Get connected through these meetups in Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill
Scores of organizations hold regular meetups across the Triangle. Here is the latest list.
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Using ‘big data’ analytics to improve healthcare: Growing UNC Health Care data wranglers search for answers
Jason Burke, a former executive at SAS, now leads a team of some 40 people at UNC Health Care that is seeking to find ways in which “big data” analytics can be used to improve health care. In the first part of a QA, Burke talks about the challenges and opportunities his team faces.
Read MoreCompanies ramping up investments in data and cyber security, says leadership survey
Companies are boosting their investments in cybersecurity to avoid breaches and become compliant with new regulations.
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Looking for a meetup? Here’s the latest list of Triangle groups
Scores of organizations hold regular meetups across the Triangle. Here is a list as compiled by Derrick Minor for the City of Raleigh.
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The SAS future: Talking opportunities, succession, new IoT division, blockchain, augmented reality, more with Goodnight’s No. 2
While SAS focuses on data and analytics, the software giant also is at the forefront of embracing new and emerging technologies, from the Internet of Things to augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and more. The No. 2 exec at SAS takes a look at the future.
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SAS grows revenues for 42nd straight year, hitting $3.24B in 2017; hundreds of jobs available; new IoT group forming
SAS continues an incredible winning streak when it comes to revenue, improving sales in 2017 to a record $3.24 billion as the privately held software giant continues its stretch of annual dollar growth dating back to 1976. And SAS continues to recruit new workers both in Cary as well as around the world.
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Syngenta licenses big data analytics platform for use in crop development
Crop science giant Syngenta is licensing big data analytics technology from an Israeli firm to give a boost to seed research.
Read MoreWATCH: UNC Students Pitch Legal Stats, Making Sense of Crime and Court Data
Say you’re accused of a legal offense and you have to make the decision to fight it or plead guilty and hope for the best. Besides the advice of lawyers, there’s little hard data out there to help you make the decision. But Legal Stats is out to reverse that assumption. A team of UNC students found that data (at least in North Carolina) and is determined to make it usable. The plan for Legal Stats is to develop an algorithm that factors your offense, the arresting officer, race, age, neighborhood and the judge’s record to determine the likely...
Read MoreESPN’s FiveThirtyEight, Durham’s Automated Insights Headline Basketball Analytics Summit
Meet Debby Stroman, a PhD, UNC professor, former college basketball player and assistant coach, entrepreneur and sports business aficionado who is inspiring her students to start and launch businesses inspired by sport. This afternoon and tomorrow at UNC, she hosts the first Basketball Analytics Summit to introduce students and others in the community to sports analytics, an avenue that’s growing in significance. She figures that the region’s strength in entrepreneurship and its basketball rivalries make it a natural place for innovation in sports business and technology to happen. Industry leaders from around the nation are coming to speak and...
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