Click to learn more about author Peter Baudains. Fraudsters are becoming increasingly ambitious and sophisticated in their financial crime endeavors, and fraudulent activity is becoming harder to differentiate from genuine activity. Losses are being realized in a shorter period, as fraudsters adapt to beat traditional fraud management techniques and strategies. This constant innovation by fraudsters […]
Big Data: Replacing the Vs with a Single D
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. I can remember the first time people started to talk about “Big Data”. It may be a hackneyed phrase today, but some years ago it took the world of BI and analytics by storm. What then ensued was a mad frenzy to come up with a good […]
What is Augmented Data Science and Why is it Important to My Business?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. If Data Science was once the sole domain of analysts and data scientists, Augmented Data Science represents the democratized view of this domain. With Augmented Data Science, the average business user can engage with advanced analytics tools that allow for Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and leverage sophisticated analytical […]
Machine Learning for Small Businesses: Unearthing the Revolutionary Potential
Click to learn more about author Atman Rathod. Like any new technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) remained largely available for the top brass of every industry at the initial stage. But like we have seen with many new technologies and innovations in the past, they are slowly going to be available for […]
Leveraging Natural Language Processing Within a CDP
Click to learn more about author Jonathan Lee. In my last column for DATAVERSITY I sought to define the concept of a Customer Data Platform (CDP), noting that a CDP “creates a comprehensive view of each customer by capturing data from multiple systems.” What I didn’t do however, was to delve into a discussion of […]
The University of the Future: Five Ways to Use Data and Analytics to Start Your Online Degree Program
Click to learn more about author Eric Spear. The face of the higher-education student is changing. In the past, the majority of college students were fresh out of high school or another undergraduate program, but 2018 statistics show that 74% of American undergrads are considered “nontraditional” students. With nontraditional students comes the need for higher-education […]
Nowcasting Chicago Crime with R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. In my many years as a data scientist, I’ve spent more time doing forecast work than any other type of predictive modeling. Often as not, the work’s involved forecasting demand for an organization’s many products/lines of business a year or more out based on five or more […]
Better Marketing and Analytics in the Age of the Data-Conscious Consumer
Click to learn more about author Jason Lark. Data is big news these days. Tech behemoths like Google and Facebook make a lot of money from our data, and people are growing increasingly aware of how valuable their data is to companies of all sizes. But as data becomes increasingly valuable for companies, consumers are starting […]
How to Get Started with AI You can Trust?
Click to learn more about author Manoj Saxena. Today the public sees AI as a technical solution, but AI’s biggest problems are not technical, they’re the design and behavioral issues. “There is nothing Artificial about AI” to quote Fei Fei Li, a leading AI researcher at Stanford University. AI is inspired by people, it is […]
Artificial Intelligence Applications: Retail Use Cases
Click to learn more about author Amit Dua. As we all know, humans are considered the most intelligent species on this planet, and no other species has actually debated the self-proclaimed smartness of humans that we know of. But, visualize a world where humans create programs and machines that are as good of analysts and […]