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Originally published in Forbes.com, January 29, 2020 Built on several tens of thousands of cameras and what’s claimed to be one of the most advanced facial recognition systems on the planet, Moscow has been quietly switching on a massive surveillance project this month. The software that’s helping monitor all those faces is FindFace, the
Originally published in Wired.com, January 25, 2020 The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. On January 9, the World...
Introduction In 2019, over 40 million Americans wagered money on March Madness brackets, according to the American Gaming Association. Most of this money was bet in “bracket pools,” which consist of a group of people each...
By: Sam Koslowsky, Senior Analytic Consultant,
Harte Hanks
While I have spent most of my career exploring and leveraging data science, and its associated rigorous analytics, only in the past decade or so have so many managers accepted the obvious- that data driven decision making...
By: Ryan Waliany, Lei Kang, Ernel Murati, Mohammad Shafkat Amin, and Nikolaus Volk
Originally published in Uber Engineering, June 15, 2018 In Uber’s ride-hailing business, a driver picks up a user from a curbside or other location, and then drops them off at their destination, completing a trip. Uber Eats,...
By: Jeremy Fain, CEO and Founder,
Cognitiv
Now that artificial intelligence and machine learning have become increasingly common tools in a business’ arsenal, it is equally important to have employees who are capable of using – or developing – such tools. Chief among them...
By: Dr. Jennifer Lewis Priestley, Executive Director of Analytics and Data Science Institute, Kennesaw State University and Dr. Robert McGrath, Chair of Health Management and Policy,
University of New Hampshire
In addition to this article, Dr. Priestley will also present on this topic at Predictive Analytics World for Business in Las Vegas, May 31-June 4, 2020. For details about her session, “How Leading Enterprises Leverage Universities to...
Originally published in Microsoft Research Blog, January 28, 2020 Consider a person who applies for a loan with a financial company, but their application is rejected by a machine learning algorithm used to determine who receives a...
Originally published in WeAllCount.com, January 17, 2020 Let’s say you are surveying 100 people out of 10,000. You want to analyze the data from your sample of 100 to get answers about the likely behaviors and preferences...
Dear Reader, As of the beginning of January 2020, it’s my great pleasure to join The Machine Learning Times as editor in chief! I’ve taken over the main editorial duties from Eric Siegel, who founded the...
