Summary: Some observations about new major trends and directions in data science drawn from the Strata+Hadoop conference in San Jose last week. I’m fresh off… Read More »Goodbye Age of Hadoop – Hello Cambrian Explosion of Deep Learning
Summary: If you are mid-career and thinking about switching into data science here are some things to think about in planning your journey. We get… Read More »Some Thoughts on Mid-Career Switching Into Data Science
Summary: As deep learning expands those capabilities are finding their way into the not-for-profit community in the service of conserving the earth’s wildlife and forests.… Read More »AI Saves the Elephants, Sharks, Frogs, Sea Birds and Everything Else
Summary: Count yourself lucky if you’re not in one of the regulated industries where regulation requires you to value interpretability over accuracy. This has been… Read More »Deep Learning lets Regulated Industries Refocus on Accuracy
Summary: Looking beyond today’s commercial applications of AI, where and how far will we progress toward an Artificial Intelligence with truly human-like reasoning and capability? … Read More »In Search of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Summary: In our recent article on “5 Types of Recommenders” we failed to mention Indicator-Based Recommenders. These have some unique features and ease of implementation… Read More »Indicator Based Recommenders – The One We Missed
Summary: In this last article in our series on recommenders we look to the future to see how the rapidly emerging capabilities of Deep Learning… Read More »Deep Learning and Recommenders
Summary: There are many sources of packaged recommenders including the more comprehensive Digital Personalization platforms. It’s also possible to code your own. Here are a… Read More »Recommenders: Packaged Solutions or Home Grown
Summary: There are five basic styles of recommenders differentiated mostly by their core algorithms. You need to understand what’s going on inside the box in… Read More »5 Types of Recommenders
Summary: Just how accurate are algorithms at spotting fake news and are we ready to turn them loose to suppress material they don’t find credible. … Read More »Using Algorithms to Detect Fake News – The State of the Art
