How can you measure ROI for your IoT initiatives? Are you fully monetizing and bringing measurable value to your smart, connected projects? The “IoT Monetization and the Network Effect” eBook explores how to maximize the value of your IoT investments, including how to: Measure and prove that your IoT projects are valuable and solving distinctive […]
Combining Optical Flow and Semantic Segmentation for Automated Annotation and Quality Control
Manual annotations of single frames in video sequences can be a daunting and time consuming process due to the sheer amount of image data. For example, video recordings at 1080HD with 30 fps will generate 180 MB/s of uncompressed image data. Our in-house computer vision team has been conducting research on technologies to speed up […]
Principal Component Analysis with the BigML Dashboard: Easy as 1-2-3!
The BigML Team is bringing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to the BigML platform on December 20, 2018. As explained in our introductory post, PCA is an unsupervised learning technique that can be used in different scenarios such as feature transformation, dimensionality reduction, and exploratory data analysis. PCA, explained in a nutshell, fundamentally transforms a dataset defined by possibly correlated variables […]
Applying Dimensionality Reduction with PCA to Cancer Data
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a powerful and well-established data transformation method that can be used for data visualization, dimensionality reduction, and possibly improved performance with supervised learning tasks. In this use case blog, we examine a dataset consisting of measurements of benign and malignant tumors which are computed from digital images of a fine […]
The IoT data opportunity for logistics companies is here
The Internet of Things (IoT) has moved rapidly from intriguing concept to key strategy objective that companies know they must pursue to transform their business and customer experience. In fact, a Forrester survey commissioned by Arm earlier this year found more than 60 percent of respondents believe their IoT investments have or will fundamentally change […]
Parallels: Cross Industry Context for the Blockchain Industry
Parallels to the Blockchain Industry While none of these industries are directly comparable, if the development of these industries serves as any indication of the way in which the blockchain industry will develop, the industry will fragment into use case specific blockchains. As explained in greater detail below, meaningful value will accrue to the companies […]
Facebook Begins Hiring For Blockchain Positions, Continues Its Secret Date With Cryptocurrencies
Facebook has had a very interesting relationship with blockchain and cryptocurrencies. While the social media tech giant has been stringent with its advertising policies against cryptocurrencies and ICO’s, it seems to have been slowly building its blockchain and cryptocurrency war chest. According to the recent job openings put up on Facebook Careers website, the tech […]
Introduction to Principal Component Analysis: Dimensionality Reduction Made Easy
BigML’s upcoming release on Thursday, December 20, 2018, will be presenting our latest resource to the platform: Principal Component Analysis (PCA). In this post, we’ll do a quick introduction to PCA before we move on to the remainder of our series of 6 blog posts (including this one) to give you a detailed perspective of what’s behind the new capabilities. Today’s […]
Zhang Shoucheng, Founder of Blockchain VC Firm Danhua Capital Died at 55
Reports reveal that in fight of depression, professor Zhang Shoucheng who was the founder of blockchain VC firm Danhua Capital died at 55. Besides, an award-winning professor of physics at Standford University, Zhang was also a founding chairman of Danhua Capital. <![CDATA[ ]]> As per the Chinese report, Zhang had attended the meeting a day […]
Saudi Arabia’s ICD Bank Announces Blockchain Powered Islamic Banking Solutions
The Saudi media reported that the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) is planning to develop sharia-compliant blockchain product. ICD’s plan of rolling financial products powered by blockchain is to enable Islamic banks to manage their liquidity needs. <![CDATA[ ]]> With the proposed plan for developing blockchain solutions for an Islamic […]