William Vorhies's Blog – February 2019 Archive (4)

Where and How is AI Actually Being Adopted

Summary: Adoption of AI/ML by larger companies has more than doubled since last year according to these survey results from McKinsey and Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. This new data gives us a much better idea of which global regions and which industries are adopting which AI/ML techniques.

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Added by William Vorhies on February 25, 2019 at 9:00am — No Comments

From Optimization to Prescriptive Analytics

Summary: True prescriptive analytics requires the use of real optimization techniques that very few applications actually use. Here’s a refresher on optimization with examples of where and how they’re best used.

Predictive analytics and optimization have gone hand in hand since the very beginning. But in…

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Added by William Vorhies on February 18, 2019 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

Capturing the Value of ML/AI – the Challenge of Offensive versus Defensive Data Strategies

Summary: A major pain point is standing in the way of many companies’ ability to maximize the value of their ML/AI initiatives. The competing goals of data flexibility versus single version of the truth can only be solved with an effective data governance strategy.

There are many reasons why companies…

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Added by William Vorhies on February 11, 2019 at 10:15am — No Comments

Advanced Analytic Platforms – Incumbents Fall – Challengers Rise

Summary: The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms is just out and once again there are big changes in the leaderboard. Some major incumbents have fallen and some new challengers have emerged.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms is just out and once again there are big changes in the leaderboard. Say what you will about our profession but as a platform developer you…

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Added by William Vorhies on February 4, 2019 at 9:30am — 2 Comments