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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...

Richard Boire

Why AI Isn’t Going to Replace Data Scientists Any Time Soon

 Should data scientists consider AI a threat to their short- or even long-term job security? In this article, I present a philosophical argument that adamantly argues, “No.” For the work of data scientists, and human endeavors in general, machines are nowhere near human intellectual capabilities. There has been much discussion, almost euphoric in some instances,

Looking at Measurement and How We Evaluate the Impact of Reinforcement Learning Over Traditional Predictive Analytics

 Are we really at a new stage of so-called industrial development much like how the car replaced the horse and buggy as the main mode of consumer transportation? This would appear to be the case by some...

Overcoming the Explainability Challenges of Machine Learning Models

 Some History Machine Learning Models, which have historically been referred to as predictive models, are not new. Any early practitioner in this field would emphasize that the two key deliverables of any model are as follows: its...

Some Thoughts on Analytics in a Post COVID-19 Environment

 In these most difficult times, the use of analytics is certainly not top of mind for most organizations unless it is being used to combat the virus. The challenging scenarios of meeting payroll and having access to...

Data-Driven Decisions for Law Enforcement in Toronto

 For today’s leading deep learning methods and technology, attend the conference and training workshops at Predictive Analytics World for Government, Sept 17-21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Data-driven decisions for law enforcement are not new and have been used...

The Art of Data Science

 With much of the latest discussion focused on the latest techniques in machine learning  and in particular deep learning, the significant benefits of machine learning and deep learning are now a public reality. Yet, machine learning in...

Wise Practitioner – Predictive Analytics Interview Series: Richard Boire at Environics Analytics

 In anticipation of his upcoming conference presentation, What it Means to the Data Scientist as Financial Services Faces Disruptive Times, at Predictive Analytics World for Financial in Las Vegas, June 3-7, 2018, we asked Richard Boire, Senior...

Explaining Deep Learning by Making AI Transparent

 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.   Before discussing this above topic, it is important to describe my definition of AI within...

Feature Engineering vs. Machine Learning in Optimizing Customer Behavior

 The debate on this topic is not a new one. What is the secret sauce in yielding improved modelling performance?  Is it the inputs, features or variables of a given predictive model or is it the specific...

Automation and Its Impact on Predictive Analytics – The Increasing Importance of the Hybrid-Part 3

 In my last article, I discussed the increasing impact of automation and its actual impact in creating the analytical file. As any data scientist knows, this component or stage of the data science process can typically represent...

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