Big Data

Nate Silver shares the secrets of accurate predictions

In the wake of a surprising election season, famed statistician Nate Silver discussed forecasting problems and offered suggestions for software professionals

Companies use IoT tech to personalize products, enhance consumer appeal

STYR, BOLTT and Sensoria use IoT sensors and data analysis to personalize products. The approach allows them to have an ongoing relationship with their customers.

Coping with IoT data overload? Try 3D visualization

DottyView offers interactive visual IoT consoles using engineering drawings from Autodesk Forge’s 3D viewer for engineering models

Get started with TensorFlow

Begin harnessing the power of Google’s open source machine learning library with InfoWorld's hands-on tutorial

Is Trump’s unexpected victory a failure for big data? Not really

Polls go by the old IT maxim: 'Garbage in, garbage out'

Beware dodgy data analysis

Applying data analysis in absence of deep understanding of your business can have disastrous results.

Young tech entrepreneurs inspired by hearts, minds, stomachs, and not necessarily in that order

Babson Rocket Pitch participants share ideas on recording runners, moving on from Facebook & getting time sheets under control

In big data, industrialization is innovation

What every CIO should focus on in 2017

How to increase adoption of your big data analytics platform

Executives still mistrust insights from data and analytics

Organizations say they are increasingly focusing on data-driven decision-making to guide their businesses, but a majority of business leaders lack confidence in the insights generated from data and analytics.