So I just have to buy a Tableau license and I'm now a data scientist? Okay, let's just take that sales pitch with a grain of salt. I may be clueless, but I know there is more to data science than making pretty visualizations. I can do that in Excel. You got to admit it is slick marketing though. Charting data is the fun stage, and they leave out the painful and time-consuming parts of working with data: cleaning, wrangling, transforming, and loading it. Yes, and that is why I suspect there is value in learning to code. Maybe you can learn Alteryx. There's another software called Alteryx that allows you to clean, wrangle, transform, and load data.

Singapore/Bengaluru, 12-07-2019: Avanseus announces the release of 4.0 version of their Artificial Intelligence based Cognitive Assistant for Networks (CAN). The release is available from 12 th of July 2019 to all customers across the globe and for new upcoming requirements. This version of CAN is more suited for hassle-free operationalization and equipped with more intelligence and learning capability in comparison with its previous versions. The existing version CAN 3.0 is already powering the majority of telecom operators across the world with prediction success rate of more than 75% setting a benchmark in the industry. The new release will enable the customer in easy decision making and management of their network incidents as CAN 4.0 provides meaningful and relevant inputs on the important and critical fault predictions.

Visitors are tracked by face recognition technology from state-owned surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision at the Security China 2018 expo in Beijing. Hikvision is one of several firms that have been added to a U.S. trade blacklist. Visitors are tracked by face recognition technology from state-owned surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision at the Security China 2018 expo in Beijing. Hikvision is one of several firms that have been added to a U.S. trade blacklist. The Commerce Department has issued a list of 28 state security bureaus and tech companies in China that it says are being used to suppress the country's Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities – a move that blocks them from doing business with U.S. firms.

COPENHAGEN MUMBAI, October 07, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Pandora, a world-leading jewellery design and manufacturer, based in Copenhagen, as a strategic IT partner. The agreement with TCS marks a major milestone in Pandora's global IT transformation, which is part of Programme NOW, the company's brand relaunch and business turnaround plan. TCS will leverage its proven Machine First Delivery Model (MFDM), powered by ignio, its award-winning cognitive automation software, to enable the digital transformation. As the service integrator and manager, TCS will be responsible for the applications landscape and the end-user management, that will be aligned to Pandora's key business metrics. Peter Cabello Holmberg, CIO, Pandora, said, "Our agreement with TCS marks an important milestone for Pandora. Now we have our future-ready IT setup fully in place to support the Programme NOW objectives. And I am convinced that TCS with its global scale, retail expertise and cutting-edge solutions in relation to automation and AI will prove a perfect match for Pandora."

London design studio Sample & Hold has been asked to scan all kinds of things: a shoe, a carrot, the heads of every member of the Barcelona FC team. The firm has even worked with a company in Knightsbridge, London, that makes casts of babies' feet and heads. "Occasionally they have a client who wants a head scan of their kid," explains Sample & Hold director Sam Jackson. Those scans have been used for bronze casts of the child's head, and the 3D scan speeds up that process. Sample & Hold doesn't need lasers to do this 3D scanning.

Australia's Indigenous population is rich in linguistic diversity, with over 300 languages spoken across different communities. Some of the languages can be as distinct as Japanese is to German. But many are at risk of becoming extinct because they are not widely accessible and have little presence in the digital space. Professor Janet Wiles is a researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, known as CoEDL, which has been working to transcribe and preserve endangered languages. She says one of the biggest barriers to documenting languages is transcription. "How transcription is done at the moment is linguists select small parts of the audio that might be unique words, unique situations or interesting parts of grammar, and they listen to the audio and they transcribe it," she told SBS News.

On Valentine's Day, OpenAI gifted us a paper – Better Language Models and Their Implications – that rocked my educator's world. OpenAI had developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that had learnt, in an unsupervised way using millions of webpages, how to undertake writing tasks, many of which were of reasonable quality according to objective benchmarks. Imagine a future where an AI responds to an assessment task by producing original writing at pass or credit levels. No two responses would be the same because the AI would learn to check against what it and other AI had already produced. Traditional written assessment relies on students producing original work.

If you've never seen or been near (or inside) a self-driving car, the concept can seem a bit much. But the thing is, autonomous vehicle technology is already all over: in many of our human-controlled cars, on the road in driverless shuttles and vans, and coming from self-driving companies like Alphabet's Waymo, GM-funded Cruise, Amazon-backed Aurora, and Uber. Even if it sounds like a far-off, far-fetched, futuristic proposition, self-driving cars aren't sci-fi. Engineering simulation software company Ansys surveyed more than 22,000 adults from the U.S., UK, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Japan, China, and India about self-driving perceptions. The survey, out last week, found that older adults are less optimistic than younger adults about ever riding in a robocar.

Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US company HireVue, analyses the language and tone of a candidate's voice and records their facial expressions as they are videoed answering identical questions. It was used in the UK for the first time in September but has been used around the world for several years. Some 700 companies, including Vodafone, Hilton and Urban Outfitters have tried it out. Certainly there are significant benefits to be had from this.