BigML has brought Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the platform. PCA is a key unsupervised Machine Learning technique used to transform a given dataset in order to yield uncorrelated features and reduce dimensionality. PCA fundamentally transforms a dataset defined by possibly correlated variables into a set of uncorrelated variables, called principal components. When used for […]
Who’s in charge of the connected car? Ask the driver in the loop
Don’t you hate it when someone criticises your driving? Why are we going this way? Slow down! Speed up! Don’t let that car push in! Interfering busybodies don’t just hike up your hypertension, says Nick Booth. They’re dangerous, because they distract you while you’re in charge of a ton of speeding metal. These patronising interventions are even worse […]
Recapping BigML’s 2018 in Numbers
Another year has gone by in a hurry in the Machine Learning world of BigML. 2018 saw the interest in Machine Learning from all industries continually get stronger. Not only are we seeing an increase in the level of awareness and sophistication towards productive business applications running existing processes more efficiently, but we’re also witnessing novel […]
Self-driving pariah Anthony Levandowski claims California to New York breakthrough
Controversial ex-Google and Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski has reportedly completed a four-day, 3,099 mile journey from California to New York in an autonomous vehicle, without having to disengage the self-driving system. Levandowski informed the Guardian that, although he was sitting in the driver’s seat the entire time, he did not touch the steering wheels or […]
Magic or reality? Supply chain visibility across channels
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke This iconic quote from Clarke certainly applies to the modern world of the retail supply chain and recent developments almost seem like magic: one-hour pickup, curb-side delivery, placing orders inside a customer’s home or from a car trunk, all fantastic options which may have […]
Principal Component Analysis: Technical Overview
This past week we’ve been blogging about BigML’s new Principal Component Analysis (PCA) feature. In this post, we will continue on that topic and discuss some of the mathematical fundamentals of PCA, and reveal some of the technical details of BigML’s implementation. Let’s revisit our old friend the iris dataset. To simplify visualizations, we’ll just […]
Opinion: The future of cryptocurrency relies on regulation
Andrew Kirillov, CFO at TradingView, discusses why he believes regulation is essential to the future success of cryptocurrency. NEW CONNECTIONS An occasional series of vendor perspectives on the world of connected business. To regulate cryptocurrency or not – that is the question challenging industry leaders, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and now Congress. With headlines […]
Elon Musk unveils Loop high-speed transport tunnel prototype
Elon Musk’s personal mission to tackle LA’s traffic congestion took a significant step forward last night as a prototype tunnel was presented with characteristic fanfare. The initial Test Tunnel, located in Hawthorne, California, is being used for the research and development of The Boring Company’s tunnelling and public transportation systems. Attendees were given the opportunity […]
Smart cities: Is it wise to get smarter?
We are in an era of intelligent and urgent urban innovation. Our homes are connected, our streets are thriving labyrinths of interconnectivity, and our businesses are a hive of data streaming and surveillance. Communities are now emerging as sophisticated centres of technical excellence, says Keiron Shepherd, senior security specialist, F5 Networks, prompting micro and macro revolutions in virtually […]
Bringing Automated Machine Learning to the All-in-One Data Warehouse
SlicingDice and BigML partner to bring the very first Data Warehouse embedding Automated Machine Learning. This All-in-One solution will provide guardrails for thousands of organizations struggling to keep up with insight discovery and decision automation goals. Due to the accelerating data growth in our decade, the focus for all businesses has naturally turned to data […]