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Tech Tuesdays: Wow, it’s Incredible What the Latest Language Models can Do!

We’ve seen language models before: enter a question and an A.I. provides the “answer”. Nowadays, A.I. has gotten so good that humans cannot differentiate between an A.I.-derived answer and a human-given answer. Language models have been called the greatest A.I.…

zankFebruary 23, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Predicting Covid-19 Mortality With Medical Records

The esteemed journal Nature recently published an article titled, Predicting COVID-19 mortality with electronic medical records. That’s a big deal. Because it’s not a study looking at predicting mortality from hospital records of admitted patients; rather it uses only electronic…

zankFebruary 16, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Behind the Curtain of Facebook’s News Feed

Newsfeeds have proven to be powerful if controversial parts of social networks. Instagram has one. So do Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook. All have seen their share of negative press as of late, revolving largely around how fake news may affect…

zankFebruary 9, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: What’s Better – Speed or Accuracy?

We’re often asked to deliver value early in a new engagement. This makes a lot of sense; customers want a return on investment, and when better than early to see it? But what’s better? To aim for speed or accuracy?…

zankFebruary 2, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Why You Can’t Simplify the Value of Data Scientists

What’s the value of a data science initiative? Shouldn’t it be some sort of lift? Maybe profits increase by 4%? Or more sign-ups are registered? Or something else that a data scientist can quantify and put on their resume to…

zankJanuary 26, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Lying With Statistics

We’re into the new year and as much as I do my best to stay out of the way of the news, some of it finds its way to me. This week I want to shed some light on what…

zankJanuary 12, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Happy Holidays!

In our final Tech Tuesday for the year, I want to wish you all a healthy and happy holiday. This year has been surreal at times and I hope you’ve all kept your health and good spirits as much as…

zankDecember 22, 2020

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Tech Tuesdays: Should we use A.I. to Catch Cheaters?

Remember test taking? Or maybe you’re still taking them. Did you ever cheat on one or have friends who did? There were so many “tricks”. Of course, cheating never pays off in the long run, but that doesn’t stop students…

zankDecember 15, 2020

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Tech Tuesdays: Good Luck Reusing Analytics Models Without This

Last week I spoke at the Transforming Data With Intelligence (TDWI) virtual conference. The topic was the reuse of analytics models - where an analytics model is designed once and reused for multiple purposes. When done right, the reuse of…

zankDecember 8, 2020

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Tech Tuesdays – The Magic of Market Basket Analysis

With everyone shopping like crazy during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I figured it would be timely and relevant to discuss a simple way to personalize offers to customers at scale, using a simple recommendation technique: market basket analysis. I’ll…

zankDecember 1, 2020