This paper describes various social innovations that can help people around the world embrace open source solutions for social causes. Social innovation from environment and energy conservation to hea …

Luke Han offers an overview of Apache Kylin and its enterprise version KAP and shares a case study of how a top finance company migrated to Apache Kylin on top of Hadoop from its legacy Cognos and DB2 system.

Build a great Open Source Project and they will come, but without solid financial management, the project will have a short life. Many people discover that being a great coder and/or math geek doesnt …

Taxes are one of consumers' most complex financial transactions, thanks to a tax code that is 80,000 pages long. Gang Wang explains how Intuit built the industrys only Tax Knowledge Engine, a constraint-based engine that encodes changing financial regulations and provides the foundation for a host of artificial intelligence technologies that save customers time and money.

Andy Steinbach shares case studies and applications in artificial intelligence that are having an impact on financial markets.

Romain Menegaux and Chakri Cherukuri demonstrate how to develop advanced applications and dashboards using open source projects, illustrated with examples in machine learning, finance, and neuroscience.

Tuomas Sandholm offers an overview of Libratusan AI that beat a team of four top specialist pros in heads-up no-limit Texas holdem, which has 10^161 decision pointsand explains how Strategic Machine is applying the domain-independent algorithms behind Libratus to a variety of imperfect-information games.

Big data used to be synonymous with Hadoop, but our ecosystem has evolved over time with new database, streaming and machine learning solutions which dont necessarily benefit from the Hadoop deployme …

Today, the Oath Media Brands and Products container platform is serving critical application workloads like Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance at a large scale using Kubernetes as the orchestration framew …

Regardless of whether or not you are a developer, there are many ways for you to get involved in open source. Tracy Kuhrt offers an overview of Hyperledger and its projects and outlines the ways that you can participate. You'll leave with a set of initial steps to begin your journey with this growing community.

Chao Zhong offers an overview of a new predictive model for customer lifetime value (LTV) in a cloud-computing business. This model is also the first known application of the Fader RFM approach to a cloud businessa Bayesian approach that predicts a customer's LTV with a symmetric absolute percentage error (SAPE) of only 3% on an out-of-time testing dataset.