Author Archives: GilPress
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
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
Most In-Demand Data Science Skills
Source: CrowdFlower, based on “3500 relevant job openings from LinkedIn.” The folks at CrowdFlower excluded Excel from their list but noted that “that’s still something you see in myriad job listings. Old habits die hard.” Of course, data scientists don’t … Continue reading
Remembrance of Technology Past in 2030
Source: @ValaAfshar
Music streaming grew 93% in 2015
Nielsen: …on-demand audio and video streaming continued to gain in popularity in 2015, posting growth rates of 83% and 102%, respectively. In fact, Justin Bieber’s album Purpose set an all-time record for total audio on-demand streams when it was streamed … Continue reading
Mobile App Usage Rose 58% in 2015
Flurry Insights: In 2015 overall app usage grew by 58%. In this context, we define app usage as a user opening an app and recording what we call a “session.” With the exception of Games, every app category posted year-over-year … Continue reading
History of Databases (Infographic)
Source: Cazena
Technologies Shaping the Future: #cloud, #mobile, #IoT, #cognitive
Source: World Economic Forum
Gartner, IDC and Forrester on the Future of Digital Transformation
Gazing intensely into their respective crystal balls, Gartner, IDC, and Forrester have come up with predictions for 2016 and beyond, highlighting digital transformation and its impact on businesses and consumers worldwide. According to Forrester, only 27% of today’s businesses have … Continue reading
Digital Marketing Trends (Infographic)
Source: DazeInfo