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Originally published in BuzzFeed, June 21, 2018 The company rolled out new tech it says can help automatically identify pages spreading fake news. Facebook is taking more steps to punish page owners outside of the US that target Americans with financially motivated hoaxes and misinformation. The company told BuzzFeed News it has deployed machine
If you are like me, when you first heard of analytics and its ability to benefit businesses, non-profits, and government agencies, you felt invigorated and excited, having to hold back the urge to shout “Charge!” As...
By: Elie Bursztein
Originally published in elie.net, May, 2018 This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. At a high level, attacks against classifiers can be broken down...
Originally published by Analytics Magazine This article is excerpted from Eric Siegel’s Foreword to the recently released book, “Federal Data Science: Transforming Government and Agricultural Policy Using Artificial Intelligence,” edited by Feras A. Batarseh and Ruixin Yang....
Mobile marketing technology offers opportunities to enhance the customer experience. The marketing world is awash in acronyms and terms that reflect the technological changes practitioners are facing today. One common acronym—CRM, or customer relationship management—revolves around the...
By: Will Knight Originally published in MIT Technology Review, May 23, 2018 But DARPA’s technologists admit that it might be a losing battle. Think that AI will help put a stop to fake news? The US military...
By: Rachel Thomas Originally published in fast.ai, April 29, 2018 There is a powerful technique that is winning Kaggle competitions and is widely used at Google (according to Jeff Dean), Pinterest, and Instacart, yet that many people...
In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, What Millennial Employees Actually Value: Lessons from Predictive Modeling, at Predictive Analytics World for Business Las Vegas, June 3-7, 2018, we asked Tauseef Rahman, Principal, Workforce Strategy & Analytics at...
By: Bill Luker Jr, PhD
The problem of monetizing Big Data, or improving its usefulness in decision-making, stands out in every forward-looking organization today. To solve it, as everyone knows by now, it is not enough to store or manage it. We...
Originally published in KDnuggets 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. Deep Learning is the newest trend coming out of Machine Learning,...
