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Tech Tuesdays: You Probably Don’t Have a Big Data Problem

Generally, as companies scale, they create more data. If they’re data-driven, this means more costs, as compute power generally increases with increasing amounts of data. In this week’s Tech Tuesday, I want to look at ways companies can handle large…

zankAugust 3, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Understanding Covid Cases Quickly [A Walkthrough]

I recently spent a bit of time in Europe, and with COVID cases rising, it was important for me to understand the numbers that might drive policy (read: closures) that may affect my time there. This week I want to…

zankJuly 27, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Will Github’s Copilot Allow A.I. to Write Itself? Not exactly.

GitHub just rolled out an interesting new feature that helps programmers (read, data scientists) write code more efficiently. In this week's Tech Tuesday, I’ll explain what this new feature does, how it’s being used, and how this type of technology…

zankJuly 20, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Wish you Could “Unsee” That bad YouTube Video?

Ever seen something on YouTube you wish you could “unsee”? If so, you’re not alone. A recent crowdsourced study by Mozilla, the creators of Firefox and a competitor in many ways to Google, used a browser extension that allowed viewers…

zankJuly 13, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Why Facebook’s Revolutionary A.I. Will Change how you Shop

In their own words, the Facebook Artificial Intelligence team says, "Facebook A.I. is on a quest to build the world’s largest shoppable social media platform, where billions of items can be bought and sold in one place.” In this week’s…

zankJuly 6, 2021

Bennett Data Science Tech Tuesday Explainable Artificial Intelligence

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Tech Tuesdays: Why Explainable A.I. is a Big Deal

It used to be that when we got a recommendation for a product, we were told, or otherwise understood, that other people like us also liked this thing we were being recommended. Generally speaking, that’s called collaborative filtering: filtering all…

zankJune 29, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Want guaranteed ROI from your A.I. spend?

Want to lower risk and stay in tune with your customers? Constant hypothesis testing is one of the best ways to do this. As data scientists, we build algorithms with the purpose of automating tasks. We have a good idea…

zankJune 15, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: The Pros and Cons of A.I. for Cancer Detection

Last week I discussed how tricky it can be to understand a true diagnosis versus a false one. In this week’s Tech Tuesday, I want to look at a company called Galleri (no affiliation with BDS) that claims to detect…

zankJune 8, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: See if You Know the Answer to This Tricky Question

There’s been a lot of talk about false positive and false negative rates lately, especially with Covid testing being so widespread. If you receive a negative Covid test with a 90% false negative, does that mean that you only have…

zankJune 1, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Understanding Data Comes Down to 2 Basic Actions

When we help our clients tactically, we’re often asked: what are you going to do first? Of course, we generally start off with a list of high-level company objectives and the KPIs that are used to measure them. But when…

zankMay 25, 2021

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