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3 Data Mining Tips for Companies Trying to Understand their Customers

Smart Data Collective

Modern businesses that neglect to invest in big data are at a tremendous disadvantage in an evolving global economy. Smart companies realize that data mining serves many important purposes that cannot be overlooked. One of the most important benefits of data mining is gaining knowledge about customers.

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AI research tools might be creating more problems than they solve

Dataconomy

The authors point to a surge in single-factor analyses that disregard multifactorial complexity, exploit open data selectively, and bypass robust statistical corrections. Between 2014 and 2021 , just four such papers were published each year. But in 2024 alone, up to October 9, the tally had ballooned to 190.

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How Big Data Has Revolutionized the Gaming Industry

Smart Data Collective

Online shopping, gaming, web surfing – all of this data can be collected, and more importantly, analyzed. Most businesses prefer to rely on the insights gained from the big data analysis. With the help of data mining and machine learning, it is now possible to find the connections between seemingly disparate pieces of information.

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Shocking Ways Big Data Changed the Nature of Business Lending

Smart Data Collective

This has proven important too, with the value of loans provided by big banks having declined by 3% overall between 2014 and 2019. They also need to understand that big data has both created new opportunities and challenges. While big data has made P2P lending possible, it has also made loans more competitive.

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Announcing ODSC West and APAC 2023

ODSC - Open Data Science

In 2014 she was named the world’s first Chief AI Ethics officer. Mario Inchiosa, PhD Principal Data Scientist Manager | Microsoft Dr. Inchiosa’s current work focuses on AI-led co-innovation engagements. His past roles have included work in analytics, big data, R, SQL, data mining, and more.

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How to optimize your LinkedIn as a Data Scientist?

Pickl AI

Expansive Hiring The IT and service sector is actively hiring Data Scientists. In fact, these industries majorly employ Data Scientists. Python, Data Mining, Analytics and ML are one of the most preferred skills for a Data Scientist.

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10 takeaways from 10 years of data science for social good

DrivenData Labs

Looking back ¶ When we started DrivenData in 2014, the application of data science for social good was in its infancy. There was rapidly growing demand for data science skills at companies like Netflix and Amazon. Data science processes are canonically illustrated as iterative processes.