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Tech Tuesdays: An Introduction to Sentiment Analysis

Recently I started reading a book called Nonviolent Communication. The book really got me thinking about the intricacies of text and communication; in particular, the ways text can be interpreted and even charged. This week I want to talk about…

zankMay 4, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Why Data Labeling is a Billion Dollar Business

Data labeling is a really big deal. In this week’s Tech Tuesday, I’ll discuss what data labeling is, why it’s so important to A.I., what the biggest players in the data labeling space do, and share my thoughts on the…

zankApril 27, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Are Social Networks Starting to do the Right Thing?

This week, I’m happy to review a couple of areas where I feel data science is making important moral advances. First of all, the idea of paying users for using their data; and secondly how social networks are testing ways…

zankApril 20, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: 5 Ways to Improve Business With Data Science

Data science has the potential to inform critical decisions, allowing companies to automate or scale processes and improve their business. This week, I’ll cover five ways we’ve recently used data science to help our clients improve their bottom line. Some…

zankApril 13, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Get More out of Your Data Science Spend

Sometimes several small solutions perform better than one big one. This week I want to show you why it’s worth considering replacing one big predictive model with multiple smaller ones. This is something we’ve been doing for our clients lately…

zankApril 6, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: The Future of Photo Editing – Super Resolution

Adobe just unveiled “Super Resolution” - Adobe’s term for A.I. driven photo enlargement. It’s a big deal for a lot of reasons and in this week’s Tech Tuesday, I’ll talk about how we’ve been enlarging images to date using bicubic…

zankMarch 30, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: How Computers Emulate Music Production Hardware

A departure from most weeks, let’s look at something that’s always interested me: how engineers emulate the sounds of classic analog devices, such as keyboards or sound effects, and make them available to anyone with a computer, or even a…

zankMarch 23, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: The Adoption of A.I. Since the Pandemic – Where Have we Gone?

Remember what happened to A.I. when the pandemic started almost exactly a year ago? At first, we all noticed how A.I. models were suddenly off. Purchasing behavior and behavior overall became much less predictable and data scientists were needed to…

zankMarch 16, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Facebook Open Sources Huge Advances in Computer Vision

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…

zankMarch 9, 2021

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Tech Tuesdays: Out Now! The State of Ethics in A.I

A.I. is becoming more and more ubiquitous, from recommending the (sometimes only) news we read to assessing our risk and policy specifics for insurance to deciding whether or not we qualify for a mortgage. With such power implicated in A.I.…

zankMarch 2, 2021