Click to learn more about author Deepak Dube. Gartner reports have popularized the term “augmented intelligence” in the past couple of years. In this article, I will explain what it entails. Let’s begin with how Gartner defines it: “Augmented intelligence is a design pattern for a human-centered partnership model of people and artificial intelligence (AI) working together […]
Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, and AI
This past fall, all aspects of the computable knowledge structure KBpedia – its upper ontology (KKO), full knowledge graph, mappings to major leading knowledge bases, and 70 logical concept groupings called typologies – became open source. Making big strides in increasing definitions and mappings has been a main focus of KBpedia v. 1.60. As it always […]
How E-Commerce Companies Use AI to Power Their Sales
Click to learn more about author Hardik Shah. AI-enabled computer programs can think, learn, and act in particular situations as humans do. When these intelligent programs are applied to machines, they can understand and improve without human intervention. E-commerce is one such everyday use case where merchants are increasing their sales by leaps and bounds […]
What Is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a distributed database and storage devices for the database are not all connected to a common processor. “A blockchain or distributed ledger,” as Gartner describes, “is a mechanism for adding trust in an untrusted environment.” Blockchain’s special capabilities in cryptography lead to this increased trust as a medium. Each transaction has a record. […]
Time Series Analysis with Components
Click to learn more about co-author Maarit Widmann. Click to learn more about co-author Daniele Tonini. Click to learn more about co-author Corey Weisinger. Time Series Forecasting is often neglected says Professor Daniele Tonini: “Considering the plethora of articles, applications, web tutorials and challenges on the data science subject that we’re seeing in the last […]
The All-Star Analyst: Powered by AI (Part 2)
Click to learn more about author Assaf Egozi. In the first part of this series, Assaf Egozi discussed key drivers and barriers to adoption for using AI/ML to power business analysis. This follow-up article highlights practical ways that citizen data analysts are using the technology to drive value for their business. Citizen data analysts are […]
Machine Learning vs. Deep Learning
The debate on machine learning vs. deep learning has gained considerable steam in the past few years. The fundamental strength of both these technologies lies in their ability to learn from available data. Though both of these offshoot AI technologies triumph in “learning algorithms,” the manner in which machine learning (ML) algorithms learn is very […]
The Future of AI: Assistance with Voice-to-Text Translation
Click to learn more about author Rachel Roumeliotis. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now powering conversational commerce in retail, increasingly using chatbots to streamline and improve customer service. This can help with everything from answering customer queries and resolving issues to helping sell more merchandise through product recommendations. Voice-to-text translation is a crucial part of this […]
What Is Data Mining?
Data Mining is an older (and now allied) subset of machine learning and artificial intelligence that deals with large data sets. It uses pattern recognition technologies with statistical and mathematical techniques to forecast business trends and find useful patterns. “Data mining is also known as Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD).” A component of data mining, […]
The Future of Analytics: What is All the Hype About?
Expert’s ears immediately perk up upon attending a talk about how to get big insights from analytics. After all, analytics has become the new hot topic of the day. However, asked Nipa Basu, during her keynote presentation The Future of Analytics at the DATAVERSITY Enterprise Analytics Online Conference: “What is the difference between hype and […]