Data Mining

The major trend observed across industry and the public sector is artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) for automation. This, in turn, plays a major part in any digital transformation journey. The trend grew out of the Bay Area, providing a customer-centric view of data and often involved using data as part of the product or service. This consumer- or customer-centric model assumes data enrichment with data from multiple sources. However, fundamentally, it divides the data into two main areas.

This blog post is co-authored by Jaya Mathew and Francesca Lazzeri, data scientists at Microsoft. The Artificial Intelligence Conference in London is a relatively addition to the list of conferences hosted by O'Reilly worldwide. The aim of this conference is to create a forum for the ever-growing AI community to explore the most essential issues and innovations in applied AI. In the conference the various talks covered topics ranging from practical business applications of AI, to compelling AI enabled use cases, to various technical trainings and deep dive into successful AI projects etc. In our session "A day in the life of a data scientist in an AI company", we presented a scientific framework to help organizations to systematically discover opportunities to create value from data, qualify new opportunities and assess their fit and potential, then how to build a team to smoothly implement end-to-end advanced analytics pilots and projects, and produce sustainable ongoing business value from data.

According to a recent marketing report by Forrester Research, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving beyond the buzzword stage as organizational leaders start to realize the amount of work required to make significant use of the technology. The study notes notes that implementing AI to meet objectives requires precise deployment, planning, and governance. Despite this, the report forecasts vast improvements in the technology as big data trends lean further toward AI. In fact, Forrester foresees a redesign of data analysis and management roles that will change intelligence delivery logistics and create a new information marketplace. This revelation is highly likely, as up to 70 percent of businesses plan to implement AI technology in 2018, representing a gain of more than 50 percent compared to the previous year.

The Pentagon on Friday announced it would spend more than $2 billion over the next five years to advance the foundations of artificial intelligence technology. Through the AI Next initiative, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to bring about so-called "third wave" AI, tools capable of human-like communication and contextual reasoning that far surpass the abilities of today's most advanced machine-learning and AI technology. The massive investment comes as global powers like China pour significant resources into their own artificial intelligence R&D programs. "I'm proud to tell you DARPA plans to continue and increase its support for AI research, with a significant focus on the technologies that underpin a third wave of AI," said DARPA Director Steven Walker in the announcement at the agency's 60th anniversary conference. "Let's … double down and commit to ensuring our country continues to create technological surprise for many more years and continues to use that surprise for a better and more secure world."

In 2003, Mother Nature turned off the lights on the East Coast. The reason: a short circuit a hot summer day caused on by a chance encounter between an overgrown tree branch and a sagging power line. The problem quickly cascaded through the system, triggering the biggest blackout in North American history. The outage left 50 million people in the U.S. and Canada without power and by some estimates cost more than $6 billion. But the truth is, most people don't give much thought to our electrical grid until something goes wrong.

In the competitive retail industry, personalization strategies have become table stakes. But for a brand to really connect with a customer, it first has to know that customer. Data science and machine learning are making it easier for brands to get useful insight into their customers based on their behavior. Director of Data and Audience, talked to ZDNet about the different insights it can gain from its customer data -- what decades-old information about a customer can tell you versus the latest updates to their shopping cart. Overstock.com is marketing roughly five-plus million products on a global scale, Robison noted.

The major trend observed across industry and the public sector is artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) for automation.

Companies in all industries must stay up to date with the latest tech to survive in this digital world. This is especially true in the case of machine learning (ML), which has the potential to transform the way businesses process and use their data. While ML has a number of useful applications in the business world, applying it to business intelligence (BI) insights can help you optimize your processes and make even better decisions. Thirteen members of Forbes Technology Council shared some creative ways to combine business intelligence with machine learning to produce the best results for your company. One of the most unique ways to combine business intelligence and machine learning is the identification of fraud indicators.

The banking industry is becoming a digital rather than a physical system. So what sort of leaders should be running a modern bank? Should they be accountants or engineers -- or both? When I was completing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Cambridge 20 years ago, many of my engineering classmates went to work for banks, and some of them run large Wall Street financial companies. The fourth industrial revolution is shrinking the world of work at a rapid rate.

Increasingly available data and rising computational power have combined to usher in a new age of information. We seldom go a day without using some service powered by sophisticated techniques from the data sciences. Machine learning is a set of techniques that have revolutionized the modern world. These approaches involve computer programs that analyze features in input data and develop their own ways of identifying relevant patterns and information. Its applications range from voice recognition in our cell phones and cars to internet searches and recommendation systems.