Machine Learning
Do you talk to your computer or smartphone? Just a few years ago, that question would have been absurd. But with advances in natural language processing, the likelihood is that you have asked your phone to send a text or search the web for something within the last day. In fact, natural language processing (NLP)
Enterprises are inundated with data from social, mobile, IoT and other technologies. The pace of the data flow is only accelerating. Over 300 hours of videos are uploaded on YouTube every minute, and this has grown from...
People often get stuck when they are asked to improve the performance of existing predictive models. What usually they do is try different algorithms and check their results. But often they end up not improving the...
Corp recruiters have a very important and difficult job. They predict who will be a top performer in certain roles and protect against non-performers getting inside the business ecosystem. We rely on their ability to make constant...
As Silicon Valley fights for talent, universities struggle to hold on to their stars THAT a computer program can repeatedly beat the world champion at Go, a complex board game, is a coup for the fast-moving field...
One of the more recent topics gaining traction in Big Data Analytics is the notion of machine learning. Many people think that this is a recent development or phenomenon occurring as a result of newer Big Data...
We explore the ins-and-outs of the algorithmic economy It’s no good just having data – it’s what you do with it that counts. In five years, one million new devices will come online every hour, creating billions...
Companies big and small are finding new ways to capture and use more data. The push to make big data more mainstream will get stronger in 2016. Here are Oracle’s top 10 predictions: 1. Data civilians operate more...
Gartner, the leading market and technology research firm, has published its 2015 Hype Cycle Report of Emerging technologies. Fig. 1: Gartner 2015 Hype Cycle. For comparison, here is Fig. 2: Gartner 2014 Hype Cycle. What’s the Hype...
“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in...
