Tag: #analytics
Analytics and operations need to find common ground
This year’s Chief Data and Analytics Officer Conference in Toronto was an opportunity for those in the analytics realm to commiserate over challenges and...
Study assesses risk in a changing insurance market for driverless vehicles
MCLEAN, VA (May 9, 2017) - In October 2015, tax giant KPMG published a report projecting a 60% reduction in the $135 billion auto...
BI at MSH: a study in metric mobilization
The challenge:
Markham Stouffville Hospital (MSH) is a two-site community hospital that delivers diagnostic services and clinical programs in acute care medicine and surgery,...
Getting them young
We keep hearing that millennials want to work with tools that are familiar, as though that were something new. It's not. Everyone leans towards...
New tools for new breach reporting
Information professional professionals across the country have been considering the ramifications of new requirements in Canada’s Digital Privacy Act legislation slated to come into...
Scoping services with CenturyLink, SAP and SEAL
CenturyLink is resolving the ‘build’, ‘buy’ or ‘ally’ conundrum with a simple strategy: it is using them all. In developing its Big Data practice...
How to solve the most common data problems in retail with...
In the retail business, big data is poised in the coming years to open up huge opportunities in the way stores (both physical and...
Atomwise delivers AI to speed drug discovery
When we think of developments in artificial intelligence (AI), vision processing, autonomous vehicles, search engines and cybersecurity tend to be the first applications that...
Tackling the ‘data dump’ challenge
Big Data initiatives are multiplying at an unprecedented rate. The near-ubiquitous discussion of IoT and the accelerating adoption of AI and machine learning are...
The emergence of intelligence-led policing in wildlife protection
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Feb. 21, 2017 - ILP originated from the necessity in policing to focus on using informants and surveillance techniques to combat repeat offenders, with close...
Car clouds and data networks – the Ethernet game is on
Celebrated as a “data centre on wheels,” the modern car is more software than ‘hardware’, and kicks off an enormous amount of data that...
CIA Plus Meetup tackles IoT privacy and security
The most recent CIA Plus Meetup in Toronto touched on subjects that are becoming of prime concern to the security community. Entitled Who’s Big...
Financing Fred Hutch – a study in data transformation
Background:
Based in Seattle, Washington, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Fred Hutch) is a world leader in the detection, prevention and treatment of...
MS cloud + AI = digital transformation
Microsoft is one of several major IT players racing to build the AI (Artificial Intelligence) startup community. In December 2016, the company announced a...
CARROT points are good for your health
There’s nothing like instant gratification for achieving a means to an end. That’s the thinking behind CARROT Insights, a unique rewards-style program that isn’t...
