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 […]
In the last article of getting started series, we discussed the meaning of term data science and its components. In this article, we will look at Data Munging, its importance and how it is performed. In any data analysis, data preparation accounts for the majority of the effort, 70% of the time is involved in […]
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 […]
Watson is a cognitive computing system that understands natural language. The computer is designed to have the same learning process as humans. Watson has applications across multiple disciplines, including Watson for Clinical Trial Matching, Watson for Oncology, Watson Discovery Advisor, Watson Explorer, Watson Engagement Advisor, Watson Analytics and Watson Curator. Imagine using Watson analytics capabilities […]
Whitepaper by Deloitte and Aegis on “Opportunities In Telecom Sector Arising from Big Data” was unveiled at Aegis Graham Bell Award 2015 ceremony, 27 November 2015, New Delhi Left to Right: Mr. Rajan S Mathews, Director General, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI); Mr. Hemant Joshi, Partner, Deloitte India; Mr. Arvind Bali, CEO, Videocon Telecom; […]
Data Mining – Extraction, Collection and Preparation of raw data Data is available everywhere – in websites, in documents, in social media, in news, in sensors, in machines, in robots and in this blog post as well. With this huge amount of data in place, number of data science applications exploiting this data and producing […]
Over the past few years, Big Data has transformed the way the travel and tourism sector functions. Usage of data has always been an asset in the travel industry, and it was one of the first to embrace it for business advantage. Airlines pioneered the use of price optimization analytics, and hotels adopted the same […]