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This is a co-authored post written in collaboration with Moritz Steller, AI Evangelist, at John Snow Labs. Don't miss our virtual workshop, Extract Real-World Data with NLP, on July 15 to learn about our new NLP solutions. In 2015, HIMSS estimated that the healthcare industry in the U.S. produced 1.2 billion clinical documents. That’s a...

Inspiration doesn’t always come from our peers. Some of the best ideas come from innovators in other industries.This is especially true when it comes to data science and AI/ML innovations being applied to business processes and all aspects of operational decision-making. Consider fraud: Who knows how to analyze millions of data points in real-time better...

This blog post is the second in a series on ML platforms, operations, and governance. For the first post, see Rafi Kurlansik’s post on the "Need for Data-centric ML Platforms."   I recently spoke with a  Sr. Director of Data Platforms at a cybersecurity company, who commented, “I don’t understand how you can be future-proof...

This blog is the first in a series on MLOps and Model Governance. The next blog will be by Joseph Bradley and will discuss how to choose the right technologies for data science and machine learning based on his experience working with customers. Introduction Recently, I learned that the failure rate for machine learning projects...

At the Data + AI Summit, we were thrilled to announce the early release of Delta Lake: The Definitive Guide, published by O’Reilly. The guide teaches how to build a modern lakehouse architecture that combines the performance, reliability and data integrity of a warehouse with the flexibility, scale and support for unstructured data available in...

In a recent panel discussion, Richard Zananiri, Director of EMEA Mid-market at Databricks, was joined by four globally operating, high-growth cloud-native companies. Each organization is at the forefront of utilizing the power of data, ML and AI to solve business-critical issues within their respective sectors. The company representatives were asked to explain how they are...

The Chief Data Officer (CDO) is not a new position – Capital One reportedly had a CDO all the way back in 2002. But only recently has it become a mainstream, business-critical role for enterprises. In a recent study by NewVantage Partners, 65% of surveyed companies have a CDO position within their organization. And as...

Today, we're excited to announce the availability of Photon in public preview. Photon is a native vectorized engine developed in C++ to dramatically improve query performance. All you have to do to benefit from Photon is turn it on. Photon will seamlessly coordinate work and resources and transparently accelerate portions of your SQL and Spark...