even though I am barely qualified to do this (but if Trump can run for POTUS then…

The year of mobile - we’ve heard this phrase proclaimed every January for the past couple of years, followed by dizzying amounts of variations and extensions such as the…