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Traditional Programming versus Machine Learning, in One Picture
I found this on Facebook, but it could be 30 years old. Not sure who the original author was, but the quality was very poor, so I...
Intelligent Systems Vs. Artificial Intelligence: How To Help Your Clients
If many of your clients don’t understand the difference between artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent systems, you’re not alone....
Advanced Analytics Platforms – Big Changes in the Leaderboard
Summary: The Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytic and ML Platforms is just out and there are some big changes in the leaderboard. Not...
5 Best Practices for Email Data Analysis
Data analytics is a red-hot field in terms of growth and popularity, but there’s a relatively new segment of the field that’s starting to...
Podcast: Analytics in Media & Entertainment (Juan Carlos Sánchez)
Today we have a very interesting talk with Juan Carlos Sánchez of Sony Pictures Entertainment, who tells us a little about how the...
How Marketers Use Data Science to Increase Reach
Interesting Infographics produced by Villanova University. Some opinions expressed in this article may be those of a guest author and not...
Top Game Changing Data Trends for 2018
These predictions for 2018 are from Infologix. “Metadata management and ensuring data privacy for regulations such as GDPR joins earlier...
The thin lines: business intelligence (BI), business analytics (BA), and data analytics
There is so much hype and interest in Business Analytics (BA), it begs the question of digging deep into hives. I was curious in finding...
Your Journey to Data Science Maturity (by Kirk Borne)
Great, short visual summary produced by Kirk Borne. Highlights: Computational Ask the right questions Design thinker Willingness to fail...
An Unexpected Use of AI
Back to the heydays of Youtube, when it was all about amateur videos. Here, with a modern twist: A guy (me) dancing while listening to...
AI: Robots Helping Each Other (Nice Video)
Interesting video by Boston Dynamics about robots helping each other to open a door. Maybe next time it will be about robots fighting...
The one critical skill many data scientists are missing
When I started to learn about data science and consider it as a career choice, there was a diagram that I came across regularly and still...
Most Data Science Job Ads are Targeted to Young People - Why?
If you are on Facebook, you've probably seen their ads to attract candidates to data science positions. You've probably seen ads...
Big Data Isn’t a Thing; Big Data is a State of Mind
“Big Data is dead.” “Big Data is passé.”“We no longer need Big Data; we need Machine Learning now.”As we end 2017 and look forward to big...
Lessons in Becoming an Effective Data Scientist
I was recently a guest lecturer at the University of California Berkeley Extension in San Francisco. On a lovely Saturday afternoon, the...
What Happens when our Computers get Smarter than we are?
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds -- within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as...
Machine Learning Poised to Impact Business Analytics
We may be years away from the “AI-enabled Coworker,” but the first implementations of machine-learning capabilities are finding their way...
7 Visualizations You Should Learn in R
With ever increasing volume of data, it is impossible to tell stories without visualizations. Data visualization is an art of how to turn...
Simple questions to measure the ability of a data scientist
Sometimes a recruiter will find difficult to know the skills of a data science before hiring. Here are some simple questions to measure...
Even a Poor Model Can Have a Lot of Value
This is a lesson in how it may be possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. 1.) A good ROC score does not necessarily mean a...
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