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Leveraging user-generated social media content with text-mining examples

IBM Big Data Hub

With nearly 5 billion users worldwide—more than 60% of the global population —social media platforms have become a vast source of data that businesses can leverage for improved customer satisfaction, better marketing strategies and faster overall business growth. What is text mining? How does text mining work?

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How process mining improves IT service management to save your business time and money

IBM Big Data Hub

For example, if a user’s email is down, they submit a ticket to IT. Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. Continuous process optimization and technological breakthroughs in process mining are now competitive differentiators.

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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. Arsene: It’s important to understand that crypto mining may seem benign.

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3 new steps in the data mining process to ensure trustworthy AI

IBM Big Data Hub

Sometimes as data scientists, we are often so determined to build a perfect model that we can unintentionally include human bias into our models. Often the bias creeps in through training data and then is amplified and embedded in the model. How does a data architecture impact your ability to build, scale and govern AI models?

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Data science vs data analytics: Unpacking the differences

IBM Big Data Hub

Though you may encounter the terms “data science” and “data analytics” being used interchangeably in conversations or online, they refer to two distinctly different concepts. Meanwhile, data analytics is the act of examining datasets to extract value and find answers to specific questions.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Without a doubt, there is exponential growth in the access to and volume of process data we all, as individuals, have at our fingertips. Not only can data support a more compelling change management strategy, but it’s also able to identify, accelerate and embed change faster, all of which is critical in our continuously changing world.

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Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data

Troy Hunt

Allegedly, Acuity had a data breach. That's the context that accompanied a massive trove of data that was sent to me 2 years ago now. It was only this week as I desperately tried to make some space to process yet more data that I realised why I was short on space in the first place: Ah, yeah - Acuity - that big blue 437GB blob.

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