Even in the midst of a global pandemic, there are exciting times ahead for Android developers, as new technologies continue to drive a fresh wave of application development trends in 2020. Here are some of the most game-changing Android trends that we expect to impact the software development industry throughout the year. Top 5 Trends […]

The Sociable’s Editor in Chief, Tim Hinchliffe, talks with the director of Marketing and Business Development at Perficient Latin America, about good practices in agile development and the experience of Perficient Latin America as a leader in the export of software development services.  Can you tell us a little bit about what Perficient Latin America […]

What will the future hold for data science and machine learning platforms? Most of you already saw Gartner’s perspective in their latest Magic Quadrant on the evolution of data science that was released at the beginning of 2018 and are familiar with the outcome. However, did you ever ask yourself why SAS, KNIME, RapidMiner, and H2O.ai became […]

In the world of Big Data, Data engineers always strive to find a way or method to analyze, process, and compute the Volume, Velocity, and Variety of data, and to provide Data scientists with a resilient backbone to conduct their analysis. Before the introduction of the cloud platforms, all the big data processing and managing […]

What do I want to watch tonight? What is the next book I might want to read? Those types of questions are usually answered through the suggestions that are embedded into your screen when you’re about to make your selections either on your phone, computer, tablet, or television. Initially, or as I recall, these recommendations were […]

Why do I give my precedence to build the model as Proof of Concept (POC) instead of following established methodologies such as CRISP-DM, SEMMA, AIE, MAD Skills, etc.? Even though most of the Data scientists will say that they are two different things and used for different purposes; one is a methodology or a step […]

I always like to dive into the technical details, sometimes to the chagrin of my colleagues. Today I had a brilliant opportunity to look under the covers at Lucene and it’s future through the lens of the ElasticSearch team. Something stood out during this deep technical session that was hinted in yesterday’s keynote as new […]

As everything in this world matures and goes through the steps of evolution, Data Science is not much different. Even though it became more affordable for the companies to jump on the Data Science bandwagon and generate quick wins, Volume, Velocity, and Variety are still the bottleneck for most of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. […]

Most of the time as a data scientist I get asked the question, what is the difference between Machine Learning and Statistical Learning? Even though you would think that the answer is obvious, there are a lot of novice data scientists that are still confused about those two approaches. As a beginner data scientist, it […]

On October 12, 2017, Gluon became available to the public. Microsoft’s partnership with Amazon finally has a chance to outshine Google with its great TensorFlow. Gluon is a deep learning multiplatform tool which currently utilizes Apache MXNet and soon will work on Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) as well as other platforms to come shortly after. […]

This article first appeared in the Sociable. AirBnB recently earned the top spot on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list, and was estimated to be worth as much as traditional hotel giants Hilton and Hyatt combined. Nowadays, not moving fast enough to embrace a digital transformation can cost even the most well-established incumbents a large chunk of […]

Probably sometimes, but whether this is recommended or not as a strategy to get more miles-to-the-dollar for your engineering talent (working with a freelancer versus working with an established software services firm) will depend. I have been in the software services industry in Latin America for 15 years and can certainly share some pointers that apply […]