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Superscript, a bespoke insurance provider for SMEs, raises $54 million

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Founded out of London in 2015, Superscript constitutes two core insurance businesses: an online-only “self-serve” platform that’s available to U.K. With another $54 million in the bank, the company said that it plans to bolster its underwriting and broking capabilities, and continue investing in its machine learning tooling.

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AI Chihuahua! Part I: Why Machine Learning is Dogged by Failure and Delays

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Going from a prototype to production is perilous when it comes to machine learning: most initiatives fail , and for the few models that are ever deployed, it takes many months to do so. As little as 5% of the code of production machine learning systems is the model itself. Adapted from Sculley et al.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

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Predictive analytics applies techniques such as statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning to the output of descriptive and diagnostic analytics to make predictions about future outcomes. In business, predictive analytics uses machine learning, business rules, and algorithms.

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The Impact of Machine Learning on IT Departments

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In much the same way businesses have been eager to use big data analytics to improve their operations, many companies have paid a lot of interest to the growing field of machine learning. Unlike some other tech trends that have come and gone, machine learning appears to be more than just some fad.

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4 Megatrends in Big Data in 2019 and Beyond

Agile Engine

2018 was the second consecutive year when Gartner published an obituary of Big Data. No one, including Gartner, thinks Big Data is dead. Au contraire, Big Data has grown so ubiquitous it became “just data”, argue the authors of the obituaries. Trend 1: From Big Data to “Just Data”.

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20% Discount to Attend Strata + Hadoop World 29 Sep – 01 Oct 2015 in NYC

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Have you seen what's new for 2015? Keynotes, sessions, and tutorials ranging from hard-core data science (web-scale machine learning and fault-tolerant data ingestion) to C-level data business strategy (case studies from Walmart, Goldman Sachs, and Sony) and more. Strata + Hadoop World sells out every time.

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How Big Data is Helping Improve Security

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Data breaches are happening with alarming regularity as organizations of all types struggle to manage the ever evolving threats that are out there. According to the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 85 percent of data breaches go undetected. Big data can also be used in machine learning techniques.