Data & AI
Machines zijn er om de mens te helpen
Blogpost van Gerard Smit, IBM Chief Technology Officer Benelux – Distinguished Engineer & Reverse Historian | Dit artikel verscheen eerder in Dutch Cowboys Computers en robots kunnen straks meer dan wij ooit voor mogelijk hebben gehouden. Moeten we daar bang voor zijn of niet? Machines zijn er altijd geweest om de mens te ondersteunen en er […]
Big data analytics: deeper insights-driven financial performance
Blog by: Bart De Kempe Big data analytics: deeper insights-driven financial performance CFOs all used to rely on excel spreadsheets and past budgets in order to plan, budget and forecast. Answering questions such as: will customers pay on time; have we got too much stock; will production costs increase? Today, CFOs face challenges that no […]
IBM Social Software and Analytics helps to prevent breast cancer
What do women really know about breast cancer, and – even more crucially – what do they not know? The Minerva project was designed to provide an answer to these questions, and to put detail around them. By Joost Hanraets Up to the end of December 2013, women were able to request and share information […]
The rise of the data scientist
Written by: Marc Teerlink, Global Strategist & Chief Data Scientist at IBM and Olav Laudy, Worldwide Predictive Analytics Solutions Leader at IBM In the film Moneyball, Billy Beane takes over as manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team in California. With the club in dire financial straits, he adopts a highly unorthodox strategy for achieving […]
De Goldrush op Big Data
Elke dag genereren we 2,5 triljoen bytes aan gegevens. 90% van alle wereldwijde data vandaag, bestond niet in 2012.. Deze gegevens komen overal vandaan: van sensors die worden gebruikt voor het verzamelen van verkeersgegevens, van posts op social media-sites, van aankooptransactierecords, van GPS-signalen op smartphones, etc. Welkom in de wereld van Big Data. Big Data […]
Du Big Data a la Big City: guide de survie de la ville pour les 50 prochaines annees
Pendant la semaine du 5 au 11 mai, plus de 30 villes dans le monde vivront au rythme du Big Data. Rassurez-vous : ces villes ne sont pas à l’affût de vos données personnelles et ne vous submergeront pas de marketing urbain indésirable. Elles veulent, en revanche, exploiter le Big Data pour pérenniser leur avenir. Ces […]
Les données : la nouvelle richesse naturelle
La Big Data Week commence aujourd’hui. Événements, conférences, ateliers et séminaires… Plus de 30 villes du monde entier vivront au rythme du Big Data, du 5 au 11 mai. Parmi de grandes métropoles comme Atlanta, Berlin ou New York, citons aussi la Région wallonne. Une nouvelle preuve que la Wallonie a bien compris l’importance du […]
IBM’s 5 in 5: In the Future, Computers Will Learn
Imagine this: Your computer, the one you carry around in your pocket or purse, knows everything about you. With your permission, it knows about your relationships with the people, places and things in your world. It talks and listens to you. And, as your computer interacts with you and with the vast store of data […]
Improving the innovation value chain: Making academic research accessible
A pilot project by the Flanders government to link information on public research projects with dynamic analysis of the research content itself is building for a bright future – one in which academics and businesses will soon be able to access all research in the region at the click of a mouse. “The basic idea behind […]