Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques are altering the way organizations gather, process, and protect data. They are being used to gather massive amounts of information about internet users in the form of big data, and to secure and protect it. The challenge is how to maximize the use of big data, while simultaneously safeguarding […]
The Benefits of Making Computer Vision Investments as a Retailer
Click to learn more about author Henry Bell. We live in a time when e-commerce giants like Amazon have raised the standards for customer experience. This has affected not only other online stores but traditional retailers as well. Offline stores are bound to become more reliant on data collection to provide their customers with a […]
Is Streaming Analytics the Future of Business Analytics?
Analyzing data as it is created or changes? Is that possible? Now it is, with streaming analytics, which monitors and responds to continuously flowing data from connected devices and live data channels like the sensors, machine logs, relational databases, social media feeds, location data sources, and so on. The core differentiator of streaming analytics is […]
Why I Believe the Hyperautomation Hype – and You Should Too
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Just when you’d got to grips with automation, along comes hyperautomation. The buzzword cynics will think that’s a bad joke, a Will Farrell-style parody of a “top trend to watch!” from yet another thought leader. I’d usually count myself among those cynics, but on this occasion, I’m sold […]
Why the Future of Bots Relies on Regulation
Click to learn more about author Or Lenchner. How do we define bots? Why were they developed? Bots are about enhancing efficiency, and efficiency can be used to free up resources for further growth. They automate manual work to make us faster. What was once a day-long or even week-long task is now reduced to mere […]
A Brief History of Data Science
The term “Data Science” was created in the early 1960s to describe a new profession that would support the understanding and interpretation of the large amounts of data which was being amassed at the time. (At the time, there was no way of predicting the truly massive amounts of data over the next fifty years.) […]
AI Is Booming with Image Recognition, but Audio Recognition Lags Behind
Click to learn more about author Rachel Roumeliotis. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made considerable inroads in the enterprise. Image recognition technology, in particular, has been gaining steam, helping users achieve tasks from assisting in screening and diagnosis of disease through medical imaging, to enabling self-driving cars to accurately interpret their surroundings. However, there is still […]
Transparent Machine Learning: Key Steps and Tips for Getting Started
Click to learn more about author Deepak Dube. While machine learning is an involved science with complex models, what distinguishes transparent machine learning is that it explains itself – how it works, its predictions, its insights – so that the user understands and trusts the outcome. In this article, I explain what transparent machine learning […]
What Facebook and Big Tobacco Got Wrong (but AI Governance Can Still Get Right)
Click to learn more about author Anthony Habayeb. Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress about abusive algorithms and AI referenced Big Tobacco’s enormous influence and fall in the latter half of the 20th century. What’s challenging about the comparison, however, is that smoking is unequivocally bad for you. AI governance offers great promise to enhance our […]
What Is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) includes the technologies and tools used to analyze and report on different business operations. Business Intelligence uses raw data stored in varying data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and other storage platforms, and transforms it into actionable knowledge/information assets. Such elements include dashboards, spreadsheets, data visualizations, reports, and many others. According to […]