As you look ahead to 2016, it’s a good time to ponder: what’s the “new black” for improving customer experience? The Beyond the Arc team decided to play the role of #stylespotter and share some of our predictions.

Leaders will retool their culture to become more customer-focused

There’s an old saying that culture eats strategy for lunch. To us,…

As R programming language becoming popular more and more among data science group, industries, researchers, companies embracing R, going forward I will be writing posts on learning Data science using R. The tutorial course will include topics on data types of R, handling data using R, probability theory, Machine Learning, Supervised – unSupervised learning, Data Visualization using R, etc. Before going further, let’s just see some stats and tidbits on data science and…

Getting ready for the Industrial Internet of Things

 The IoT has been influencing the creation of a connected world where unbelievable amounts of data are generated from just about every imaginable thing. These connected, and previously dormant, things are now going to be able to communicate- from my dog’s collar, the milk carton, my car, my thermostat, my watch, my washer and dryer (not that I would particularly enjoy that conversation), you name it. This connectivity and…

A research paper by renowned consultancy Aberdeen Group reveals that “[data] complexity is often best answered with simplicity”. Several new surveys conducted by the group reveal some interesting findings with regards to the costs and benefits of using an integrated tool for data preparation, querying and visualization, as opposed to the “assembly line” approach of dividing these tasks between various proprietary DW, ETL and visualization tools.

The main finding is that…

Without any doubt, procedures generally labeled as "big data", "data science", and/or "machine learning" brought new and unprecedented insights into nearly every aspect of society.

Not only can companies like Google and Amazon "predict" the behavior of customers and adapt advertising and recommendations. Also, it is possible to extract personality clues from seemingly insignificant data. Did you know that e.g. the music taste posted in Facebook can provide indications about the…

Enjoy these 3 articles, two of them published today, and the other one still very popular after more than a year.

• SVM in Practice 
• Huge Trello List of Great Data Science Resources …

Here is our recommended list for this Friday, including articles posted today!

Non-technical:

• From DevOps to DataOps 
• 7 Tech Skills That Could Make Or Break Your Career …

Would you like to wind up an extraordinary coder? Do you have an enthusiasm for PCs however not a careful comprehension of them? Assuming this is the case, this post is for you.

Saying #1: 10,000 Hours

There is a truism that it takes 10,000 hours of accomplishing something to ace it.

In this way, to ace programming, it may take you 10,000 hours of being effectively coding…

Big data for startups is often a maligned idea. Surely, it’s the preserve of big business? Well, no! Start-ups and newly formed businesses can benefit from big data as much as any.

Big data may have once been the preserve of big businesses, however that’s dramatically changed thanks to huge amounts of information, great software and ever increasing computing power. So, here’s what everyone from a…

My selection: these were posted today and yesterday.

• Just When You Thought You Understood RDBMS and NoSQL Databases
• The Data Science Family  - Part 1: The Knowledge Pyramid…

There are exceptional enterprises that have realized what these statistics really mean: the wise invest in online customer experience, and we have explored why in this previous blog post. The following enterprises have done just that, and based on their understanding of and adapting to the trends, they will be leading their industries for many years to…

A data breach can be defined as an unintentional or intentional release of secured information to an environment that is untrusted. As a business owner, your customers trust you with a variety of personal information, including Social Security numbers, birthdates, and contact information, and if this information gets into the wrong hands, they could become the victims of identity theft and other issues. If your business has become the victim of a security breach, you can certainly expect to…

Optical fiber has been the backbone of Internet infrastructure for years and almost all our communications rely on it: telephony services, Wi-Fi or CATV. It is also responsible for building-to-building connectivity in campuses and is used in a variety of military applications. But still there are some myths about this incredible technology and we’d like to expose them.

1.  Fiber is fragile

Yes, glass used in everyday products is easy…