IoT (Internet of Things) is an advanced automation and analytics system which exploits networking, sensing, big data, and artificial intelligence technology to deliver complete systems for a product or service. These systems allow greater transparency, control, and performance when applied to any industry or system. IoT systems have applications across industries through their unique flexibility […]
Introduction On 22 July 2016 , me and a friend named Anchal Gupta participated in an Analytics Vidhya hackathon named ‘The Smart Recruits’ . This blog is about our approach to this particular problem . The problem stated about a particular company Fintro ,a Financial Distribution company and over the last 10 years, they have […]
I start this series with a confession – to me, content is more important than form. I shall always prefer a semantically optimized algorithm to a catchy interface. An old timer, I often wonder how visualization and reporting tools came to be as much in demand amongst budding data scientists as the design and analysis […]
Before going to answer this question let me give you brief introduction of Spark and Hadoop. Spark: Apache Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast (both fast to run and fast to write). It is developed in Scala (functional programming) which is suitable for distributed systems, […]
With the surge of digital streaming technologies, the music industry has been forced to look elsewhere for serious revenue. Music is the one universal media that connects the world, and big data is the key to unlock its potential. Big Data and analytics have played a big part in this reinvigorated romance. From recommendation […]
Cognitive computing is a way to extend the boundaries of human cognition, they are certainly not about replacing or necessarily even replicating the way that the human brain works; but more about extending the capabilities of the human brain. The ability of human to think deeply and solve complex problems is really quite impressive. But […]
To drive a business, profit is required. To gain profit, sales are mandatory. To gain better profit, Analytics in sales is inevitable. Sales job is highly pressurized because of extremely ambitious targets. More often than not the organizations have an apprehension that their sales team won’t hit their target, and are not quickly adapting to […]
This blog post will give you a whirlwind tour of Recommendation Systems. Recommendation systems (sometimes referred to as a recommender system) are a subclass of information filtering system that seek to predict the ‘rating’ or ‘preference’ that a user would give to an item. Recommender systems are one of the most common applications of Big […]
Healthcare organizations garner humungous amount of data which includes both structured and unstructured data. The Electronic Health Record(EHR) provides structured data of a patient’s history of health conditions and prescriptions while the data collected from e-mail, social networking sites, doctors’ clinical notes are unstructured data. Some facts and figures In 2012 worldwide digital health care […]
A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from a supplier to a customer. Supply chain activities involve the transformation of natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished product that is delivered to the end customer. In sophisticated supply chain systems, used products may re-enter the supply chain […]