Machine Learning Overview

Many organizations are immature when it comes to data and analytics use. The answer lies in delivering a greater level of insight from data, straight to the point of need. There are so many Data Architecture best practices today, accumulated from years of practice. In this webinar, William will look at some Data Architecture best practices that he believes have emerged in the past two years and are not worked into many enterprise data programs yet. These are keepers and will be required to move towards, by one means or another, so it’s best to mindfully work them into the environment.

Fanatics, a popular sports apparel website and fan gear merchandiser, needed to ingest terabytes of data from multiple historical and streaming sources transactional, e-commerce, and back-office systems to a data lake on Amazon S3. Once ingested, the data would be analyzed to better identify, predict, and fulfill customer needs related to the products Fanatics offers in over 300 online and offline stores. To accomplish this, Fanatics chose Attunity Replicate, a software solution featuring continuous data capture (CDC) and parallel threading for streaming data in real time from multiple sources into a data lake on Amazon S3. The data can then be consumed in Apache Kafka for real-time analytics. Attunity helps Fanatics avoid the heavy lifting of manually extracting data from disparate sources and enables the organization to see results in real time.

Data privacy regulation is bigger than just GDPR. Other countries and jurisdictions are enacting their own versions of the data privacy regulation, each with subtle nuances - such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD), and more - and that’s on top of existing privacy regulations. Moreover, consumers increasingly expect more protection for their sensitive information. A recent IBM-Harris poll of 10,000 individuals revealed that 75% of consumers won’t buy from companies they don’t trust no matter how great their product or service.

Equifax analysis indicates that approximately 91.5 million consumers in the US either have no credit file, or have insufficient information in the file to generate a traditional credit score. Your visibility into credit applicants determines whether you will offer more loans or miss profitable opportunities. By giving you incre