Machine Learning

It is often said that the only people who made their fortunes in the California gold rush were those selling spades and sieves. There is a striking similarity with the contemporary rush to anything with names such as “analytics”, “predictive analytics”, “machine learning” and so on. The people selling the…

A thought provoking article contributed by the Adoriasoft team. When the industrial revolution started, people had no idea that it would end up changing the whole world. Too many people simply categorize the industrial revolution as just the ability to produce more and new products and do not realize how it fundamentally…

Machine learning is becoming such an important business technology that some of the largest suppliers of technology are providing free courses for executives. One example is SAP, with its Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell course. Many suppliers have traditionally catered to executive needs for information by creating bland, high…

SAP Machine Learning is being introduced to make its business applications more intelligent and empower its ecosystem to build machine learning (ML) applications for customers. Spanning its own solutions, partner programs and educational offerings, these programs will help accelerate ML adoption across SAP’s global customer base. This announcement was made at…

Some surprisingly honest revelations are available in a booklet promoting a conference on Machine Learning in the Insurance Industry. It can be downloaded here. The obvious applications revolve around claims processing, fraud detection, policy pricing and customer acquisition. The firms that are prototyping with machine learning all see benefits, but…

Machine learning in the enterprise is already happening. Sophisticated predictive sales applications can pinpoint the best prospects to close, with much greater accuracy than experienced sales reps. Recommendation engines may be suggesting additional products that customers might want to buy. In banking it is already commonplace to have systems which…

The terms AI and machine learning are often used together, but they are quite different things. To a large extent machine learning can be considered as just one of many methods to build agents (things that do something) which exhibit intelligence. The word ‘intelligence’ does not bestow any mystical quality…

Updated 21 March 2016 Machine Learning as a Service Platforms 2016 Machine learning is a nebulous term used to address capabilities such as face recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, predictive analytics and specific techniques such as deep learning (deep neural networks). All the services listed below provide APIs so…

Big data is exciting, full of potential, and dangerous. The term now encapsulates data mining, business intelligence, predictive analytics, data visualization, and pretty much everything else we might want to do with data. So, here are five ways you can really damage your business with big data: Predictive Analytics and…