JD.com security intelligence and analytics: From big data to big impact

R has long been criticized for its limitations on scalable data analytics. What's needed is an R-centric paradigm that enables data scientists to elastically harness cloud resources of manifold computing capability for large-scale data analytics. Le Zhang and Graham Williams demonstrate how to operationalize an E2E enterprise-grade pipeline for big data analyticsall within R.

Francisco Webber offers a critical overview of current approaches to artificial intelligence using "brute force" (aka big data machine learning) as well as a practical demonstration of semantic folding, an alternative approach based on computational principles found in the human neocortex. Semantic folding is not just a research prototypeit's a production-grade enterprise technology.

The power of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics emerges from the ability to analyze and compute large, disparate datasets from varied devices and locations, such as predictive medicine and automated cars, at lightning-fast speed. Martin Hall explains why collaboration and openness are the key elements driving innovation in AI.

Swisscom, the leading mobile service provider in Switzerland, also provides data-driven intelligence through the analysis of its mobile network. Its Mobility Insights team works to help administrators understand the flow of people through their location of interest. Franois Garillot explores the platform, tooling, and choices that help achieve this service and some challenges the team has faced.

Gary Marcus explores the gap between what machines do well and what people do well and what needs to happen before machines can match the flexibility and power of human cognition.

Federated analytics, a new approach to analyzing big data, supports unprecedented collaboration across large distributed datasets that contain proprietary and/or protected information. Gilad Olswang explains how Intel harnesses the power of federated analytics in the Collaborative Cancer Cloud project.