Power BI is the self-service BI engine of Microsoft, this service provides ability for business users to work with data with easier tools and be able to do changes or build their own models on top of one or more data sources. This is a full day of Power BI with many live demos. Training starts with Power BI and its components (Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map, and Power Q&A). Course continues with real world demos of fetching data and transforming it with Power Query, loading and Modeling in Power Pivot and DAX, Visualizing it in Power BI Desktop and enhanced usage of Power Q&A. Many tips and best practices for using each component will be explained as well.

I gave a talk on Design Thinking for Data Scientists at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in February 2015. The talk was pretty much orthogonal to every other talk at the conference. But it was well received, so I thought I'd share the transcript with you (or your can watch the video). I'd be delighted to hear your thoughts and experiences around this topic of increasing the business impact of Data Scientists working in industry. This talk is primarily directed towards Data Scientists, especially early career Data Scientists, but its also highly relevant to those who manage Data Scientists. I'm using the term Data Scientist in a very broad sense, to mean anyone who is using data plus statistics plus programming to do something new, something that's never been done before in their organization. I'm going to talk about how and why Intuit is transforming it's Data Scientists into Design Thinking leaders.

In a first, a team of physicists is using artificial intelligence (AI) to run a complex experiment to create an extremely cold gas trapped in a laser beam known as a Bose-Einstein condensate -- thus replicating the experiment that won the 2001 Nobel Prize. Bose-Einstein condensates are some of the coldest places in the universe -- far colder than outer space and typically less than a billionth of a degree above absolute zero. They can be used for mineral exploration or navigation systems as they are extremely sensitive to external disturbances, which allows them to make very precise measurements such as tiny changes in the Earth's magnetic field or gravity. Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, along with German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, founded the basis for Bose-Einstein statistics. It describes the statistical distribution of identical particles with integer spin, now called subatomic particle or the "God particle" Boson.

The race is on for artificial intelligence in cybersecurity, empowering computer solutions with the ability to understand threats and respond immediately to them without (or with reduced) human intervention. Will it will survive the hype? A lot depends on how well the cybersecurity industry draws on the lessons we learned in trying to implement artificial intelligence in legal applications. IBM recently announced its foray into the cybersecurity–artificial intelligence arena using its flagship technology Watson. Watson has famously demonstrated its remarkable versatility already; so far it is has won the game show Jeopardy against two former champions and released its own cookbook (admittedly with mixed success from those who have tried the recipes). While it is a remarkable piece of technology, that doesn't necessarily equate to success in cybersecurity.

Grain storage operators are always trying to minimize the cost of their supply chain. Understanding relationship between receival, outturn, within storage site and between storage site movements can provide us insights that can be useful in planning for the next harvest reason, estimating the throughput capacity of the system, relationship between throughout and inventory. This article explores the potential of scanner data in advance analytics. Combination of these two fields has the potential to be useful for grain storage business. The study describes Grain storage scenarios in the Australian context.

Xero has global expansion plans for Xero Signals, its data service to help small business owners understand how they are faring compared to the larger market. "Signals will be rolled out globally, or where we have significant subscriber numbers which is Australia, UK and the US," says Anna Curzon, Xero's local managing director. "We have some initial data for the UK and we'll be rolling out Australia soon." With the use of big data and machine learning, SMBs can be alerted to economic trends in advance, she states. "The Xero platform is providing unique and real-time insights into the importance of small business in economies," she told the audience at a panel discussion on cross border e-commerce at the Tripartite Economic Summit in Auckland.

We live in a world of information abundance. The ability to create, produce, market and distribute content in almost any form has becoming very easy. So easy that a shocking amount of what we're reading is created not by humans, but by computer algorithms - perhaps even this post;). In the most recent post on strategy4telcomediatech I highlighted the need to consider the role that'bots' play particularly in automating conversational commerce - 'sales and service'. In this post I take a look at the use of'bots' or algorithmic content in digital media, how it is shaping our consumption habits, content creation and some of the capabilities required in both traditional and new media organisations. Algorithms and natural language generators have been around for a while.

Passengers on a 14-day cruise were treated to an unusual sight in Shark Bay, Australia - about 70 tiger sharks feeding on a dead whale. Tour group Eco Abrolhos told the BBC the humpback whale had died naturally. It said the sight was "something to tell the grandchildren".

Google is planning to put the art in artificial intelligence. The announcement was made at a session in Moogfest, a four-day music and technology festival in Durham, North Carolina. The company's artificial researcher Douglas Eck had developed a new group that would focus on figuring out what computers can truly create. The group is named Magenta, and they will launch more publicly at the start of June. However, the Moogfest attendees got an introduction on what it will be working on.

Artificial intelligence has become a larger part of our everyday lives in recent years. It's being used in medical devices, smart-home systems, and video games--to say nothing of robots and autonomous cars. And AI has even started to do what many people have feared: outsmart humans. In its June special report, The Institute dives into today's AI applications as well as its latest development: deep learning, in which machines teach themselves, then make decisions on their own. Here to answer questions about the future of AI are three experts in the field.