What’s the connection between Data Quality and Blockchain? Dan Myers, principal information quality educator at DQMatters and the publisher of The Conformed Dimensions of Data Quality — which seeks to align the Data Management community by using common definitions — addressed the issue during his Enterprise Data World Conference presentation titled “Improved Data Quality Implications […]
Don’t Make These Six Big Data Mistakes
Click to learn more about author Evelyn Johnson. Why do big data projects fail? They do; that’s for sure. Gartner estimated that 60 percent of big data projects fail to achieve their desired objectives. A year later, they revised this figure to 85 percent, admitting they were “too conservative” with the original estimate. So, going […]
From Modeling to Scoring: Finding an Optimal Classification Threshold based on Cost and Profit
Click to learn more about co-author Maarit Widmann. Click to learn more about co-author Alfredo Roccato. Wheeling like a hamster in the Data Science cycle? Don’t know when to stop training your model? Model evaluation is an important part of a Data Science project and it’s exactly this part that quantifies how good your model is, […]
How to Keep Remote Workers Motivated with AI
Click here to learn more about Dr. Tommy Weir. With remote work becoming the norm, the portfolio of requisite leadership skills has expanded to include the ability to inspire employees from afar. The million-dollar question, of course, is how? Well, a mix of carrot and stick should form the bedrock of your strategy. “Sticks” don’t […]
Why Reputation Is Hindering AI and Automation Adoption
Click to learn more about author Tom Allen. The increasing penetration of technological advancements and artificial intelligence (AI) are being adopted by organizations with diverse services and operations to leverage on the utility of the same. The rapid and inevitable metamorphosis to adopt automation is springing amidst the pandemic. However, opinions are differently carved addressing […]
Understanding Chatbots
Click to learn more about author Keith D. Foote. A new tool for communicating with customers and potential customers has recently become available. It is called a chatbot, and it simplifies interactions between computers and humans. Chatbots provide a novel and exciting way for businesses to deal with the immediate needs of potential customers. Chatbots […]
How to Leverage Big Data for Business Intelligence
Click to learn more about author Errin O’Connor. If you have heard about Moore’s law, then you know that in the span of two years, the computer’s capacity increases in terms of memory storage and speed by a factor of two, leading to exponential growth in data generated by those devices. Better devices will produce […]
The Problem with Big Data: It’s Getting Bigger
Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. Take a quick look at the history of big data, and one fact will immediately strike you: The ability to collect data has almost always been larger than our ability to process it. Processing power used to expand exponentially, but in recent years that growth has slowed. […]
Rebound from Recession with the Power of an AI Strategy
Click here to learn more about Dr. Tommy Weir. Among the many tough questions that this latest — and potentially greatest — recession is throwing at businesses, is what their AI strategy should look like, both in order to navigate the downturn and to bounce back when it’s all over. Needless to say, there is […]
Guided Labeling Episode 4: From Exploration to Exploitation
Click to learn more about author Paolo Tamagnini. One of the key challenges in using supervised machine learning for real world use cases is that most algorithms and models require a sample of data that is large enough to represent the actual reality your model needs to learn. These data need to be labeled. These […]