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Machine Learning and AI Market Landscape, 2016
Shivon Zilis and James Cham, O’Reilly: For the first time, a “one stop shop” of the machine intelligence stack is coming into view—even if it’s a year or two off from being neatly formalized. The maturing of that stack might explain why … Continue reading
Country Ranking of IoT Preparedness
IDC: [This is an] updated index ranking the Group of 20 (G20) nations on their preparedness for Internet of Things (IoT) development. The original index was first published in 2013 but this updated index is now comprised of 13 criteria … Continue reading
Mobile advertising now accounts for nearly half of online ad budgets
Financial Times: Spending on mobile advertising in the US soared 89 per cent to $15.5bn in the first half of the year, taking up nearly half of online ad budgets, new data show. Mobile makes up 47 per cent of … Continue reading
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9 Categories of Data Scientists
DataViz: Those strong in statistics: they sometimes develop new statistical theories for big data, that even traditional statisticians are not aware of. They are expert in statistical modeling, experimental design, sampling, clustering, data reduction, confidence intervals, testing, modeling, predictive modeling … Continue reading
Digital Tipping Point: Internet Advertising Surpassing TV Advertising in 2016
On October 27, 1994, HotWired, the first commercial Web magazine, gave birth to the first Web banner ad and the Internet advertising industry. PwC predicts that Internet advertising revenues worldwide will surpass TV advertising in 2016 and reach $260.4 billion in … Continue reading
The Evolution of Data Scientists, 2006-2016
Gaurav Vohra, CEO & Co-founder Jigsaw Academy: Here are my predictions for 2021. Machine learning and deep learning will become much more popular. More data and better processing power will enable a lot more analysis of different data. Those who … Continue reading
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DeepBench from Baidu: Benchmarking Hardware for Deep Learning
At the O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence conference, Baidu Research announced DeepBench, an open source benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of deep learning operations on different hardware platforms. Greg Diamos and Sharan Narang of Baidu Research’s Silicon Valley AI Lab talked … Continue reading
Visually Linking AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data and Data Science
Source: Battle of the Data Science Venn Diagrams HT: KDnuggets What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning? Over the past few years AI has exploded, and especially since 2015. Much of that has to do with the … Continue reading