One of the top 10 trends in data and analytics this year as leaders navigate the covid-19 world, according to Gartner, is "augmented data management." It's the growing use of tools with ML/AI to clean and prepare robust data for AI-based analytics. Companies are currently striving to go digital and derive insights from their data, but the roadblock is bad data, which leads to faulty decisions. "I was talking to a university dean the other day. It had 20,000 students in its database, but only 9,000 students had actually passed out of the university," says Deleep Murali, co-founder and CEO of Bengaluru-based Zscore. This kind of faulty data has a cascading effect because all kinds of decisions, including financial allocations, are based on it.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. Computer scientists have created a deep-learning, software-coding application that can help human programmers navigate the growing multitude of often-undocumented application programming interfaces, or APIs. Designing applications that can program computers is a long-sought grail of the branch of computer science called artificial intelligence (AI). The new application, called Bayou, came out of an initiative aimed at extracting knowledge from online source code repositories like GitHub. Users can try it out at askbayou.com.

In the ever-changing technology landscape, IT experts feel blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics are going to lead the way in 2018. Cyber security, which is very critical for all these newer technologies, will also hold promise, they feel. Dimension Data, an arm of NTT Group, has come out with a report that captures the likely technology trends that could drive the IT landscape in 2018. "There has been an increase in adoption of blockchain, especially within the Indian BSFI sector. It is currently being used for fund transfers, digital identity and payments infrastructure. One of the main reasons for that is the security that blockchain brings with it," said KN Murali, Head - Solutions, Dimension Data.