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The Amazing Ways The Ford Motor Company Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
The Amazing Ways The Ford Motor Company Uses Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Bernard Marr Enterprise & Cloud Ford Motor Company, along with General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen, may have started out as automotive manufacturers, but they now refer to themselves as “mobility service” companies. Ford believes “freedom of movement drives human progress.” While it is now a global company, Ford started out more than 100 years ago in Dearborn, Michigan. The company revolutionized manufacturing by introducing the moving assembly line and made car ownership possible for everyday folks and not just the wealthy. Today, the company focuses on [...]
How Artificial Intelligence Is Tracking Sex Traffickers
Machine learning technology is opening up new strategies to find and prosecute the men who profit from the worst of the illegal sex trade “Hey there. You available?” “Yes I am… how long did you want company for?” “Was hoping for an hour, maybe half. Depends.” “Half. 125 hour. 200 donation.” “Gotcha. Can you stay for half hour then?” “You’re not a cop or affiliated with any law enforcement, right?” “Ha. No. You?” In the thrum of texts that flit across cell towers every day, arranging sex from online ads, this was just another exchange. What followed, however, was [...]
605 Expands TV Data Through Deal with Inscape
Analytics company getting viewing information on 20M homesJon Lafayette Mar 27, 2019Data analytics company 605 said it made a deal to get viewing information from Inscape, a subsidiary of Vizio and now can measure audiences behavior based on data from 20 million households across all 201 designated market areas.Inscape uses automatic content recognition technology to measure viewing on about 10.5 million smart TVs.“From a historical standpoint, sample sizes within the industry have been small and consumer behavior is constantly changing, creating a void in measurement that is large and growing,” said Colleen Moraghan, senior VP, data solutions at 605. [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Machine Learning Development for Medical Technology
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the VP of technology at a company that manufactures hardware and software related to medical cannabis use. We have software that’s designed to help people manage chronic pain. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We had a machine learning project that we wanted to get going to see if we could use it as a basis for some of the later machine learning projects that we’d like to do as part of our software platform offering. SOLUTION What was the scope of [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Implementation Partnership with Tech Enterprise
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m a data science thought leader at a technology enterprise. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We needed guidance for the implementation of our project. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? We were building a security systems solution with one of our partners. Using IBM Watson Studio throughout the project, ThirdEye Data installed and set the code and solutions with Kubernetes. What is the team composition? I never worked directly with them on a project. I had many project managers that [...]
VERIFIED REVIEW – Data Lake Configuration for Media Company
BACKGROUND Introduce your business and what you do there. I’m the manager of enterprise data services for a media company. OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE What challenges were you trying to address with ThirdEye Data? We initially had a SQL server business intelligence (BI) stack but found that we needed an enterprise data lake. After identifying the gaps in our team’s capabilities, we brought on ThirdEye Data to help us configure the data lake. SOLUTION What was the scope of their involvement? We decided to leverage AWS as a data lake. Because we wanted to have a persistent cluster for computing, [...]
Accessible Machine Learning through Data Workflow Management
Accessible Machine Learning through Data Workflow Management Jianyong Zhang, Eric Chen, and Sally Lee Machine learning (ML) pervades many aspect of Uber’s business. From responding to customer support tickets, optimizing queries, and forecasting demand, ML provides critical insights for many of our teams. Our teams encountered many different challenges while incorporating ML into Uber’s processes. Some of these challenges, such as picking the right model for a problem space, are core to specific business problems, but the majority of challenges we have seen involve making machine learning easier to access and use. For instance, how do we make data more easily available for model [...]
How is AI transforming Bioinformatics?
We live in a century where access to information is ubiquitous and change is the only constant. Artificial intelligence, once a futuristic concept, is now transforming industries globally. The development of cognitive computing applications with machine learning and deep learning techniques has paved the way for researchers to make major breakthroughs in diverse fields ranging from speech recognition, language translation, and image processing to economics and computational biology.In particular, bioinformatics—the science of analyzing complex biological data using computational methods—has seen significant advancements due to the rise of artificial intelligence. Recent research has enabled computers to analyze polymerase chain reactions and [...]
How A.I. Is Finding New Cures in Old Drugs
Photograph by Roberto Frankenberg for Fortune How A.I. Is Finding New Cures in Old Drugs Pharma startups like Pharnext are deploying machine learning to search for new therapeutic uses for “off patent” medications.By Tiernan Ray In the elegant quiet of the café at the Church of Sweden, a narrow Gothic-style building in Midtown Manhattan, Daniel Cohen is taking a break from explaining genetics. He moves toward the creaky piano positioned near the front door, sits down, and plays a flowing, flawless rendition of “Over the Rainbow.” If human biology is the scientific equivalent of a complicated score, Cohen has learned how to [...]
How the Alexa Robot brought internet-based learning to a remote village school in Maharashtra
What happens when a creative and enterprising rural school teacher stumbles upon Alexa? He could have just used it like the rest of us do, but here’s what he did instead. Rarely does one get to chronicle ‘innovation’ stories from ground zero - where you smell the heat and the dust, walk through kachcha roads dotted with sleepy village homes, sweat it out and get your feet dirty, literally. After all, the best of innovation often tends to take place in sanitised research labs and glass offices of global corporations. And thus, it is also the biggest challenge most innovators face [...]
Spark enhancements for elasticity and resiliency on Amazon EMR
Spark enhancements for elasticity and resiliency on Amazon EMR by Udit Mehrotra | on 22 FEB 2019 | in Amazon EMR, AWS Big Data | Permalink | Comments | ShareCustomers take advantage of the elasticity in Amazon EMR to save costs by scaling in clusters when workflows are completed, or when running lighter jobs. This also applies to launching clusters with low-cost Amazon EC2 spot instances.The Automatic Scaling feature in Amazon EMR lets customers dynamically scale clusters in and out, based on cluster usage or other job-related metrics. These features help you use resources efficiently, but they can also cause EC2 instances to shut down in the middle of a running job. This could result in [...]
Managing Uber’s Data Workflows at Scale
At Uber’s scale, thousands of microservices serve millions of rides and deliveries a day, generating more than a hundred petabytes of raw data. Internally, engineering and data teams across the company leverage this data to improve the Uber experience. Application of this data spans several use cases, including calculating more efficient uberPOOL routes and making sure Uber Eats orders are delivered while the food is still hot, real-world events represented by data in our infrastructure. Making this data actionable involves ingestion, transformation, dispersal, and orchestration so that it can be applied widely across areas such as traditional business intelligence, machine [...]
Here’s Why your Business Needs an Anomaly Detection Solution for its Web Server Logs — and Fast
Here’s Why your Business Needs an Anomaly Detection Solution for its Web Server Logs — and Fast In this special guest feature, Dj Das, Founder & CEO of ThirdEye Data, believes that the weblogs on your website probably hold more importance than you realize. They record the intricate details of your site visitors, such as browsing behavior, clicks, and actions, and with this data come vital insights into how the server is responding, visitor actions before conversion, detecting fraudulent activities in real time, and predicting failure probabilities of the hardware infrastructure. So, outliers that skew this information are really not [...]
We must move away from ‘cookie-cutter’ chatbots
We must move away from ‘cookie-cutter’ chatbots Bad chatbots don’t sit well with customers, but ‘intelligent’ ones can be highly effective. It’s no secret that when chatbots are bad, they’re really bad. There’s nothing worse than trying to convey your needs and problems in a chat box, only to be met with irrelevant automated responses. Even entities such as CNN and the Wall Street Journal have struggled to build bots that could understand simple unsubscribe requests from their users. CNN’s bot only understood the request when the word “unsubscribe” was sent on its own, while WSJ’s bot just ignored the request altogether, and continued to bombard its [...]
Bots For Banking: How Smart Chatbots Can Secure Data And Combat Fraud
We are living in an age where convenience, speed, and efficiency are king. So, unsurprisingly, chatbots have taken reign as the preferred method of customer service for many — not least fast-paced professionals that don’t have the time to sit through automated messages or wait on hold for a human operator. In fact, 69 percent of consumers prefer chatbots for quick communication with brands, and Gartner predicted that by 2020, 85 percent of engagement with businesses will be conducted without the consumer ever interacting with another human being. There’s few places that AI-powered chatbots have more potential than in the financial sector. Many of the [...]
LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATIONS IN ASTRONOMY
LEVERAGING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATIONS IN ASTRONOMY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LATEST NEWS by Analytics Insight March 21, 2019 0 comments There is no such talent who could successfully keep up the crucial information and sensitive records produced by today’s physics and astronomy experiments. A radio telescope, the Square Kilometer Array stiffly grounded to switch on in the mid-2020s is projected to generate maximum data traffic annually as the entire internet. Maximum count of scientists is trying to grip the help from artificial intelligence. With minimum human contribution, a few major AI systems such as artificial neural networks-computer-simulated networks of neurons that reflect as a function [...]
Expand Your Business in China – Cross Border Connectivity using Alibaba Cloud
Expand Your Business in China - Cross Border Connectivity using Alibaba Cloud Dj D. Hosted by Dj D. and 2 others Details Geographical boundaries are breaking down, cultural walls are coming down, innovation curve is shooting up – thanks to the cloud platforms and the applications that are built on it. Enterprises are adopting cloud platforms by the droves as they seek to benefit from these technical innovations. Alibaba Cloud, though a new entrant in the US market has been a dominant player in China and has been at the helm of these technical innovations for 10+ years. Big Data [...]
Open Source Deep Learning Frameworks and Visual Analytics
Open Source Deep Learning Frameworks and Visual Analytics Posted by Kai Waehner on April 23, 2017 at 9:00am View Blog Deep Learning gets more and more traction. It basically focuses on one section of Machine Learning: Artificial Neural Networks. This article explains why Deep Learning is a game changer in analytics, when to use it, and how Visual Analytics allows business analysts to leverage the analytic models built by a (citizen) data scientist. What is Deep Learning and Artificial Neural Networks? Deep Learning is the modern buzzword for artificial neural networks, one of many concepts and algorithms in machine learning to [...]
Next-gen revenue cycle to refine value-based care with AI, advanced analytics
Next-gen revenue cycle to refine value-based care with AI, advanced analytics Technology to facilitate a patient's understanding of insurance coverage and out-of-pocket cost for pending services will feature prominently. Follow the money. That's something all healthcare organizations must do, and do well, especially during a period of changing financial models and expectations. Revenue cycle management systems are bread and butter when it comes to what healthcare organizations need in health IT. But the next generation features and functions of revenue cycle management systems may be anything but ordinary, according to experts. For one thing, expect next-generation revenue cycle management systems to [...]
Filter Bots in Google Analytics
Filter Bots in Google Analytics Data is only good as the methods you use to collect it. With Google Analytics you track everything including search bots which isn’t helpful. Search bots crawl every page of your site and could mess up your data. This is especially true if you have low traffic. Luckily, within Google Analytics there's a setting you can check to filter out known search bots. How Much Traffic Do Search Bots Generate According to the 2015 edition of Imperva Incapsula’s Bot Traffic Report: Humans make up 51% of all traffic online Good bots (bots that follow the rules) make up 19% of traffic Bad [...]
Improving Patient Care with Machine Learning At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Improving Patient Care with Machine Learning At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center by Dr. Matt Wood | on 04 MAR 2019 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a multi-year, innovative research program on how machine learning can improve patient care, supported by an academic research sponsorship grant from AWS. The Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital will use a broad array of AWS machine learning services to uncover new ways that machine learning technology can enhance clinical care, streamline operations, and eliminate waste, with the goal of improving patient care and quality of life. Improving patient care with machine learning Inefficiencies in hospital [...]
How Deep Learning Will Change Customer Experience
How Deep Learning Will Change Customer Experience Posted by Ronald van Loon on May 7, 2018 at 11:00pm Deep learning is a sub-category within machine learning and artificial intelligence. It is inspired by and based on the model of the human brain to create artificial neural networks for machines. Deep learning will allow machines and devices to function in some ways as humans do. Dr. Rodrigo Agundez of GoDataDriven is co-author of this article and very enthusiastic about the improvements that deep learning can offer. He’s been involved in the data science and analysis field for some time, and is already working on implementing models for practical applications. [...]
Alphabet’s Chronicle finally reveals its cybersecurity moonshot
Get the backstory…instantly Alphabet’s Chronicle finally reveals its cybersecurity moonshot Backstory will help companies keep on top of huge amounts of security information. Last year, Google's parent company Alphabet announced Chronicle, a cybersecurity division spun out of X (previously Google X). Now, Chronicle has launched its first commercial product -- a global telemetry platform called Backstory. According to Chronicle, it's a bit like Google Photos, but for business network security. Speaking to Forbes, Chronicle's CEO Stephen Gillett explains: "You dump everything in Google Photos, they structure it, they recognize faces, they give you themes, they store it in the cloud and [...]
Responsible AI in Practice: Resume Matching
Responsible AI in Practice: Resume Matching Steve Cooper Head of Enterprise Data and Analytics Program at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Bias in algorithms is a big topic… it’s a necessary conversation and, as with most important matters, exhibits the full range of emotion and perspectives. The business press and mainstream media presents a consistent, albeit limited, view of the challenge. The Economist notes it as a mega-trend for 2019. It defines “algorithmic bias” as “the worry that when systems are trained using historical data, they will learn and perpetuate the existing biases. To ensure fairness, AI systems need to be better at explaining [...]
