Over a quarter of retailers have deployed AI to date. This is according to Capgemini’s Research Institute’s latest AI in retail report. The research found a 17 percent increase in AI deployments from 2017, and a seven-fold increase from 2016, when just four percent of retailers had adopted AI technology. This is compared to 28 […]
The Troll’s Hat that will change the way you think about your car
Trollhättan sounds like a typical Swedish city – beautiful, creative and progressive. Only one thing lets it down, but let’s ignore that for now, says Nick Booth. This town shows how to adapt before the world leaves you behind. It moved from heavy industry to creating intellectual property and kept growing. Its engineers gave the world hydropower. […]
Cost is the definitive issue for an IoT solution to be scalable
Semtech is a US-based supplier of high performance semiconductors and advanced algorithms for communications and industrial end-markets. The company’s LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology – LoRa – offers long range, low power wireless connectivity that has become a leader in the low power wide area (LPWA) networking market worldwide. The company is a […]
If you need to connect a low bandwidth device for a decade why do it more than 1NCE?
Younes Allaki is chief technology officer of 1NCE and one of the company’s four founders who managed to develop and launch an IoT mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in just under six months earlier this year. The company is bringing a new approach to IoT connectivity with a headline offering of the 1NCE Lifetime fee: […]
Automating Principal Component Analysis
Today’s post is the fifth one of our series of blog posts about BigML Principal Component Analysis (PCA) unique implementation, the latest resource added to our platform. PCA is a different type of task in the Data Preparation phase described in the CRISP-DM methodology, which implies the creation of a new dataset based on an existing one. […]
Digital Ethics: Data is the new forklift
Joanna Goodman reports from last week’s Digital ethics summit. Governments, national and international institutions and businesses must join forces to make sure that AI and emerging technology are deployed successfully and responsibly. This was the central message from TechUK’s second Digital Ethics Summit in London. Antony Walker, TechUK’s deputy CEO set out the purpose of […]
A REST API for Principal Component Analysis
As part of our PCA release, we have released a series of blog posts, including a use case and a demonstration of the BigML Dashboard. In this installment, we shift our focus to implement Principal Component analysis with the BigML REST API. PCA is a powerful data transformation technique and unsupervised Machine Learning method that […]
Andrew Ng’s AI Transformation Playbook shares key lessons
Co-founder of Google Brain and former Chief Scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, has unveiled an AI Transformation Playbook. The guide to successfully adopting AI in enterprise draws on insights gained from leading AI teams at Google and Baidu. Andrew Ng claims that, “it is possible for any enterprise to follow this Playbook and become a […]
Cloud Security Concerns: IT vs. LoB
Data shows a divide in perceptions on cloud security between IT and lines of business. The cloud is here. You may choose to use cloud-based applications with software as a service (SaaS). Alternately, you may choose your own applications resident in the cloud with platform as a service (PaaS). In either case, you will likely […]
How remote monitoring provides real-time information for improved servicing
In the “Quick Start Guide: Monitoring Equipment with IoT” eBook, Tech-Clarity, an independent manufacturing technology research firm, shows how manufacturers can use remote monitoring to quickly identify failures and efficiently repair equipment. Tech-Clarity provides actionable steps that manufacturers can take to connect remote equipment, gather the right data and put that data to use. Download […]