Tag: Artificial intelligence

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: William Vorhies. Summary:  An interesting documentary about the earliest days of AI/ML and my alternate take on how we should really be describing the development of our profession to the newly initiated. What could be more natural in these days of the Corona Virus than binge watching great videos.  I was intrigued by a recent offer from Futurology who has sponsored “The History of Artificial Intelligence” on YouTube for free viewing.  The two-and-a-half-hour video is described as "the culmination of documentaries that cover the history and origins of computing-based artificial intelligence." ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Peter Skomoroch and Mike Loukides. Edit note: The increasing push to adopt AI into product, across many industries, puts the intersection of AI and product management into sharp focus. Challenges abound: non-deterministic outcomes, uncertainty (schedule, accuracy, relevance), opacity (models can be difficult to understand and explain), fairness issues, and other factors make AI a difficult sell to decision-makers and upper management. Here, Pete Skomoroch and Mike Loukides layout, in detail and with helpful supporting examples, what makes AI different, how to address those differences, and how product managers can better align their efforts in pragmatic support of ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Nagdev. [This article was first published on R – Hi! I am Nagdev, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. As a data scientist, I always seek to learn about out new tools and techniques. Although research papers are a great resource to learn, they are mostly either theoretical or lack in hands on explanation. Blogs are a great way to learn if you like me. They are concise, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Dr. Andrew Jones. Cloud-based technology is supporting healthcare organisations and governments in response to the evolving COVID-19 situation. Healthcare providers and professionals, governments, and patients around the world face are facing an unprecedented challenge. Healthcare organizations and workers are on the frontline serving those affected by the illness and collaborating to find a cure. Healthcare organisations are adapting to this new way of working—from remote working to creating new diagnosis and care models to enhancing research. Some healthcare professionals are remotely reviewing, triaging, and addressing incoming requests from citizens and patients and ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sebastian Heinz. [This article was first published on r-bloggers | STATWORX, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Recently, some colleagues and I attended the 2-day COVID-19 hackathon #wirvsvirus, organized by the German government. Thereby, we’ve developed a great application for simulating COVID-19 curves based on estimations of governmental measure effectiveness (FlatCurver). As there are many COVID-related dashboards and visualizations out there, I thought that gathering the underlying data ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Edgar Haren. Organizations across the globe are using advanced analytics and data science to predict and make decisions. They are finding ways to use their vast and diverse data stores to predict the best place to put their next retail store, what products to recommend to customers, how many employees they need for peak hours of operation, and how long a piece of machinery has until it needs maintenance. Public sector organizations in government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare are looking to use data to advance their missions too.Expanding and improving government response ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Rachel Van Dinter. AWS EdStart Members are on a mission to bridge the personalized learning gap between students and educational institutions through artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platforms built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These organizations are enabling students to follow their own learning pathways across writing, math, and reading, at their own pace, anytime, and anywhere. Learn about three AWS EdStart Members and how they adapt to student learning and virtually assist self-study. Using social and gamification elements to make learning fun and engaging Joni.AI is an AI-powered adaptive math learning and assessment ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mark Frankish. Most organisations that must maintain a physical network have similar challenges in keeping their networks safe and operational. Whether you run an energy distribution network, a telecommunications network, or a road, rail or canal network, you need to keep it clear of obstructions. And one of the biggest culprits tends to be the surrounding vegetation. Historically, network operators have relied on physical inspections, with workers walking along those networks to visually check where maintenance is required. However, the advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning means that we can now analyse other data sources ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Cloud, edge computing, and IoT are making strides to transform whole industries and create opportunities that weren't possible just a few years ago. With the rise of 5G mobile connectivity, there are even more possibilities to deliver immersive, real-time experiences that have demanding, ultra-low latency, and connectivity requirements. 5G opens new frontiers with enhanced mobile broadband up to 10x faster, reliable low-latency communication, and very high device density up to 1 million devices per square kilometer. Today we’re announcing transformative advances to combine the power of Azure, 5G, carriers, and technology partners around ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Kelly Wanser. Dendra Systems is a technology-enabled service provider addressing restoration of natural ecosystems globally. The company developed an automation and intelligence solution to support large-scale restoration of natural ecosystems, the protection of our climate, and the sustainability of our natural world. As part of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, we invited Kelly Wanser, Board Director at Dendra Systems, to share how the organization is using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and big data to provide insights that help assess and restore at-risk ecosystems. The world needs more (than) trees The world’s forests have ... Read More