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[EVENT] O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

EmjaneIroy — Sun, 20 May 2018 07:51:47 GMT

Learn how to implement AI in real world projects—and unleash the business opportunities of applied AI.

Teradata is an exabyte sponsor of O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference September 7-9, 2018 in San Francisco, CA.

[EVENT] Teradata Innovation Forum - Charlotte

EmjaneIroy — Sun, 20 May 2018 07:05:35 GMT

Register Now

June 5, 2018

Overview

Join us June 5 in Charlotte for the Teradata Innovation Forum for peer networking, product updates and insightful sessions from both Teradata experts and Teradata customers. This complimentary event is also a great opportunity to share feedback on products with Teradata product owners, as well as discuss product features.

Key themes in 2018:

Teradata Analytics Platform

Teradata IntelliCloud

Teradata IntelliSphere™

Think Big Analytics and Teradata Velocity

Location:

Embassy Suites Charlotte Uptown

401 E. Martin Luther King Boulevard

Charlotte, NC 28202

Forum Schedule:

Registration and Breakfast 8:00am - 8:45am

Meeting 8:45am - 4:15pm

Networking Reception 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Keynote:

Chad Meley – Vice President of Product Marketing, Teradata

Chad Meley is Vice President of Product Marketing at Teradata, responsible for Teradata’s Analytical Ecosystem and Artificial Intelligence solutions. Chad understands trends in the analytics and big data space, and leads a team of technology specialists who interpret the needs and expectations of customers while also working with Teradata engineers, consulting teams and technology partners. Prior to joining Teradata, he led Electronic Arts’ Data Platform organization that supported Game Development, Finance and Marketing. Chad has held a variety of other leadership roles centered around data and analytics while at Dell and FedEx. Chad holds a BA in economics from The University of Texas, an MBA from Texas Tech University, and performed post graduate work at The University of Texas.

Sponsors:

[EVENT] Open Registration, Expanded Offerings Teradata Analytics Universe

EmjaneIroy — Tue, 15 May 2018 02:00:03 GMT

Held Oct. 14-18 at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Rein Las Vegas, Teradata Analytics Universe — features more than 3,000 attendees from 45 countries, all looking to network and leverage the analytics expertise and success stories of the world’s most forward-thinking, global companies.

Come! Join us!

REGISTER NOW!

To learn more, click HERE.

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[EVENT] Learn About Teradata IntelliCloud and How We Build Microservices

EmjaneIroy — Sat, 12 May 2018 03:08:48 GMT

REGISTER NOW!

Location:

Teradata

13810 SE Eastgate Way

Suite 500, Bellevue, WA

98005

Date: May 17, 2018

Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM PDT

Come join the Teradata Cloud Engineering team for a meet and greet event on Thursday, May 17, 2018, and learn about how we are building microservices using server less architecture that span a multi-cloud environment. This is a great opportunity to learn about the team here in Bellevue and network with fellow cloud engineers in your area.

In this event, you will learn about:
a) Teradata, what we do and how we are transforming the industry.
b) How to build distributed services on modern stack – microservices, serverless.
c) Meet the friendly engineers on our team and see why it is fun to work at Teradata.

Event Details:

Thursday, May 17, 2018. 6:30 to 8:00 pm.
Check-in will begin at 6:30 PM and the presentation will start at 7:00 PM.
Free onsite parking (in the open parking lot in front of the building).
Food & Beverages will be provided.

Speaker: Prasanna Jayapal, Director of Engineering, Teradata IntelliCloud.

[EVENT] Columbus Teradata Innovation Forum

EmjaneIroy — Sat, 12 May 2018 02:57:40 GMT

Location: Conference Center at OCLC, Columbus, Ohio

Date: May 15, 2018

Time: 8:00 - 6:00PM ET

Join us May 15 in Columbus for the Teradata Innovation Forum for peer networking, product updates and insightful sessions from both Teradata experts and Teradata customers. This complimentary event is also a great opportunity to share feedback on products with Teradata product owners, as well as discuss product features.

REGISTER NOW!

Blog Create/Write Access Request Process

EmjaneIroy — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 01:30:11 GMT

Process for providing blog create/write access in the Data Science Community.

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Data Science Community	http://data-science-community.teradata.com
Data Science Community support mailbox	Community.DataScience@Teradata.com

Create A Blog Article

EmjaneIroy — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 06:03:02 GMT

Creating a blog article is similar to posting a message on a forum, but with a few additions. With blogs, you can:

Save a blog article as a draft so that you don’t need to complete an article in a single session.
Add labels to an article to make it easier for readers to find related articles.

To create a blog article:

1. Go to the Blogs & Best Practices => Data Science Blog Posts.

You have 2 ways to access the page:

At the side menu, hover on Blogs & Best Practices. Then click on Blog Posts.
At the middle of the home page, click on the Blogs and Best Practices widget. Then click on Data Science Blog Posts.

2. There are several Blog areas to post your blog article/s on. You may choose from among the listing of blog topics.

3. Then click New Article in the Blog Dashboard.

4. Add a subject and teaser for the article.

The subject is the article’s title.

The teaser, with a Read more... link, appears on the blog’s front page and gives readers an idea of what the article is about. If you don’t provide a teaser, the entire article appears on the blog’s front page.

5. Enter the body of your article.

You can format the text, add emoticons, insert a horizontal rule, add links, or insert an image.

6. Click Spell Check.

7. To be notified when someone comments on this article, click E-mail me when someone replies.

8. You may add tags and labels to help readers find related posts.

Note: Tags must be single words, separated by commas. Labels can be phrases, separated by commas. Both tags and labels are used to organize or categorize articles and both appear in components. However, only a blog author (or an administrator) can add labels to an article; any member of the community can add tags.

9. Click Browse… under Attachments if you want to add a file to the article.

10. Click Post to publish the article or Save Draft to save your work in progress.

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[Webinar Replay] "Join the Analytic Revolution: Build an Analytic-driven Enterprise" with James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions and Ed White of Teradata

EmjaneIroy — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:23:56 GMT

The analytics revolution has begun! Analytics has become an inherent part of business decisions driving strategic direction, enabling smarter day to day tactical decisions and enabling autonomous decisioning. The analytic enterprise applies analytics deeply and broadly by taking advantage of the explosion of analytics tools and engines within this complex and fast changing analytic ecosystem.

The replay of this webinar, with industry analyst James Taylor of Decision Management Solutions and Ed White of Teradata, discusses the steps to create an analytic enterprise while derisking your analytic platform decision. You’ll learn how thriving analytic enterprises are able to harness analytic technologies to meet their needs for today and the future.

SIGN UP TO DOWNLOAD THE WEBCAST

[EVENT] Teradata | Vienna DataThon

RB186082 — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:01:54 GMT

DATATHON | April 20-21 2018

Driving Democracy with Data in Central and Eastern Europe

[Event] O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

EmjaneIroy — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 01:59:13 GMT

O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference

April 30 - May 2, 2018

New York Hilton Midtown, New York City, NY

[EVENT] Teradata Universe 2018

EmjaneIroy — Sat, 12 May 2018 04:26:40 GMT

Join the Brightest Minds in Data and Analytics

Think Data is an imperative for organisations, reflecting the need to adopt a data-centric approach and Drive Business.

Teradata Universe 2018 is the premier conference, filled with unparalleled networking opportunities, inspirational sessions and innovative technologies that grant companies the ability to truly exploit the value in their data and be successful.

Teradata Universe - London

Teradata Universe - Beijing

Teradata Universe - Tokyo

[Webinar] De-risking your Analytics Platform Decision with the Teradata Analytics Platform

community_manag — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 06:32:35 GMT

NEW: De-risking your Analytics Platform Decision with the Teradata Analytics Platform

12:00 - 1:00 pm ET / 9:00 - 10:00 am PT

START DATE: 2/13/2018

START TIME: 11:00 AM CST

DURATION: 60 MINUTES

Teradata has transformed from a Data Warehouse to an Analytic Platform. Our modern analytics platform enables data scientists and analytic users throughout the organization to use their preferred advanced analytic tool for the descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.

The webinar focuses on:

Teradata’s transition from a data warehouse to the Teradata Analytics Platform and what that means for you
Open source and commercial technologies integrated to provide the flexibility and enhance the user experience
De-risking your analytics platform decision with the ability to incorporate cutting-edge analytics and easily move across multiple deployment options

Speakers:

If you're already registered for the De-risking your Analytics Platform Decision with the Teradata Analytics Platform webcast, click below:

[Webinar] For Transformational Outcomes with AI, think Augmented Intelligence - not Automated Intelligence

community_manag — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 02:49:06 GMT

NEW: For Transformational Outcomes with AI, think Augmented Intelligence - not Automated Intelligence

11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET / 8:30 - 9:30 am PT

START DATE: 2/15/2018

START TIME: 10:30 AM CST

DURATION: 60 MINUTES

AI tools and technologies are rapidly maturing and enterprises are racing to develop business cases to underpin AI initiatives. These business cases tend to fall along two lines:

Automated Intelligence - Automating human behavior to achieve parity on commonly performed, repetitive tasks
Augmented Intelligence - Making smarter decisions by extracting insights that far exceed the abilities of any person or team

This webinar will address:

Why Augmented Intelligence delivers more value than Automated Intelligence
Critical capabilities required for Augmented Intelligence
Practical enterprise case studies featuring Augmented Intelligence

Speakers

Special Guest

If you're already registered for the For transformational outcomes with AI, think Augmented Intelligence, not Automated Intelligence webcast, click below:

[Event] 2018 Teradata Innovation Forum - March 8th - May 15th, 2018

EmjaneIroy — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:35:54 GMT

2018 Teradata Innovation Forum™:

The Teradata Innovation Forum is a great opportunity for you to learn more about how organizations can use data to deliver better business outcomes through technology-enabled solutions. This educational one-day seminar provides insightful sessions from both Teradata experts and Teradata customers.

Learn about the modern analytics landscape and how you can leverage the Teradata Analytics Platform and Artificial Intelligence to deliver new business insights.

What’s new for 2018!

Teradata Innovation Forum
• “Meet the experts” roundtables featuring Teradata product managers.
• Deeper focus on the latest technology and innovation trends

Data Science Workshops
• Designed to give data scientists, business analysts and technical programmers (e.g., R, Python) a “day in the life of a data scientist” experience.
• In select cities, including Dallas, San Jose, Toronto, Boston, New York and Seattle the day following each Teradata Innovation Forum.

Webinar Series
• Teradata Innovation Forum-sponsored webinar events throughout 2018
• Look for an invite to the February 13 webinar “De-risking your Decision with the Teradata Analytics Platform”

We hope to see you at a Teradata Innovation Forum or Data Science Workshop - REGISTER HERE or click on the city near you.

Locations and Dates

CITY	DATE	KEYNOTE
Dallas Innovation Forum Hyatt Regency DFW	March 8	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
Dallas Data Science Workshop Hyatt Regency DFW	March 9

San Jose Innovation Forum The GlassHouse	March 13	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
San Jose Data Science Workshop The GlassHouse	March 14

Toronto Innovation Forum Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel	April 3	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
Toronto Data Science Workshop Marriott Toronto Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel	April 4

Boston Innovation Forum Sheraton Needham Hotel	April 5	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
Boston Data Science Workshop To be determined	April 6

Minneapolis Innovation Forum Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown	April 10	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer

Charlotte Innovation Forum Embassy Suites Charlotte Uptown	April 12	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer

New York Innovation Forum Convene	April 19	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
New York Data Science Workshop Convene	April 20

Atlanta Innovation Forum Buckhead Theatre	May 8	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer

Seattle Innovation Forum W Bellevue	May 10	Stephen Brobst Chief Technology Officer
Seattle Data Science Workshop W Bellevue	May 11

Columbus Innovation Forum The Conference Center at OCLC	May 15	TBD

If you have any additional questions about the 2018 Teradata Innovation Forums or Data Science Workshops, please contact Barb Cady.

Single Malt Sampler - Kailash Purang

dm — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:19:42 GMT

Industry

Beverage

Analyst

Kailash Purang, lead Data Scientist for Teradata in Singapore

About the Insights	About the Analytics	About the Analyst
Can analytics radically simplify the intricacies, nuances and 700 plus year history of Scotch Whisky? Kailash Purang says yes and takes on the expert palates of the Scotch Whisky Masters armed only with his data set. His visualization groups 86 single malt brands in terms of 12 flavor characteristics like sweetness, smoky, honey and nutty into like flavor groups. It presents them in a simple graphical form so we can all understand the differences and similarities between the various single malt brands. Each dot (or node) represents a single malt brand. Each line (or edge) represents the strength of the similarity between the whiskies, the thicker and darker the line, the more similar in taste. Thus natural clusters form with similar tasting single malts closer together and highly connected. This type of analytic is used in food science. It can be matched with market share and segment profile data to engineer new flavor styles designed to appeal to high value segments and or reposition existing brands to appeal to new segments. Its also provides a ‘cheat sheet’ for bar and retail staff, instantly giving them the expert knowledge to recommend new brands to sample or substitute brands when a clients favorite single malt is not available. For the every day consumer it also offers a fun way to explore a wonderfully complex subject. If you like the taste profile of one brand you can now try others that are similar or use it to explore very different flavor types. Either way you will be guaranteed a great night out. Cheers, Kailash! See you at the bar?	This Teradata Aster visualization shows a Gephi representation of an Aster Lens produced graph using the University Of Strathclyde’s Whisky Classification open data set. It covers 86 single malt Scotch Whisky brands across 12 expert rated flavor characteristics along with their distillery geo co-ordinates. It uses cosine similarity to group the whiskies by their flavor types yet cater for sparse data caused by single malts that have none of a certain flavor type. For example some single malts have no ‘sweetness‘ or no ‘medicinal’ taste, which creates many zero flavor ratings. Cosine similarity deals well with a proliferation of zeros, which can otherwise be a defining factor in clustering. The Aster Lens visualization is created using the GraphGen function in Teradata Aster. The nodes are of equal size representing the equal weight of the different single malts, the links indicating the strength of similarities.	Kailash is the lead Data Scientist for Teradata in Singapore. He also works across South East Asia and most notably in Indonesia, supporting the leading banking and communication industry clients Teradata serves in the region. Kailash holds a Bachelor of Economics and Statistics as well as a Masters in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Management from University Of London. He has worked in the field of analytics for 15 years across various industries. Despite having ‘sold his soul’ to join the commercial world, he still believes that the aim of all this learning and technology is to make people’s life easier and more fun. To help introduce analytics in a fun ‘tear-less’ way, he works in his spare time on creating visualizations that show how everybody can benefit from simple analytic applications. As a Data Scientist for Teradata, he strives to make his clients realize the full potential of ‘Big Data’ so that their customers can benefit via better services and offerings.

About the Insights

About the Analytics

About the Analyst

Can analytics radically simplify the intricacies, nuances and 700 plus year history of Scotch Whisky? Kailash Purang says yes and takes on the expert palates of the Scotch Whisky Masters armed only with his data set. His visualization groups 86 single malt brands in terms of 12 flavor characteristics like sweetness, smoky, honey and nutty into like flavor groups. It presents them in a simple graphical form so we can all understand the differences and similarities between the various single malt brands.

Each dot (or node) represents a single malt brand. Each line (or edge) represents the strength of the similarity between the whiskies, the thicker and darker the line, the more similar in taste. Thus natural clusters form with similar tasting single malts closer together and highly connected. This type of analytic is used in food science. It can be matched with market share and segment profile data to engineer new flavor styles designed to appeal to high value segments and or reposition existing brands to appeal to new segments. Its also provides a ‘cheat sheet’ for bar and retail staff, instantly giving them the expert knowledge to recommend new brands to sample or substitute brands when a clients favorite single malt is not available.

For the every day consumer it also offers a fun way to explore a wonderfully complex subject. If you like the taste profile of one brand you can now try others that are similar or use it to explore very different flavor types. Either way you will be guaranteed a great night out. Cheers, Kailash! See you at the bar?

This Teradata Aster visualization shows a Gephi representation of an Aster Lens produced graph using the University Of Strathclyde’s Whisky Classification open data set. It covers 86 single malt Scotch Whisky brands across 12 expert rated flavor characteristics along with their distillery geo co-ordinates.

It uses cosine similarity to group the whiskies by their flavor types yet cater for sparse data caused by single malts that have none of a certain flavor type. For example some single malts have no ‘sweetness‘ or no ‘medicinal’ taste, which creates many zero flavor ratings. Cosine similarity deals well with a proliferation of zeros, which can otherwise be a defining factor in clustering. The Aster Lens visualization is created using the GraphGen function in Teradata Aster. The nodes are of equal size representing the equal weight of the different single malts, the links indicating the strength of similarities.

Kailash is the lead Data Scientist for Teradata in Singapore. He also works across South East Asia and most notably in Indonesia, supporting the leading banking and communication industry clients Teradata serves in the region.

Kailash holds a Bachelor of Economics and Statistics as well as a Masters in Economics from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Management from University Of London. He has worked in the field of analytics for 15 years across various industries.

Despite having ‘sold his soul’ to join the commercial world, he still believes that the aim of all this learning and technology is to make people’s life easier and more fun. To help introduce analytics in a fun ‘tear-less’ way, he works in his spare time on creating visualizations that show how everybody can benefit from simple analytic applications.

As a Data Scientist for Teradata, he strives to make his clients realize the full potential of ‘Big Data’ so that their customers can benefit via better services and offerings.

The Art of Analytics
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Teradata Partners 2017 Keynote

dm — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:49:42 GMT

Does the future live only in the greatest minds?

It's not about being born a genius.
It's seeing the world from a truly unique perspective.
To follow your heart when no one else believes.
To have the courage to push pass the edge of possibilities.
To embrace passion and live your life on the edge of what is real.
You see tomorrow not as another day, but where The Edge of Next is just the beginning.

The future is about following a clear vision.
Being not only an innovator but an unstoppable force for good in the universe.
And, having the courage to walk with Giants and to live your life on The Edge of Next.

The video is from the Teradata PARTNERS Conference, which is the premier, global data and analytics conference, led by customers for customers. At PARTNERS, you were able to meet and learn from change-agents and practitioners—those marching to their own tune.

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NOTE: This is a 360 video. You can use the direction toggle to move around the image and experience the full 360 perspective.

Teradata Aster Analytics Portfolio

dm — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 19:56:20 GMT

Teradata Aster Analytics Portfolio 7.0 has been extended to include IoT analytics, visual workbench, extended R interface to Aster Analytics and Spark connector. These additions allow your customers to tackle more use cases and broaden the use of Aster Analytics across the analytic community.

Danske Bank: Innovating in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to Detect Sophisticated Fraud

dm — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:58:48 GMT

Progressing in their Artificial Intelligence strategy with Deep Learning, Danske Bank is using a ‘champion/challenger’ model strategy. Results have been dramatic.

60% Reduction in False Positives -- Saving investigators significant time. Allowing them to investigate the real cases of fraud.
50% Increase Detecting True Positives after Danske Bank applied Deep Learning.

That translate into "real money" - a real benefit.

	Putting winning results together took an eclectic (diverse) team, platform, technical & data engineers, data scientists, the business and even highly trained criminal investigators -- combined with experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning, Danske Bank is just scratching the surface with results for the business.

What is it about Artificial Intelligence (AI) that excites us data geeks? Is it the delivery of a promise given to us decades ago? Or endless possibilities that AI can give us now? Probably a little of both. For Danske Bank, it’s giving business outcomes that deliver exciting results and AI is inspiring everyone on the team!

“Hands down, this is a high point in my career! I’m a science guy, so I love these methods and talking about some of the more complex stuff. It’s definitely worth it; hands down. Is it easy? No.” – Nadeem Gulzar, Head of Global Analytics

Congratulations to Danske Bank for all the success in this renaissance of Artificial Intelligence!

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[Webinar] From Data to Action using Visualization at Walmart - October 3rd, 2017

dm — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:02:14 GMT

From Data to Action using Visualization at Walmart

LIVE Webinar

DATE		Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
TIME		10 AM PT / 12 PM CT / 1 PM ET
DURATION		60 mins
Register Now

MORE INFORMATION:

Data is powerful. It can both inform and inspire—and can even be a catalyst for change. In this session, Walmart and Teradata will discuss critical success factors for leveraging data to create business value at scale. A key theme will be how to go beyond “pretty” visualizations to “actionable” visualizations. Democratizing access to data throughout the enterprise—from corporate headquarters all the way into stores—creates actionable insight with the right data to the right decision-makers in the right form to yield breakthrough business results. Register now.

SPEAKERS

Stephen Brobst

Chief Technology Officer

Teradata

Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer for Teradata Corporation. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed a MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama's first term, he was also appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information TechnologyResearch and Development (NITRD). He was ranked in 2015 by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.

Heidi Daniels

Director of Engineering, Data and Analytics Technologies, Walmart Labs

Walmart

In her role Heidi is instrumental in helping Walmart Stores, Inc solve some of the biggest problems in the world. Her Data and Analytics tools enable Walmart leadership to ask and answer questions that help serve the more 260 million customers that visit our stores every week. Heidi is an accomplished leader with a background in technology and business facing roles, including Data Center management, network systems, and cloud computing. She started her 20 year career on the Data Warehousing group supporting Teradata. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Information Systems Technologies from Southern Illinois University.

Learn More and Register Now!

The Art of Analytics Poster

dm — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:36:55 GMT

by Tony Ohlsson, Alexander Heidl & Christopher Hillman

The Art of Analytics is a collection of Big Data Visualizations presented as art, created by the Teradata analytic community. The striking images stand as beautiful modern art pieces and yet also tell a story that reveals new insights and meaning from data that surrounds us in our everyday life. The Art of Analytics was created by Tony Ohlsson to inspire new analytic ideas through openly sharing the amazing work analysts create with big data technology. Alexander Heidl is the Art Director for the collection and Christopher Hillman the Lead Data Scientist. To see the full collection or learn more about this artwork please visit us on teradata.com/artofanalytics.

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