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...
Based on a presentation by Priscilla Boyd – Senior Manager, Data Analytics at Siemens Mobility, watch the full presentation here. Widely considered one of the most interesting talks at #DSSATX (overall event recap here), Priscilla Boyd’s real-world examples of data...
Based on a presentation by Chris Lindner – Manager, Product Science at Indeed, watch the full presentation here. Note: This talk was presented in February, and the job market has changed quite a bit amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. While not specific to jobs in data...
Based on a presentation by Caitlin Hudon – Lead Data Scientist at OnlineMedEd, watch the full presentation here. At #DSSATX (overall event recap here), we loved the super-practical step-by-step advice on setting up the very first data science infrastructure and team...
Consider how the software development life cycle (SLDC) is well-defined at this point: planning, creating, testing, deploying, maintaining – or some variant, depending on your software methodology. The gist remains consistent. Computer software runs “logic” in...
This blog post by Douglas Hamilton, Chief Data Scientist and Managing Director of NASDAQ’s Machine Intelligence Lab, explores applying machine learning to the portfolio management problem to derive better indexes. I'm Doug Hamilton – I'm Chief Data...
This post is adapted from a talk by Charles Alcorn – Head of Data Science at Roche Molecular Systems and describes medical content management concepts for the field of Oncology. Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that develops and produces...
If you are having the following symptoms at your company when it comes to business KPI forecasting, then maybe you need to look at automated forecasting: Ugly Excel spreadsheets with multiple tabs and 2000s style pastel formatting Business unit managers, store...
At most companies, a data scientist’s main objective is to determine how machine learning technologies can revolutionize business procedures. In his insightful talk in February 2018 at Data Science Salon Miami, Mark Fridson Principal Data Scientist at Carnival Cruise...
We live in a society that can be resistant to change, especially when it comes to technology. But according to Justin Hendrix, Executive Director of New York City Media Lab, the discussions surrounding AR and VR are hardly different from debates that surely...