In collaboration with BigML partner, INFORM Gmbh, we’re pleased to bring the BigML community a new educational webinar: Machine Learning Fights Financial Crime. This FREE virtual event will take place on October 28, 2020, at 8:00 AM PDT / 9:00 AM PDT and it’s the ideal learning opportunity for Financial institutions, banking sector professionals, credit […]

Here’s how IT professionals can help top management understand the value of data and how to use it to the company’s advantage. Image: Dmitry – stock.adobe.com In theory, the need for data-driven decisions to guide overall business strategy is not a difficult notion to grasp. Yet, many executives struggle with the concept and process due […]

It’s hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. If one of your executives or your company is the victim of deepfakes, what’s IT going to do about it? Deepfakes (aka synthetic media) can spread misinformation and disinformation very effectively. The 2020 US election is just one example, but the use of deepfakes isn’t limited […]

COVID-19 has had profound effects on the global economy. While some industries took a hard hit, others found new opportunities — such as machine learning. Image: xiaoliangge – stock.adobe.com The challenge of COVID-19 has accelerated a number of existing technology and business trends creating significant opportunities for companies that offer or deploy artificial intelligence. But […]

The San Francisco Giants have digitized decades of media assets and are using artificial intelligence to manage and access what they need from the massive library. When baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who played for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, passed away in September 2020 at the age of 81, the […]

Ventana Research posits that in uncertain times architecting systems, even on premises, means adopting cloud principles to be agile and adaptable. New data strategies required to meet demands imposed by the pandemic may also be signs of seismic shifts in the market, some experts say. On Tuesday, Raj Verma, Co-CEO of MemSQL, a SQL database […]

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have distinct limitations. Businesses looking to implement AI need to understand where these boundaries are drawn. Although we are still in the infancy of the AI revolution, there’s not much artificial intelligence can’t do. From business dilemmas to societal issues, it is being asked to solve thorny problems that lack […]

Life insurance giant MassMutual is exploring the use of health data from wearables to further refine its data science-created underwriting models. Your Apple Watch or your FitBit can tell you how many steps you’ve taken in a day, what your resting heart rate is, and a range of other measurements about your daily habits and […]

CIOs and IT leaders should broaden their thinking around data and data analytics and empower their organizations to implement effective security and resilience programs. The global COVID-19 pandemic is the most intensive data-driven global crisis we’ve seen. Even the most forward leaning and well-resourced companies have struggled with the sheer volume of data they must […]

Chatbots are currently the biggest use case for AI. Now the COVID-19 pandemic has made them even more compelling given their use in automation and their high level of ROI. When it comes to technologies that got a big boost from the response to the pandemic, probably the first thing that comes to mind is […]