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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Got 15 minutes to watch this thrilling video about the current state and future promises of artificial intelligence? I hope you do, because this week I’m going to give my opinion on a few of these points from a recent…
zankMay 18, 2021