Accelerating Data Science Using Machine Learning Automation (Alteryx Inspire Europe 2017)

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This session looks at how a combination of self-service data preparation and Machine Learning automation can be used to significantly reduce time to value by accelerating model development in data science. The session will cover: The explosion in demand for analytics Data science and the modern analytical ecosystem Challenges with current approaches to analytics Reducing […]

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Operational BI and Analytics in a Data Driven Enterprise

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For a lot of my clients today, the importance of BI and analytics has never been so high. And it’s pretty clear that that opinion is no longer just in middle management. It is also in the boardroom where the belief now appears to be that BI and analytics are mission critical to success. In […]

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Mike Ferguson on Big Data (ComputerWeekly 500)

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Managing and making sense of huge volumes of mostly unstructured information is a growing issue for IT leaders, one that has come to be known as “big data”, and many experts point to this as a key trend for 2012. In this CW500 Club video, independent analyst Mike Ferguson, managing director of Intelligent Business Strategies, […]

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ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by Mike Ferguson, “A Decade of Hadoop”

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This is a ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop’s becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum behind it as a key component platform in big data analytics has been nothing short of enormous. In that time we have […]

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