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Voice Shopping

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…

Intelligence & Wisdom

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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…

The Black Arts of Machine Learning

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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…

Watson's Reckoning

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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…

Timber!: A process centric approach to chopping down a tree or new business project.

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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…

Plays Well With Others: Your Team of AIs

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"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…

An Agile Story (pun intended)

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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…

Complex Event Data Analysis and Processing

Schema-on-what?

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Recently, a customer asked us to help transition a set of data flows from an overwhelmed RDBMS to a “Big Data” system. These data flows had a batch dynamic, and there was some comfort with Pig Latin in-house, so this made for an ideal target…

The Data Architecture Lifecycle

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It’s a very exciting time to be in the data world, with new and groundbreaking technologies released seemingly every day. There is every temptation to pick up today’s new shiny, find an excuse to throw it into production, and call it an…

WHITE PAPERS

Deep Learning in Image and Video Recognition

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Deep Learning: Image and Video Recognition Written by Bruce Ho BigR.io’s Chief Big Data Scientist Abstract This paper illustrates the advancements in implementing Deep Neural Networks for automatic feature extraction in image and video…

Advanced Recommendation Engines

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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…

CASE STUDIES

Architecture and POC of Managed Data Hub

Case Studies

A rapidly growing niche analytics firm has developed cutting-edge models helping retailers within their industry make improved product recommendations to customers. These recommendations not only match appropriate products to…