Consider how the software development life cycle (SLDC) is well-defined at this point: planning, creating, testing, deploying, maintaining – or some variant, depending on your software methodology. The gist remains consistent. Computer software runs “logic” in...
This blog post by Douglas Hamilton, Chief Data Scientist and Managing Director of NASDAQ’s Machine Intelligence Lab, explores applying machine learning to the portfolio management problem to derive better indexes. I'm Doug Hamilton – I'm Chief Data...
This post is adapted from a talk by Charles Alcorn – Head of Data Science at Roche Molecular Systems and describes medical content management concepts for the field of Oncology. Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that develops and produces...
If you are having the following symptoms at your company when it comes to business KPI forecasting, then maybe you need to look at automated forecasting: Ugly Excel spreadsheets with multiple tabs and 2000s style pastel formatting Business unit managers, store...
At most companies, a data scientist’s main objective is to determine how machine learning technologies can revolutionize business procedures. In his insightful talk in February 2018 at Data Science Salon Miami, Mark Fridson Principal Data Scientist at Carnival Cruise...
We live in a society that can be resistant to change, especially when it comes to technology. But according to Justin Hendrix, Executive Director of New York City Media Lab, the discussions surrounding AR and VR are hardly different from debates that surely...
Staying updated in our vastly changing world is very important, but breaking news is not the only content out there. Anna Coenen, Senior Data Scientist at the New York Times, is determined to make sure that evergreen content reaches the audience that will value it the...
Innovations in Data Science have increased not only the amount of consumer data available to brands, but also the methods in which this data can be measured. Data Scientists in the retail industry are no longer limited to counting coupons and moreover, can focus...
Especially in a field as new and evolving as data science, your strategy is only as good as your product. Fortunately, the industry is not so new that help can’t be found. Lauren Lombardo, Senior Data Scientist at Nielsen, took the stage at DSSNYC to inform data...
In a world where even the most basic purchases and decisions depend on credit scores, accuracy holds significant weight. Gerald Fahner, Senior Principal Scientist at FICO, explains not only how his team uses machine learning to retrieve individual’s scores across...