TC3 SPONSOR SERIES: Finding Needles in a Haystack with Graph Databases and Machine Learning Telecom Council Blog

You know a technology has reached a tipping point when your kids ask about it. This happened recently when my eighth grade daughter asked, "What is Machine Learning and why is it so important?". Answering her question, I explained how Machine Learning is part of AI, where we teach machines to reason and learn like human beings. I used the example of fraud detection. In many ways catching fraud is like finding needles in a haystack – you must sort and make sense of massive amounts of data in order to find your "needles" or in this case, your fraudsters.