Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. Data is like statistics: a matter of interpretation. The process may look scientific, but that does not mean the result is credible or reliable. How can we trust what a person says if we deny the legitimacy of what he believes? How can we know a […]
Is It Time to Replace OCR with AI?
Click to learn more about author Jasmine Morgan. Document processing is a necessity, yet it consumes so much time that every large organization is striving to find ways to automate it. However, any solution to be feasible needs to be as accurate as possible, especially in the case of financial documents. Old-school OCR Until AI became […]
How to Tackle Social Issues with AI?
Click to learn more about author Charles Richard. Never have disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning had such an impact on how your business interacts with your user community as it does now. And there is a reason for that; the accessibility of computing power and data sets have ushered in breakthroughs […]
Alpha Vertex Announces the Launch of Alta, a Machine Learning Product
A recent press release reports, “Alpha Vertex (www.alphavertex.ai), a financial technology company that offers analytical solutions powered by proprietary AI algorithms to financial institutions and investors, today announced the launch of Alta, its alternative data product. Created with enriched alternative datasets using big data techniques such as NLP, anomaly detection, sentiment and relation extraction, Alpha […]
Automated Machine Learning: Just How Much?
Click to learn more about author Rosaria Silipo. An interview with three data scientists and guided automation experts There is currently a lot of talk about automated machine learning. There is also a high level of skepticism. I am here with data scientists Paolo Tamagnini, Simon Schmid and Christian Dietz.. to ask a few questions […]
Making Machine Learning Datasets Unbiased
Click to learn more about authors Dmitry Pozdnyakov and Olga Ezzheva Machine Learning (ML), a subset of a broader Artificial Intelligence (AI) field, is finding its way into more and more areas of application. From smarter shopping recommendations to better medical diagnosis to more effective fraud detection, businesses are leaning on ML to inject new […]
Quest Adds Breakthrough Capabilities to its Visual Cortex Algorithm for Vehicle Recognition
A new press release reports, “Quest Solution, Inc., a provider of Supply Chain and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Machine Vision solutions, has announced that it has enhanced the features of its AI-based ‘Visual Cortex’ ™ algorithm, adding car color and make machine recognition to its existing license plate recognition solution. HTS Image Processing, a fully owned […]
Moving from AI Science Experiment to Operationalized Pipeline
Click to learn more about author Dipti Borkar. Organizations have spent the past few years educating themselves on various Artificial Intelligence frameworks and tools. But for AI to become mainstream, it will need move beyond small-scale and often ad hoc experiments being run by Data Scientists, to becoming an automated pipeline with the inference and […]
Zillow Launches $1 Million Zestimate Competition for Data Scientists
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “Zillow, the leading real estate information and home-related marketplace, today has launched Zillow® Prize, an award of $1 million to the first person or team who can most improve the Zestimate® algorithm, Zillow’s proprietary home valuation tool. Zillow Prize calls for data scientists, engineers and visionaries to […]
The Life of a Data Scientist
The worldwide demand for qualified Data Scientists continues to grow and one of the most common queries in many an industry insider’s mind is so, what is it that a Data Scientist does? When lay persons within an industry try to grasp the essence of a Data Scientist’s life, the confusion that boggles everyone is […]