Neural networks — the technique underlying nearly all systems we describe as “artificial intelligence” today — are revolutionizing the way we communicate, get around, and express ourselves. In one of the most prominent recent examples, the GPT-3...
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The Role of Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
Companies in the healthcare industry utilize their large amounts of data in combination with natural language processing (NLP) techniques to enhance personalized care, identify high risk patients or automate tedious paperwork. Continuous research in the field leads to...
Data Science Use Cases and Challenges in Healthcare in 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers promising opportunities to reinvent the healthcare industry, from optimizing the diagnostic progress to improving quality of care as well as managing hospital capacities. Particularly during a global pandemic AI carries the hope to...
6 Data Science Trends to Watch in 2021
In this tumultuous year, we’ve seen how digital and data-centric companies have been growing and flourishing amid the pandemic, which encouraged many other organizations to follow in their footsteps. The year 2020 presented a few key events that highlighted the...
Data Science Opportunities and Challenges in Retail amidst COVID-19
COVID-19 has turned the retail and e-commerce ecosystem upside down. While some businesses have seen a drastic decrease in sales, others have experienced a boom and marched to the forefront of the very competitive industry. AI and machine learning technologies can...
Using machine learning for content recommendations: Q&A with The New York Time’s data science director
During our recent Data Science Salon Virtual conference for the media, advertising and entertainment industries, we had Anne Bauer with us from The New York Times. She gave one of our most viewed talks about how The New York Times experiments with personalized...
Top 25 Data Science Influencers to Follow in 2022
Top 25 Data Science Influencers to Follow in 2022 In the current times of COVID-19, we rely on exchanging information online, now more than ever. Keeping track of the latest open source library, a new algorithm or recently published paper can be hard or impossible on...
The Data Diet: How Data Journalism Becomes Sustainable
My pandemic media diet has been mostly newsletters and podcasts. I start my day with The New York Times and Morning Brew, and I end it questioning whether the CIA wrote one of the great post-Cold War rock ballads while cooking dinner. The bar to being a content...
#BlackoutTuesday
Data Science Salon posted a message on Monday expressing our support for our community and our commitment to equality, respect, and human rights. We are participating in #BlackoutTuesday by not posting at all. For the remainder of the week, our social media content...
Full Exposure: What Would Life Be Like Without Privacy?
Artificial intelligence in media, entertainment, and advertising promises euphoric convenience: perfect satisfaction for consumers who reveal their personal information. There’s a connection between that exchange and a famous philosophical thought experiment from the...