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Business

Working from home means working different hours, but not necessarily more

The National Bureau of Economic Research analyzed the side effects of remote work using data…

Jan 11, 2022

What will applied AI look like in 2022?

AI adoption has skyrocketed throughout the last 18 months. Besides Joe McKendrick, who wrote the…

Dec 29, 2021

Taking the world by simulation: The rise of synthetic data in AI

Would you trust AI that has been trained on synthetic data, as opposed to real-world…

Dec 21, 2021

2022 technology trend review, part two: AI and graphs

AI and graphs have a few things in common: they are multi-faceted, ubiquitous in their…

Dec 21, 2021

SambaNova is enabling disruption in the enterprise with AI language models, computer vision, recommendations, and graphs

SambaNova just added another offering under its umbrella of AI-as-a-service portfolio for enterprises: GPT language…

Nov 15, 2021

Technical

Lexmark looks to strengthen its IoT solution to remain competitive

Arguably, two of the most iconic examples of digital transformation are Kodak and Amazon. Kodak…

Mar 22, 2022

Andrew Ng predicts the next 10 years in AI

Did you ever feel you’ve had enough of your current line of work and wanted…

Mar 21, 2022

Running AI workloads is coming to a virtual machine near you, powered by GPUs and Kubernetes

Run:AI offers a virtualization layer for AI, aiming to facilitate AI infrastructure. It’s seeing lots…

Mar 15, 2022

The rise of first-mile observability: Calyptia enables enterprises to log all the things

Cloud-native is the name of the game for application development. The creators of the Fluent…

Mar 1, 2022

Aporia takes aim at ML observability, responsible AI and more

Is there a line connecting machine learning observability to explainability, leading to responsible AI? Aporia,…

Feb 23, 2022

Socio-Technical

Data science vs the COVID-19 pandemic: Flattening the curve — but how?

Whether they are epidemiologists or not, a few people have attempted to use data and…

Mar 20, 2020

Data science vs social media disinformation: the case of climate change and the Australian bushfires

While a newly released World Weather Attribution study ties the Australian bushfires to anthropogenic climate…

Mar 4, 2020

Make software great again: can open source be ethical and fair?

Is there a way to go beyond open source, and have ethical, fair software in…

Feb 27, 2020

Amazon and commercial open source in the cloud: It’s complicated

What do the data tell us about the relationship between cloud vendors — specifically, Amazon…

Feb 18, 2020

Use Cases

Human in the loop: Machine learning and AI for the people

HITL is a mix and match approach that may help make ML both more efficient…

May 23, 2018

GDPR in real life: Fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Part one: Why are most organizations still not ready for GDPR? And what are the…

May 18, 2018

Planet analytics 1.0: From the UN lab to the globe

The United Nations (UN) is developing initiatives that leverage data and analytics to measure and…

Apr 20, 2018

Conway’s Law and the future of healthcare data management: Genome, Blockchain, and GDPR

Maladies in healthcare data management are obvious, but what about solutions? From selling Genome data…

Apr 11, 2018

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