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Worldwide Shipments of Wearables to Surpass 200 Million in 2019
https://accounts.icharts.net/icharts/embed/MH7TwipN iCharts IDC The worldwide wearable device market will reach a total of 111.1 million units shipped in 2016, up a strong 44.4% from the 80 million units expected to ship shipped in 2015. By 2019, the final year … Continue reading
Price is #1 Barrier to the Purchase of IoT Devices
Accenture: Consumers report that price is the top barrier to the purchase of IoT devices, with 62 percent believing these devices are too expensive. This perception is almost consistent across age groups and countries—with mature markets only slightly less concerned … Continue reading
Data visualization: Plotting life expectancy against income for 200 countries over 200 years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo?rel=0] Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has … Continue reading
A Reasonable Discussion of Deep Learning’s Great Expectations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygSMgK3BEM?rel=0] Luke Hewitt: I have no doubt that the next few years will see neural networks turn their attention to yet more tasks, integrate themselves more deeply into industry, and continue to impress researchers with new superpowers. This is … Continue reading
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The Business Value of the Internet of Things (Infographic)
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The Economy of Cloud Computing (Infographic)
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IoT Data Traffic Growth: As many machines as people roaming by 2020
Machina Research estimates that there are now 350 million cellular based connections worldwide, and this will grow to 1.3 billion over the next five years. However, the proportion of M2M connections accounted for by roaming is growing even faster. As a … Continue reading
Use of IoT in Healthcare and Life Sciences
eMarketer: Despite numerous regulatory and privacy constraints, organizations inside and outside the healthcare industry are exploring ways to put the IoT to work. Players include pharma and biopharma manufacturers; hospitals and clinics; physicians, nurses and other healthcare providers (HCPs); health … Continue reading
The Machine Learning Landscape
Shivon Zilis: Most of these machine intelligence startups take well-worn machine intelligence techniques, some more than a decade old, and apply them to new data sets and workflows. It’s still true that big companies, with their massive data sets and … Continue reading
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IIA, Forrester, IDC, and Gartner on the Future of Big Data Analytics and Cognitive Computing
Big data analytics is the next trillion-dollar market, says Michael Dell. IDC has a more modest and specific prediction, forecasting the market for big data technology and services to grow at a 23.1% compound annual growth rate, reaching $48.6 billion … Continue reading