Big Data

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Don’t tell me you’ve never watched a TV series, where Special Agents identify the thief thanks to their new top algorithm just written 5 minutes ago by the geek? I confess I did, and have to admit, it looks like a joke. But I recon there is some truth to it… So today we are […]