Databricks Ingest platform simplifies data management for analytics
Databricks has announced a new Ingest platform to simplify data management for business intelligence (BI) and machine learning applications.
The provider of data science software describes its approach as a data lakehouse, referring to the unification of data lakes and data warehouses. In this w... Read more
Google completes billion-dollar acquisition of BI firm Looker
Google announces that it has officially completed the acquisition of Looker. The acquisition of 2.6 billion dollars (2.3 billion euros) was awaiting approval from a British regulator.
In June 2019, Google announced that it was taking over the business intelligence (BI) provider, with the immedia... Read more
Google Cleargrasp AI improves recognition of transparent objects
Optical sensors such as cameras and lidar (LIght Detection And Ranging) have become an important part of modern robotics for spatial recognition. However, there is one drawback, and that is that transparent objects, such as glasses or bottles, tend to 'confuse' the sensors. Google claims to have a ... Read more
Google develops solution for predicting long-term effects of AI
In order to find out whether an AI model makes fair predictions, data scientists must be able to study the short-term effects of AI, but also the long-term effects. This is now made possible by Google with the ML-fairness-gym, a number of components which, together, can simulate the operation of al... Read more
Dataiku creates a community for data scientists
Dataiku has told Techzine about the introduction of the Dataiku Community, which is intended for professionals in data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).
With the Dataiku Community, the data science-unicorn brings different resources together. For example, users will hav... Read more
Google open-sources AI model for text generation
Google researchers have developed LaserTagger, an open source model that predicts a sequence of text edits. In this way, a source text can be converted into a target text. Google claims that LaserTagger deals with text generation in a way that is less prone to malfunctions. The model is also easier... Read more
Researchers succeed in restoring faded photographs with AI
Moving a bit too much with a camera while taking a picture, or someone moving in the background for a moment: your whole picture will be ruined, as faces will become blurred. Researchers from three universities (in the United Arab Emirates, Beijing and New York) have managed to make such photos rec... Read more
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.4 with library updates
Facebook recently launched a new version of its deep learning framework PyTorch. The update goes under the name PyTorch 1.4 and includes limited Java support, adjustments to the mobile version of the framework and various upgrades for the audio, vision and text libraries.
PyTorch is one of the m... Read more
How do you create a data culture in your company?
Organisations with a clear data culture are more profitable than companies that do not. But where is a data culture? And if you want to, where to start? Just installing new software is not enough, according to Tableau, the vendor of software for data analytics and visualisation.
While travelling... Read more
Google develops AI model for recognising breast cancer
Google has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, which claims to be able to identify breast cancer more accurately than trained radiologists.
The project is the result of a research collaboration between Google Health, the Cancer Research UK Imperial Centre, Northwestern University, R... Read more