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Why You Must Twist Your Data Scientist’s Arm To Estimate AI’s Value
 Originally published in Forbes, June 11, 2024. If you’ve...
3 Ways Predictive AI Delivers More Value Than Generative AI
 Originally published in Forbes, March 4, 2024. Which kind...
AI Success Depends On How You Choose This One Number
 Originally published in Forbes, March 25, 2024. To do...
Elon Musk Predicts Artificial General Intelligence In 2 Years. Here’s Why That’s Hype
 Originally published in Forbes, April 10, 2024 When OpenAI’s...

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Data-Driven Decisions for Law Enforcement in Toronto

 For today’s leading deep learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Predictive Analytics World for Government, Sept 17-21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Data-driven decisions for law enforcement are not new and have been used for over 20 years. New York City is often considered a pioneer in embracing methodologies and technologies to

Explaining Deep Learning by Making AI Transparent

 For today’s leading deep learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Deep Learning World Las Vegas, June 3-7, 2018.   Before discussing this above topic, it is important to describe my definition of AI within...

Predicting Fraud: Another Not So Easy Task

 As I have stated in previous articles, the most difficult challenge in building predictive models is the creation of the analytical file. Typically, this comprises between 80%-90% of the data scientist’s time with 10%-20%  comprising the actual...

Automation and its impact on Predictive Analytics-Creating the Analytical File

 In my last article, I discussed the increasing impact of automation on business and the displacement of jobs. With artificial intelligence looming as the ultimate disruptor, the overall theme of job displacement has shifted more towards knowledge-intensive...

Are Random Variables a Fact of Life in Predictive Models?

 In some of the more recent literature, discussion has ensued about the use of pure random or noise variables that end up as key variables in predictive models. In our big data environment with millions of records...

The Role of Feature Engineering in a Machine Learning World

 Artificial Intelligence(AI) continues to be the next great topic of debate. In fact, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Google and Facebook announced on Thursday,Sept.29 the formation of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society. Within the...

Feature Engineering Within the Predictive Analytics Process — Part Two

 In the last article, I discussed the concept of feature engineering as comprising two components with the first component being the ability to create and derive meaningful variables in the analytical file which is used as the...