Machine Learning
Machine learning is Big Data being used at its most extreme level, processing vast and disparate data sets at a machine level to find patterns buried within, producing insights beyond human recognition.
Facial Recognition: Big Data Going Too Far?
Facebook’s DeepFace technology is able to recognize faces 97.25% of the time, against 97.53% for a human. Such developments raise questions about the power of such tools and the implications for the future. Selected use cases of facial recognition technology include: * NameTag: Allows the user of Google Glass to
Speech Recognition: What a Difference Statistics Makes
Speech recognition had long been considered difficult to program, but now appears standard in most modern smartphones. What’s the secret? Statistical modeling. While any word can begin a sentence, the words that follow do not appear in a random order. Machine learning can be employed to enable the software to
Kreditech – Pioneering New Scoring Technology in Consumer Lending
Follow @DataconomyMedia We caught up with Laurent Schüller, Head of Brand Management at Kreditech, to discuss innovations in the personal finance market and Kreditech’s plan for the future. Kreditech is a BIG DATA infrastructure that allows for credit bureau independent acquisition, identification, scoring, retention management in consumer lending. Can you tell us a little bit about Kreditech?
Will Big Data take over the Humanities?
Google Translate is an excellent example of the foray of machine learning into languages. Can we extend this notion into the study of the humanities in general? Enter the digital humanities. There has been a lot of enthusiasm on how technology will open up new avenues of research, as well
Precogs – Improving and Fortifying Supply Chain
We met up with Jean Louis Andorin, COO of Precogs recently. Jean Louis gave us a brief insight into Precogs. Precogs is a business analytics company offering visibility on the risk of adverse events in the electronic manufacturing supply chain. Who are you?
Splunk – Powering Volkswagen E-uP at CeBIT 2014
We met up with Olav Strand, Regional Director of splunk at the Volkswagen stand in CeBIT. Olav gave us a brief insight into splunk and its EMEA operations. He also explained the interesting collaboration that splunk had with Volkswagen Data Lab at CeBIT in Hannover. splunk is an American multinational corporation headquartered
Supermarket Tesco pioneers Big Data
Supermarket Giant Tesco pioneers Big Data: Turning Customer Loyalty into Royalties
The Three Big Data Waves breaking now
Big data is overwhelmingly powerful, overwhelmingly omnipresent, and most of all, overwhelming to grasp. As such, three factors, three big data waves are currently rolling into our ports. Big data is to be generated, gathered, and aggregated, accumulated, produced, analyzed, and understood at ever increasing speeds. With the ‘internet of
