Originally published in insideBIGDATA, August 19, 2018. The supply of information stored digitally and accessible to web users worldwide currently amounts to around 4.4 Zettabytes or 4.4 Trillion Gigabytes. Of that information, most of it was produced in the last 2 years; more than has been produced since the beginning of recorded information from worldwide
Originally published in New Atlas, July 5, 2018 For today’s leading deep learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Deep Learning World, June 16-19, 2019 in Las Vegas. A pair of artificial intelligence...
Originally published in Quora.com May 30, 2018 I used to scratch my head asking the same question until I had an enlightening conversation with a close friend of mine who works for a large healthcare consulting company....
Originally published in Data Science Central, July 4, 2018 Editor’s note: Although this author absolves the researchers (from Google) and blames only the journalists for the widespread false claims of a 95% accuracy level for mortality prediction,...
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...
A predictive big data analytics algorithm using a variety of demographic and clinical data points may be helpful for identifying patients at high risk of hospitalization or ED use. Reducing unnecessary emergency department utilization and avoidable hospital...
Today’s business executives are increasingly applying pressure to their Human Resources departments to “use predictive analytics.” But this pressure isn’t unique to Human Resources, as these same business leaders are also pressuring Sales, Customer Service, IT, Finance,...
Over the last five years, electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely implemented in the United States, and health care systems now have access to vast amounts of data. While they are beginning to apply “big data”...
Here’s a question for PATIMES members interested in Big Data and predictive analytics to ponder: “When is bigger data more hazardous?” And, here’s an answer to puzzle over: “When it is wider.” Eric Siegel, executive editor of...
If you missed this article, originally published a year ago in the Deloitte Review, it’s a unique thought leadership piece well worth the read, exploring the intersection of predictive analytics and behavioral economics and the pursuit of...
