Big Data

How neuronal networks can help to forecast the future?


Financial forecasting (foreign exchange rate, stock prices prediction, …), load demand forecasting, weather forecasting and traffic estimation are just few examples of practical applications where artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been used throughout the years. Their potential to model any kind of function, of any arbitrary complexity with the right choice of parameters and the […]

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Container Placement Optimization


  Each year 9 billion tons of goods, representing more than 80% of globally exchanged goods are transported by sea.   Container placement optimization is today an important challenge for freight shipping companies.  The ultimate goal is to make fewer container shiftings to save money.   Today, these companies use data terminal operating system, maintenance […]

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Big Data Use Cases N°2


Following the first article “5 surprising Big Data use cases” written by Bora Kizil, we have decided to do more search and let you know about other interesting Big Data use cases: 1- Big data can protect our planet from bee extinction: Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the planet. The world […]

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Zero downtime - Is it really possible?


Businesses are – in general – meant to maximize revenue and profit.  To do that, they need to have a fully operational capacity. Operational downtimes have negative effects and are bad for business. Do we know really the cost of downtime? If you are an airplane carrier you need your planes to be up in […]

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