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Effective Machine Learning Needs Leadership — Not AI Hype
 Originally published in BigThink, Feb 12, 2024.  Excerpted from The...
Today’s AI Won’t Radically Transform Society, But It’s Already Reshaping Business
 Originally published in Fast Company, Jan 5, 2024. Eric...
Calculating Customer Potential with Share of Wallet
 No question about it: We, as consumers have our...
A University Curriculum Supplement to Teach a Business Framework for ML Deployment
    In 2023, as a visiting analytics professor...

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Predicting Gene Expression With AI

 Originally published in DeepMind, Oct 4, 2021. Based on Transformers, our new Enformer architecture advances genetic research by improving the ability to predict how DNA sequence influences gene expression. When the Human Genome Project succeeded in mapping the DNA sequence of the human genome, the international research community were excited by the opportunity to better understand the

The Missing Analytics Executive

 Originally published in Benn.Substack, Nov 19, 2021. There’s a treadmill at the mountain top. Among the data leaders I know, many of their stories are the same. After rising up the ranks of their organizations, from junior...

Predicting Long-Term User Engagement from Short-Term Behavior

 Originally published in Insight, Nov 17, 2021. User engagement is one of many crucial elements to study and understand deeply for both well-established companies and nascent startups throughout the development of a product. A product’s health can...

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Province Targets Journalists, Foreign Students with Planned New Surveillance System

 Originally published in Reuters, Nov 29, 2021.   Security officials in one of China’s largest provinces have commissioned a surveillance system they say they want to use to track journalists and international students among other “suspicious people”, documents...

Video – Credit Models, Microfinance, and Improving the Lives of Families in the Developing World

 Event: Machine Learning Week 2021 Keynote: Credit Models, Microfinance, and Improving the Lives of Families in the Developing World Speaker:  Aric LaBarr, Associate Professor of Analytics, Institute for Advanced Analytics at NC State University Bio:  A Teaching Associate Professor in the Institute...

Video – How to Use AI Ethically from Natalia Modjeska of Omdia

 Event: Machine Learning Week 2021 Keynote: How to Use AI Ethically Speaker: Natalia Modjeska, Research Director at Omdia (part of Informa Tech) Bio:  Natalia Modjeska is a Research Director at Omdia (part of Informa Tech) where she leads the team...

The First Rule of Machine Learning: Start without Machine Learning

 Originally published in Eugeneyan. Applying machine learning effectively is tricky. You need data. You need a robust pipeline to support your data flows. And most of all, you need high-quality labels. As a result, most of the...

Minority Voices ‘Filtered’ Out of Google Natural Language Processing Models

 Originally published in United AI, Sept 24, 2021. According to new research, one of the largest Natural Language Processing (NLP) datasets available has been extensively ‘filtered’ to remove black and Hispanic authors, as well as material related to gay...

Microsoft Predicts Weather for Individual Farms

 Originally published in IEEE Spectrum, Oct 4, 2021. Imagine you’re a farmer in the northern United States. It’s early spring, and nighttime temperatures are just starting to rise above freezing. You need to fertilize your newly-planted crops,...

Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

 Originally published in IEEE Spectrum, Sept 24, 2021. Deep Learning is now being used to translate between languages, predict how proteins fold, analyze medical scans, and play games as complex as Go, to name just a few applications of a technique...

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