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One Simple Chart: Who Do Consumers Trust with their Data?

As machine learning and AI begin to show up in more applications and products, companies need to pay attention to concerns about data privacy and security. This isn’t news – companies have had to act as regulators all over the world have put in place data privacy regulations (there are many versions, but GDPR andContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Who Do Consumers Trust with their Data?”

One Simple Chart: Spark NLP goes international

About a year ago, I posted a chart that showed the geographic distribution of users of Spark NLP, an open source, natural language processing library built on top of Apache Spark. With the recent release of version 2.5, Spark NLP now provides support for 14 new languages (more languages than any other open-source library). IContinue reading “One Simple Chart: Spark NLP goes international”

One simple chart: online learning platforms

With most of us spending most of our time at home, I was curious to see how “shelter at home” orders translated to traffic to various online learning platforms. I looked at nine online learning platforms and on average, traffic jumped 62% from March to April 20201: Visits to Pluralsight surged in April (up 189%Continue reading “One simple chart: online learning platforms”

Understanding the Ray ecosystem and community

Ray is both a general purpose distributed computing platform and a collection of libraries targeted at machine learning and other workloads. By Ben Lorica and Ion Stoica. [This post originally appeared on the Anyscale blog.] Ray is usually described as a distributed computing platform that can be used to scale Python applications with minimal effort.Continue reading “Understanding the Ray ecosystem and community”

One simple chart: Air Travel in the US

Based on newly released numbers from the TSA, air travel was down 51.6% in March 2020 compared to March 2019. Moreover, air travel was down 92% over the last seven days of March 2020 (compared to the same period in 2019)! Subscribe to our Newsletter: We also publish a popular newsletter where we share highlightsContinue reading “One simple chart: Air Travel in the US”