Voice Ordering Is Here. Voice Shopping Is Coming… And It’s Far More Interesting Siri has been with us for years, but it’s in the last few months and largely due to Amazon that voice assistants have won rapid adoption and heightened awareness. Over these past few months, we’ve been shown the power of a new interaction […]
Customers often ask what gives us the qualifications to work in their industry (industries like these, for example). They wonder whether we are able to able to handle the massive amounts and types of data they have available within their respective industries. Before we answer these questions, consider the following: Picture in your mind the industry […]
As I outline in the Machine Learning Field Guide, the concept of Machine Learning arose from interests in having machines learn from data. The industry has seen cycles of stagnation and resurgence in machine learning/AI research since as early as the 1950s. During the 1980s, we saw the emergence of the Multi-layer Perceptron and it’s back […]
To most in the know, Watson has long been considered more hype and marketing than technical reality. Presented as infinitely capable, bleeding edge technology, you might think the well-known Watson brand would be delivering explosive growth to IBM. Reality is far different. IBM’s stock is down in a roaring market. The company is, in effect, laying off […]
Advanced Recommendation Engines Written by Bruce Ho BigR.io’s Chief Data Scientist IMPACT OF RECOMMENDATION ENGINES ON ECOMMERCE When a shopper comes to an eCommerce site, how does she find the items she wants? Search is generally the default option when the site knows nothing about the shopper. Somewhere along the journey though, the shopper starts […]
An Adaptive and Fine-Grained Experience with Big Data & Data Science Written by Bruce Ho BigR.io’s Chief Data Scientist Abstract Your customers tell you a lot about themselves, through their digital interactions and social media assertions. With all the internal and external data you have, you can get to know each one of them as […]
Chopping down a tree is a lot like taking on a business project (e.g., for me that could mean delivering a large software application, creating a new artificial intelligence platform, or building a company). I am on vacation this week and decided to do some yardwork today. The first project I took on was chopping […]
“Alexa, how are you different than Siri?” “I’m more of a home-body” I’m away from my desk, so I guess I can’t ask Alexa. No problem, I’ve got an iPhone in my pocket. “Hey Siri, what’s the status of my Amazon order?” “I wish I could, but Amazon hasn’t set that up with me yet.” […]
While working with eBay Enterprise on a large multi-company effort to create a marketing platform, I saw first-hand the struggle around effective project management. I played Scrum Master for our development team and immersed myself into the eBay Enterprise team, including keeping a desk at their facility. Actually, our entire team kept desks there. We […]
Leveraging Big Data, Advanced Machine Learning, and Complex Event Processing Technologies Written by Bruce Ho BigR.io’s Chief Data Scientist Abstract The global Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow to $1.7 trillion in 2020 from $656 billion in 2014, according to IDC Insights Research. IoT is forecast to generate a staggering 500 zettabytes of data […]