From maker space to solver space
Conferences are for meetings. Project teams build deliverables. Data is for data scientists. Online communities are for social contact. Until now, when a new mix is emerging. Can we solve difficult problems in a...
Tagged: machine learning
How to hire a machine learning consultant
More and more organizations are realizing the tremendous benefit of machine learning to their bottom line, yet many are not ready to hire a full-time machine learning expert. So a machine learning contractor/consultant/freelancer makes...
Machine learning is poised for mass adoption
Every few years, it’s exciting to witness a nascent technology emerge as a credibly disruptive influence around the world. Personal computing exploded in the 1980s, the web in the 1990s. Today, machine learning for...
Guest Post: The dirty dozen: twelve ways to fail at effective decision making
In the course of my decision analysis, analytics, and intelligence work for businesses and industry, I have identified a set of common points of failure in a typical decision engineering initiative. These characterize the...
Decision Intelligence in conflict and disaster recovery
In our years building decision intelligence models for domains like banking, telecom, and more, the project that I am most proud of is the work that we did for Liberia in collaboration with The...
Predictive analytics is not enough
The idea of predictive analytics can seem like magic: how, really, can a computer predict the future? Yet we’ve seen a lot of success based on this advanced technology in recent years, from Netflix...
Amazon announces machine learning for AWS
Throughout the history of machine learning, there have been tools that have tried to make it easier to build a learner, with a focus on the “practitioner” rather than the research scientist or professional...
What’s really frightening about Artificial Intelligence? It’s not what you think.
OK, I’ll admit it. AI scares me. But not for the usual reasons: I’m not too concerned about robots taking over the earth or even the Singularity, as are many of my friends. What does frighten me...
Time for big data and machine learning to take a bold step forward…into 1946
We’ve been lost in data for half a century. Time to move on, friends.
Gentle introductions to AI, ML, and DI
Recently, a colleague asked me for some layman introductions to AI and machine learning. He’s on the road and in a bit of a hurry, so I put together a few online resources. A neat...
