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How Are We Solving Inequality with AI?

Agriculture Automotive Business + Management Data Science for Good Education Featured Post Government Media Opinion AI Data Science for Good inequality solving inequality with aiposted by ODSC Team September 6, 2019

When people talk about artificial intelligence, they often praise it as an unemotional, efficient task manager, and, to an extent, that’s what it is. But when we think about it in bigger terms than Siri or Alexa, we can see real ways people are solving inequality... Read more

Has media reached a reality/complexity tipping point?

Business + Management Media Data analysis|Data Visualizationposted by Lorien Pratt March 28, 2018

A landmark paper appeared last December in the National Science Review (summary). It describes the complex interdependencies between climate, consumption, population, demographics, inequality, economic growth, migration, and more. Written by an interdisciplinary team of 20 authors hailing from organizations worldwide including NASA, Johns Hopkins, and more, the paper... Read more

Bridging the Digital Gap between B2B and B2C Marketing with Big Data

Business + Management DS @ Scale Media Technology Tools & Languages Big Data|Businessposted by James Chen January 1, 2018

Forget funnels. Be user centric. Be human centric. ‘It’s no longer “digital marketing,” but marketing in a digital world.’ — Keith Weed, CMO at Unilever. With the blooming of Big Data in recent years, there are a number of success stories in business, particular in B2C companies who engage with... Read more

Neural Networks and Art: Music, Painting and Poetry

Business + Management Deep Learning Media Modeling Technology Life|Neural Networksposted by Caspar Wylie, ODSC December 14, 2017

Recently, I have been exploring the creative side of artificial neural networks. People have been wondering what these mysterious models can come up with, and this creativity is the controversial side of artificial intelligence; the side that some people fear. The art industry seem to feel... Read more

Are Data Lakes Fake News?

Business + Management DS @ Scale Media Technology Tools & Languages Datasetposted by Uli Bethke October 12, 2017

The problem with the data lake Are data lakes fake news? The quick answer is yes and in this post I will show you why. The biggest problem I have with data lakes is that the term has been overloaded by vendors and analysts with meanings.... Read more

Data Science and AI in Film Production

Business + Management Mediaposted by Debajyoti (Deb) Ray October 11, 2017

Enabling Agile Storytelling with AI Creativity, Inc. is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books I have read. Ed Catmull recounts his personal experiences, and talks in depth about the processes he created that made Pixar one of the most successful companies in the business. I strongly... Read more

How the Internet of Things Will Change Marketing

Blog Financial Services Media Technology IoTposted by Mark van Rijmenam July 27, 2017

An industry that is expected to add $ 19 trillion to the Global GDP will definitely have an impact on all aspects of an organization. As such the Internet of Things will revolutionize marketing. Within a few years, thanks to the Internet of Things, a marketer’s job will... Read more

When the World is the ad

Blog Mediaposted by Marcelo Rinesi June 4, 2017

Data-driven algorithms are effective not because of what they know, but as a function of what they don’t. From a mathematical point of view, Internet advertising isn’t about putting ads on pages or crafting seemingly neutral content. There’s just the input — some change to the... Read more