Who is the Data Engineer, the Key Player in your Data Projects?
In the past years, issues related to data analysis and data exploitation – through BI and Machine Learning – have become very significant in the business world. As a result, many companies have emerged or adapted to meet this new and growing need. However, we sometimes forget to mention another notable consequence of this trend: […]
Who is the Data Miner?
The Data Miner’s job is a specialization of the Data scientist‘s job, which focuses on the data exploration part: which data is useful? Do I need to add open data to get relevant results? Do I need to build specific algorithms to explore my data? What are his Objectives? The Data Miner make the company’s […]
Who is the Data Protection Officer?
Discover the Data Protection Officer job. What does he do ? How and why is he important ? The Role of a Data Protection Officer The Data Protection Officer is the person in charge of the data protection, as requested by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). His role is to monitor the data protection strategy to […]
What is a Smart City?
A year has passed since our first article about smart cities. Last year, 50% of the world’s population lived in cities, now it is 55%. This number should increase to 70% by 2050. Cities will keep growing and changing to face new issues : environment, power management… Cars do not fly yet but things are already […]
What is Machine Learning?
Machine Learning is hard to define and may mean different things but everybody will probably agree that it is an Artificial Intelligence subfield. AI means intelligence exhibited by machines. In Machine Learning, we teach machines to do things. What machines learn allows them to make smart decisions later on. However machines do not learn like […]
What is Object Detection?
Recently, there has been a lot of improvements in the Artificial Intelligence sector thanks to Deep Learning and image Processing. It’s now possible to recognize images or even find objects inside an image with a standard GPU. Fig.1 is an example of what could be obtained in a matter of milliseconds. Let’s take a look […]
What is Data Science? Definition & Goals
Data Science is a field allowing the collection, cleaning and analysis of data to uncover trends or knowledge. Definition Data Science is an interdisciplinary field between science and computing used to generate insights. It melts mathematics, scientific methods and processes. Thus, skills needed are various: from mathematics (Statistics and probability) and data engineering to computer […]
What is Churn Rate and How to Reduce It?
Churn rate, retention rate, two of the most important indicators in the fidelity of your dear customers or users. Especially monitored in the banking or insurance sector, they are now becoming an important criterion with today’s mass of data and the facilitation of their processing by solutions such as Saagie’s platform. Discover what the term […]
Artificial Intelligence and Sales Forecasting: the Perfect Match!
Artificial Intelligence – also called AI – is a groundbreaking technology and a central topic today and for sure will be one tomorrow too. Machine learning, voice or face recognition, virtual assistance… Artificial Intelligence utilisation is wide and adapted to every type of business. Do you know why you should use this new technology? Sales […]
Who is the Data Analyst?
The world of Big Data is evolving quickly with the emergence of new jobs such as the data analyst. But what does this job consist in? Why are they so important to explore your data and processes? Here are some answers to your questions. What is the Role of a Data Analyst? The first thing a […]
Who is the Data Steward?
A Data Steward is a data coordinator and your data lake administrator. He is the person in charge of your data management and classification. His main duty is to be responsible for your data quality standard and adapt it to your business by putting additional information to each of your data elements to make it a highly valuable […]
What is Predictive Maintenance?
By deeply analyzing and exploiting data every business is able to optimize its assets and operational performance. That is the concept of predictive maintenance. A Definition of Curative (or Corrective) Maintenance Curative maintenance consists in quickly repairing the machine after a breakdown happens. However, this technique is less and less efficient over time because of […]
