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Artifical Intelligence Machines to Replace Physicians and Transform Healthcare
10 New Big Data Observations from Tom Davenport
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHhD4n3iFE?rel=0] The term “big data” has become nearly ubiquitous. Indeed, it seems that every day we hear new reports of how some company is using big data and sophisticated analytics to become increasingly competitive. The topic first began to … Continue reading
Google’s RankBrain Outranks the Best Brains in the Industry
Bloomberg recently broke the news that Google is “turning its lucrative Web search over to AI machines.” Google revealed to the reporter that for the past few months, a very large fraction of the millions of search queries Google responds … Continue reading
Cloud traffic will grow at an annual rate of 33% over the next 5 years, Cisco predicts
The new version of the Cisco Cloud Index computes the rapid expansion of today’s stampede to the cloud. “We have never seen anything like this in terms of speed of customer adoption,” Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd said recently, describing how his corporate … Continue reading
The Startup Unicorn Explosion (Infographic)
CB Insights: We looked at all still-private unicorns since 2011 and charted them based on when they first joined the unicorn club. While initially the chart shows unicorns being created at a relatively calm pace, the rhythm accelerates noticeably in … Continue reading
Top Skills and Backgrounds of Data Scientists on LinkedIn
A new study of LinkedIn profiles by RJMetrics has found that the number of data scientists has doubled over the last 4 years . This reflects the increasing demand for sophisticated data analysis skills, combining computer programming with statistics, and the … Continue reading
Hunting Unicorns and Rapidly Becoming the Master of the Startup Universe
CB Insights is riding the Unicorn Boom, doubling its headcount since the beginning of the year, propelled by its unique database of companies and investors and everything there is to know about them. The frequency of “according to CB Insights” … Continue reading