Category: Analytics

The last few years have seen a tremendous paradigm shift in how institutional asset managers source and integrate multiple data sources into their investment process. With frequent shifts in risk correlations, unexpected sources of volatility, and increasing competition from passive strategies, asset managers are employing a broader set of third-party data sources to gain a […]

Data preparation is a principal component of machine learning (ML) pipelines. In fact, it is estimated that data professionals spend about 80 percent of their time on data preparation. In this intensive competitive market, teams want to analyze data and extract more meaningful insights quickly. Customers are adopting more efficient and visual ways to build […]

June 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to reflect the launch of EMR release 6.10 Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the ML workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. Studio […]

Organizations are using machine learning (ML) and AI services to enhance customer experience, reduce operational cost, and unlock new possibilities to improve business outcomes. Data underpins ML and AI use cases and is a strategic asset to an organization. As data is growing at an exponential rate, organizations are looking to set up an integrated, […]

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed intelligent document processing (IDP), and how IDP can accelerate claims processing use cases in the insurance industry. We discussed how we can use AWS AI services to accurately categorize claims documents along with supporting documents. We also discussed how to extract various types of documents in an […]

A massive amount of business documents are processed daily across industries. Many of these documents are paper-based, scanned into your system as images, or in an unstructured format like PDF. Each company may apply unique rules associated with its business background while processing these documents. How to extract information accurately and process them flexibly is […]

Face-off Probability is the National Hockey League’s (NHL) first advanced statistic using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence. It uses real-time Player and Puck Tracking (PPT) data to show viewers which player is likely to win a face-off before the puck is dropped, and provides broadcasters and viewers the opportunity to dive deeper into the […]

August 30, 2023: Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics has been renamed to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink. Read the announcement in the AWS News Blog and learn more. February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Near-real-time delivery of data […]

This post is a joint collaboration with Andries Engelbrecht and James Sun of Snowflake, Inc. The cloud computing revolution has enabled businesses to capture and retain corporate and organizational data without capacity planning or data retention constraints. Now, with diverse and vast reserves of longitudinal data, companies are increasingly able to find novel and impactful […]

Every company, regardless of its size, wants to deliver the best products and services to its customers. To achieve this, companies want to understand industry trends and customer behavior, and optimize internal processes and data analyses on a routine basis. This is a crucial component of a company’s success. A very prominent part of the […]