Shamayita Acharya

Google and other search services filter the websites so that it could match your likes and needs best. Google knows a lot about its users. Your search engine is aware of your gender, age, the person you mean when typing ‘Luke', the websites you would love to visit, etc. This is handy. Under such circumstances, it is all about getting the expected results. In addition, contextual ads coupled with discounts help your bargaining. Some people would not appreciate that though. For instance, Internet activist Eli Pariser believes a filter bubble limits the liberties of a person blocking new ideas and important news. The privacy-oriented search engine called DuckDuckGo recently reported over thirty million queries a day processed by its search service. DuckDuckGo has added 50% to its market value in a single year and continues to grow rapidly ensuring no or strictly limited intervention to the user's personal data. According to the message shared by the company, the growth rate ...

Check out our recently published customer video! This video gives a look at how Orwell has built a new banking system to service millions of clients, supports regulatory compliance with financial services data and security regulations, including GDPR. Orwell Group is a regulated payments services provider specializing on one layer of the banking services stack: […] The post How Orwell Group’s New Banking Infrastructure is Transforming Customer Experience appeared first on Hortonworks .

On the flight back from the London Big Data Week, tasked with writing an article about the rise of identity theft, I had a rare moment of insight where the two topics suddenly presented themselves as two aspects of the same phenomenon. One of the primary values of working with Big Data, after all, is that one may use insights drawn from one aspect of consumer behaviour to drive innovation and insight into another. At a pretty basic level, for instance, the purchasing history of your customers can be paired with data on the way in which they navigate your website, and the insights gained can be used to drive improvement in each field. The thing is, this process is almost identical to that performed by identity thieves: comparing apparently discrete data sets to undermine the anonymity of both sets. This process can be usefully understood through the DIKW (Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom) Pyramid: at the lower levels of the pyramid, your customers might not care that you know th...

With the advent of IoT will come a massive demand for storage for Big Data. According to Forbes, once IoT gets underway we're likely to be flooded with data coming from IoT devices. While this is a valid concern, the fact of the matter is that Big Data is a perfect match for IoT and as more and more companies adopt the IoT standard, Big Data will come to play a huge part in how a company utilizes its IoT devices. Big Data allows for a unique way for isolating and tracking pertinent metrics to ensure that IoT devices are used to their fullest capability. As we can see, IoT stands to impact the Big Data fraternity in large part, thanks to its very existence. Storage for IoT Collected Big Data Big Data from IoT isn't a misuse of the word 'big'. Cisco estimates that by the close of 2019, we may be seeing as much as 500 zettabytes per year in data from the IoT. That works out to five hundred trillion gigabytes of data. In order to deal with IoT devices transmitting data ...

Hortonworks recently wrapped up the 2018 Dataworks Summits with nearly 4,500 registered attendees globally across events in Tokyo, Singapore, Berlin, Germany and San Jose, California.  Along with all our customers, we had over 60 global sponsors like IBM, NEC, Dell-EMC, Microsoft, Fujitsu, Teradata, Accenture, and NetApp who participated in Partner Accelerator sessions. Leading enterprises are […] The post Wrapping up Dataworks Summit 2018 with an Abundance of Customer Storytelling appeared first on Hortonworks .

With the nascent stage of the data revolution past us, organisations are entering a new level of proficiency in handling data expertly. Gone are the days when organisations could handle data and extract insights out of it, without the presence of an analytics platform. The importance of enterprise analytics platforms has grown over time, to such an extent that they are considered imperative for storing and analysing data today. As a member of the SAS Collaborator program, I had the luxury of receiving insights from an extended SAS survey assessing the likelihood of organisations going for analytics platforms and the motivating factors behind such a strategy. The research consisted of two parts, with the first one including interviews from over 132 government and business organisations. The second part consisted of an online global survey that attracted 477 respondents, all of whom came from a qualified background. The results were quite interesting and validated the importance of...

A few hundred years ago, the idea that you could do all your washing by machines would have seemed like alien technology. Now, most homes have dishwashers, washing machines and tumble dryers, freeing us up to relax after the working day by watching television or completing some other hobby. With technology advancing to the degree it has, we are now anticipating more additions to the home, making life as convenient as possible. For example, in the 1950’s the average time a person would spend on household chores through the week was an arduous 57 hours, compared to today where the average time spent is only 208 hours a year! Future advances, such as those listed below, aim to reduce this time further, allowing future generations to have more free time to work or pursue personal goals. Smart Windows There may be a day very soon where there is no need for blinds and curtains. Smart windows have been developed which are capable of being dark or transparent depending on the user’s prefer...

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider What’s the deal about the driver controls in AI self-driving cars? That’s one of the most popular questions I get asked when I am presenting at AI self-driving car events and Autonomous Vehicles (AV) conferences. At the Cybernetic AI Self-Driving Car Institute, we are developing AI software for self-driving cars, and the aspects of driver controls are also of crucial attention to our efforts, along with being notable for the efforts of the auto makers and other tech firms that are developing self-driving cars or so-called driverless or robot cars. For why I prefer to refer to them as self-driving cars, see my article: https://aitrends.com/selfdrivingcars/ai-reasons-call-self-driving-cars/ For my overall framework about AI self-driving cars, see my article: https://aitrends.com/selfdrivingcars/framework-ai-self-driving-driverless-cars-big-picture/ For my predictions about AI self-driving cars for the 2020s, 2030s, and 2040s, see my article:...

The American College of Radiology (ACR) Data Science Institute (DSI) announced the release of its first series of freely available standardized artificial intelligence (AI) use cases to increase the utilization of AI adoption in medical imaging. At present, the ACR DSI has use cases for breast imaging, cardiology, musculoskeletal, neurology, oncology, pediatrics and thoracic. The use cases are designed to guarantee that algorithms are applied to address clinical questions, used across several different electronic workflow systems and allow for quality assessment measures and comply with legal, regulatory and ethical measures. “The ACR DSI use cases present a pathway to help AI developers solve health care problems in a comprehensive way that turns concepts for AI solutions into safe and effective tools to help radiologists provide better care for our patients,” said ACR DSI Chief Medical Officer Bibb Allen Jr., MD, in a prepared statement. Multispe...

Ben Azvine, the Global Head of Security Research & Innovation at BT (formerly British Telecom), has been at the heart of cutting-edge network security developments at BT for several years and has helped develop a cybersecurity strategy that combines AI-enabled visualization of cybersecurity threats with highly-trained network security personnel. He shared some of his thoughts on the matter with attendees at this week’s Broadband World Forum event. “We are taking AI and making it help humans to be better… We are more about the Iron Man version of AI than the Terminator version,” he said, sparking ludicrous cinematic pitch ideas in the minds of some of his audience (I mean, Alien vs Predator sort of worked, right?). Azvine pointed out that with the number of connected devices growing rapidly, old ways of securing assets were no longer relevant: Now, companies (including network operators) need to think about having a cybersecurity strategy comprising three steps – prevention, dete...