Archives for September, 2019 - Page 7


Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, this month announced the expansion of its Hyderabad development centre. The Hyderabad expansion is an integral part of Informatica’s global R&D investment, which exceeds $200 million a year, and enables the company to support its continued growth in India, propelled by its Hyderabad centre. The Hyderabad facility is…
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Deloitte this month announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind public data visualization tool, Open Source Compass (OSC) intended to help C-suite leaders, product managers and software engineers understand the trajectory of open source development and emerging technologies. The information curated and shared through the new data visualization tool will provide insights to inform key business…
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Online Data Science Courses Vs Project-Based Learning: What Should Aspiring Data Scientists Go For?


The online courses for data science and related tech are overflowing and there are many institutes and individuals offering online, offline, full-time, part-time, short-term and long-term courses for aspiring data scientists. However, one crucial debate that often takes a centre stage, is whether one should opt for online data science courses or stick to project-based…
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Grant For The Web: How A Company Wants To Help You Challenge Tech Giants’ Control Over The Internet


The most prevalent form of a web-based business relies heavily on advertising revenue. In recent times, this model of online business has led to various issues related to user privacy, where ad trackers are constantly tracking web searches. The problem is worsened with clickbait content and companies selling user data to third parties. When Facebook…
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Deep Learning has benefited primarily and continues to do so thanks to the pioneering works of Geoff Hinton, Yann Lecun and Yoshua Bengio in the late 1980s. Contributions of Yann Lecun, especially in developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence form the basis of many products…
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With time the way companies recruit people is changing significantly. More than your qualifications, your skills and expertise are gaining more importance in the employer’s eyes. There are even articles on platforms like Glassdoor that lists companies who no longer ask candidates for college degrees but look for skills and expertise. When it comes to…
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A self-driving car should be accurate — there is no room for second-guessing. A self-driving car’s accuracy improves drastically if it has been trained on data that has been annotated with parameters like colours, shapes, sizes, signs and angles. The question here is where can one get that kind of data? Today, data labelling has…
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Data was on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mind at the Howdy Modi event held in Houston, Texas last week. Speaking at the NRG stadium, alongside US President Donald Trump, PM Modi described data as the “new oil and gold” and said that India had the potential to lead the world in Industry 4.0, which is dependant…
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Google has showcased a plethora of new services targeted towards Indian customers. The search engine giant has emphasised that India is a critical market for its services and a place where they will be focusing heavily in the coming decade. India is at the cusp of becoming an economic superpower, targeting to become a $5…
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The way strategies — both defensive and offensive — are evolving in cybersecurity is incredible. There was a time when it was all about taking systems down with attacks like DDoS, phishing, malware; then ransomware came into the picture; and today, the strategies to pwn computers have reached a whole new level. Threat actors have…
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