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Three Best Practices for Unilever’s Global Analytics Initiatives
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Getting Machine Learning Projects from Idea to Execution
 Originally published in Harvard Business Review Machine learning might...
Eric Siegel on Bloomberg Businessweek
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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...

Archive for May, 2021

Remote-Control Robots and the Limits of AI

 Originally published in Wired.com, April 7, 2021. A growing number of robots are operated remotely, often by workers thousands of miles away. Could it be a job of the future? David Tejeda helps deliver food and drinks to tables at a small restaurant in Dallas. And another in Sonoma County, California. Sometimes he lends a hand

Liftoff: The Basics of Predictive Model Deployment

  This article is based on the transcript of one of 142 videos in Eric Siegel’s online course, Machine Learning Leadership and Practice – End-to-End Mastery. Developing a good predictive model with machine learning isn’t the end...

Sharing Learnings About Our Image Cropping Algorithm

 In October 2020, we heard feedback from people on Twitter that our image cropping algorithm didn’t serve all people equitably. As part of our commitment to address this issue, we also shared that we’d analyze our model again for bias. Over the last...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Markus Larsson at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

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The Four Most Common Fallacies About AI

 Originally published in VentureBeat, May 8, 2021. The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by repeated cycles of extreme optimism and promise followed by disillusionment and disappointment. Today’s AI systems can perform complicated tasks in a wide range of areas, such...

How Image Search Works at Dropbox

 Originally posted in Dropbox.tech, May 11, 2021 Photos are among the most common types of files in Dropbox, but searching for them by filename is even less productive than it is for text-based files.  When you’re looking...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Alexander Wu at Nauto

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Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Daniel Rohr at Tracks GmbH

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Inside Netflix’s Quest to End Scrolling – How the Company is Working to Solve One of its Biggest Threats: Decision Fatigue.

 Originally published in Vulture, April 28, 2021.  Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app should work more like regular TV. This was early on in its transition from DVD delivery to streaming on demand,...

Clustergam: Visualisation of Cluster Analysis

 Originally published in MARTIN FLEISCHMANN, April 27, 2021. When we want to do some cluster analysis to identify groups in our data, we often use algorithms like K-Means, which require the specification of a number of clusters....