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How to Integrate Design Thinking Into Your Business

Accelerate AI Featured Post Opinion Design Thinking Human Centered Designposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 10, 2019

We spend a lot of time on Open Data Science talking about the technical side of data science and business but don’t be fooled: the human element needs to be there. Companies making the best use of data science still center the human experience in their business growth and... Read more

Data Science Literacy and Open Source Education for the Enterprise

Accelerate AI Conferences Data Science data science literacy literacy open source education West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 8, 2019

As a data scientist, one of your biggest struggles in your organization is probably communicating what you do (and what you can do) to the organization outside your data science team. If the departments around your data science team don’t understand how to frame the questions needed for the... Read more

Transitioning from Academia to Business? 3 Things to Keep in Mind

Accelerate AI Career Insightsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 7, 2019

Congratulations! You’ve gotten your first job in Data Science in the business sector. Whether you’re fresh out of school or coming from a distinguished career in academia, you’re transitioning from academia to business — you feel ready to make an impact in your company. [Related Article: 3 Unique Ways... Read more

Your Business’s Biggest Climate Change Concerns – How AI Might Help

Accelerate AI Featured Post Technology climate changeposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 4, 2019

Businesses are scrambling to deal with the effects of climate change. We’re going to have to make some serious decisions for how humanity will move forward, but our future is looking a little brighter with the addition of AI. Here are a few ways AI could help alleviate the... Read more

5 Amazing Ways Data Science Will Transform the eCommerce Business

Accelerate AI Guest contributor ecommerceposted by Gaurav Belani September 30, 2019

Data science has become a go-to term for every industry, starting from eCommerce to healthcare and transportation. And each sector uses data science in eCommerce for different purposes. For instance, Amazon, the eCommerce giant, uses data for improving eCommerce experience. Among all industries, data science has had a significant impact... Read more

AI Gold Rush: How to Build a Better AI Startup

Accelerate AI Conferences Startups West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 25, 2019

We’re in the midst of an AI “gold rush.” It’s not just people working directly with AI, but the entire ecosystem that’s changing. Even fields affected by AI are innovating within the infrastructure, causing new use cases and new ways of thinking about AI. It’s an exciting time to... Read more

What Businesses Should Know About Speech Technologies

Accelerate AI Career Insights Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Business language processing NLP speech technologyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 23, 2019

One of the top workshops at ODSC West last year (2018) was a talk by Omar Tawakol, the founder of Voicea. His company created a voice assistant that transformed meetings by handling lower order tasks like note-taking. Cisco acquired Voicea, most likely to integrate it into Webex as part... Read more

Identifying Heart Disease Risk Factors from Clinical Text

Accelerate AI Conferences Healthcare ODSC Speaker bertposted by Sudha Subramanian September 23, 2019

Editor’s Note: See Sudha’s talk “Identifying Heart Disease Risk Factors from Clinical Notes” at ODSC Europe 2019. People needlessly die every single day due to preventable heart attacks. The clues are hiding right within the notes doctors and clinicians take during routine health care visits. In this presentation, we... Read more

Using AI for Dynamic Pricing: The Smarking Example

Accelerate AI Retail dynamic pricing West 2018posted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 20, 2019

What do the airlines, hotels, parking, and cloud computing have in common? You invest in assets upfront and render them out as slices of time. While parking assets exist in the physical space, and cloud computing exists in a virtual space, the principle is the same. Dr. Maokai Lin ... Read more

What Your Business Needs to Know About Data Variety

Accelerate AI Featured Post Opinion data data variety Deep Learning Machine Learningposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 20, 2019

The bigger your business, the more likely your data is…interesting. Old methods of data collection put data in silos across several departments. The computing power to handle data in all its forms wasn’t there, so breaking it up in the name of agile operations was key. Now, we’ve got... Read more