Recommender systems at their core are just automated systems to filter some entities. These entities can be any products, ads, people, movies, or songs. We see this regularly from YouTube to Netflix to Amazon to Pandora. For example, we watch a movie and then later get a recommendation for a different movie based on the power of previous viewing history. Or it could be a product that we purchased and we get recommendations on other products based on previous product viewing or purchase history. …
Although new technologies have their benefits, they bring massive change and disruption. That disruption creates problems for clients to answer. The role of technology consulting teams goes beyond just deep technical skills. It also requires business specialists that can see the impact that change is having on their organization and see what problems need to be fixed. Whether that is in manufacturing, sales, marketing, or supply chain.
Business change has been driven by technology solutions for years. It requires a good understanding of what that business problem is, and then converting it into how technology can be used to resolve…
The financial services industry is definitely ripe for some innovation. While there have been some advances like ATMs in the 60s, debit cards in the 70s, and online banking in the 90s, financials services has yet to experience a fundamental transformation. In today’s increasingly digital word, although financial services is one the largest markets of the economy, it remains mostly offline.
FinTech refers to the innovative technologies making financial services more efficient, personal, and secure. Here are some aspects of what is pushing FinTech forward:
Mobile Technology
Not only does it connect our world and provide easy payments on the go, it…
This article will cover the entire process by which a webpage displays something within your browser.
When you open up a browser, you are running a program that exists on your local computer. It will open a window on your local display. When you type in a URL and hit enter, your browser undertakes a number of interactions with the internet to get the HTML file it needs to render within its browser window.
First thing the browser needs to know, where on the internet does it go to find the given url. It executes the Domain Name Service (DNS)…
Simply put, React Native is a framework for building apps in Android and iOS using JavaScript. It was created by FaceBook in 2015 and has gained much popularity around the world in the last few years. Knowing JavaScript will allow you to build actual native apps for Android and iOS, not just a website that looks like a mobile app.
React Native does not require you to learn Android or iOS programming unless you are building a very complex app that involves reaching native APIs of those platforms, which is rarely the case. …
What is Data?
In order to fully understand the workings of a database, let’s first discuss data. Put simply, data can be facts related to any object in consideration. Examples of data include text, numbers, images, videos, etc. If it can be recorded, it can be considered data.
A database is a systematic collection of related data. Usually databases have been applied for data that is either text or numbers. These are considered traditional databases. The term ‘data warehouse’ is used for very large databases that include long term historical data.
Why databases are needed
Databases allow managing extremely large amounts of data very easy. They also…
Ruby on Rails is a framework that allows you to quickly build powerful web applications. Everything in Rails is designed to make the developers life easier by making assumptions about what is needed to start a web application. It allows you to write less code to accomplish many things.
There are a few principles that have guided Rails since it’s inception:
- MVC architecture
- Convention over Configuration
- DRY
MVC is an architecture that separates applications into three distinct parts.
The M stands for model. This is our objects. It encapsulates the data in our database and validates it. …
What is convention when it comes to coding? Why does styling matter if my output is correct?
Many have trouble navigating this topic while entering the field of software engineering. As a student, they are typically working independently or in small groups to pass a series of tests or piece together a project. But upon joining the workforce, they realize much of their time is spent looking over source code from previous developers.
Coding conventions are a set of guidelines for a specific coding language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods for each aspect of a program written in…
