Category Archives: Trends

Open Source is Big Business

Posted on March 24, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Red Hat proves open source is big business, as it just posted revenue of $2.05 billion for last year. Does the average person care much about Red Hat’s financial health and performance? Probably not. With that said, for the overall … Continue reading →

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Machine Unlearning

Posted on March 18, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Machine learning systems are everywhere. They predict the weather, forecast earthquakes, provide recommendations based on the books and movies we like, and even apply the brakes on our cars when we’re not paying attention.  Two scientists recently introduced the concept called “machine … Continue reading →

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Open Source Against Proprietary Data Science Vendors

Posted on March 17, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On Mar 15, 2016 Domino Blog published Open Source Winning Against Proprietary Data Science Vendors: “With the recent publication of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics, we wanted to know how proprietary data science software vendors were faring against open … Continue reading →

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Self-Driving Cars on the Roads by 2018?

Posted on March 15, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Andrew NG and Yuanqing Lin just published an article “Self-Driving Cars Won’t Work Until We Change Our Roads—And Attitudes“. Decision making in very complex situations is an essential part of this development. Here are some interesting quotes:

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AlphaGo Taught Itself

Posted on March 15, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The computer program that defeated the world Go champion taught itself how to improve its game by playing millions of matches against itself, according to the head of the Google subsidiary that developed the software. “In AlphaGo’s case, that involved … Continue reading →

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Rules-based Traffic Light Control

Posted on March 10, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

We are usually waiting 1-3 minutes for a green light even when the intersection is empty, right? In the Netherlands the waiting time maybe much smaller based on the actual conditions at the intersection. In this new post Silvie Spreeuwenberg talks about a new, intelligent traffic control … Continue reading →

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Silicon Valley’s Hangover

Posted on February 24, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Venture capital deal terms in last year’s fourth quarter signal further cooling in investors’ appetite for pouring money into startups, which sparked a multi-year economic boom throughout the Bay Area. Companies raising additional rounds of capital at lower valuations (“downrounds”) … Continue reading →

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Be Aware of Bad Analytics

Posted on February 16, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This FICO post warns: “The word ‘analytics’ now means anything from advanced optimization to recording the number of cars in the car park. And because it is now so general, it has been divorced from the underlying technical considerations that were … Continue reading →

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Big Data to Become a Consumer Tool

Posted on February 13, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Today big data is enterprise technology used to analyze markets, risk, fraud, consumers, energy sources, and more. But soon, it will be a consumer tool helping regular people to make better, wiser everyday decisions. For example, Google Now already is able to … Continue reading →

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The Millennial Customer

Posted on February 8, 2016 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Millennial customers (born 1980-2000) are bringing an entirely new set of expectations to the market. They think differently about customer service and about how they want to be treated in business interactions. This is a generation of consumers defined by … Continue reading →

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