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Why Consumers Should Trust Companies with Their Data

Accelerate AI Conferences Healthcare Conferences Healthcare ODSC Westposted by Spencer Norris December 13, 2018

Hugo Pinto is an asthmatic. He’s aware of the environmental triggers that can induce an asthma attack, but he wasn’t satisfied with the option that faces most asthmatics: wait until an attack happens, and treat the symptoms once it does. At a hackathon, Pinto teamed up with other developers... Read more

Real-Life Robocop: How NLP Is Fighting Financial Crime

Accelerate AI Natural Language Processing NLPposted by ODSC Team December 12, 2018

Introduction “There used to be a point where chatbots could barely understand slang. Now, they’re able to recognize numerous languages and styles.” The amazing progress artificial intelligence has made in human language processing fascinates Kfir Bar, chief scientist at Basis Technology. For years, Bar has explored the gambit of... Read more

The Data of Disease: How Pharma is Using Data to Improve Vaccine R&D

Accelerate AI Applied Data Science Pharmaposted by Spencer Norris December 10, 2018

Vaccines traditionally take decades to develop. Duccio Medini and his colleagues at GlaxoSmithKline are looking for ways to change that. Duccio Medini addressed attendees at ODSC London 2018 in a half-hour lecture on how data science is integrating with vaccination research, speeding up the development process and enabling researchers... Read more

Brain Meets Machine: How DataSine is Merging Psychology and Data Science

Accelerate AI Technologyposted by Spencer Norris December 4, 2018

Igor Volzhanin, CEO of AI-driven marketing strategy group DataSine, gave a talk at ODSC London 2018 on the framework that his company uses to target end users with content tailored to their unique personality profiles. DataSine intersects data science with modern psychological approaches to predict what content users will... Read more

Data Scientists as Jackalopes — Not Unicorns: Insight from Jesús Rogel-Salazar

Accelerate AIposted by Paxtyn Merten November 23, 2018

Data scientists shouldn’t be hailed as unicorns — they’re more like jackalopes, Jesús Rogel-Salazar said in the final moments of ODSC Europe 2018. Rogel-Salazar presented a basic introduction to data science and its practical business applications during the Europe conference’s final timeslot. He said over-exaggerated perceptions of data science... Read more

Meet the Leader of a Data-Driven Work Culture: The Data Science Manager

Accelerate AI Accelerate AI Career insightposted by Paxtyn Merten November 14, 2018

What does it take to build a data-driven culture at a company? Surely, you’d expect hiring a few people with technical skills would make a monumental difference. But Google Chief Decision Scientist Cassie Kozyrkov says the true key to building a data-driven culture is hiring a data science manager —... Read more

Three Machine Learning Practices That Keep Your Identity Safe

Accelerate AI Machine Learningposted by Paxtyn Merten November 6, 2018

As privacy concerns escalate in the age of big data, developers constantly evolve artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to protect individuals’ identities. Machine learning systems enable businesses to more effectively identify fraud and keep user information safe. These systems gather data that can provide much more powerful insights... Read more

Machine Learning Brings a New Era in the Energy Sector

Accelerate AI Energyposted by Rudradeb Mitra November 1, 2018

(This article is co-authored with Rajiv Dinesh) For more than a century, the energy sector has been driven by centralized grid-based systems. But 135 years after the advent of these systems, millions of people are still left behind with insufficient or no electricity. One just needs to visit a developing... Read more

Six Big Companies That Use Visual Search

Accelerate AI Amazon eBay Forever 21 Google Snapchat visual search Wayfairposted by Paxtyn Merten October 30, 2018

Companies that use visual search are able to achieve next-level ease and opportunity for people trying to figure things out. Searching with images allows people to find what they’re looking for without having the words to describe it. This is a powerful modern affordance, especially for those who don’t... Read more

How Entertainment and Social Media Giants are Using Machine Learning

Accelerate AI Tech Updates facebook Machine Learning netflix twitterposted by Alex Landa October 26, 2018

Major names in social media didn’t get there by accident. In addition to their excellent products, marketing, and sales strategies, machine learning is a huge part of the backbone that makes many of their processes successful. Facebook, Twitter, among other names you’ve definitely heard of have become the powerhouses... Read more