Food is important and you are what you eat. Eating healthy and good food is important if you wish to be fit and healthy. Even if you have an unhealthy diet, the occasional big mac, you want your food to be of good quality. Meaning you want your food to be well-treated throughout the supply chain and without any unhealthy bacteria. Fortunately, there are a lot of regulations to … [Read more...] about 7 Companies Protecting Your Food with Blockchain
Archives for 2019
How Big Data Can Help With Crop Yield
Agriculture has long been the backbone of a healthy civilization and with the capabilities technology currently offers, it would be irresponsible to not embrace an opportunity to unite both and maximize our efforts towards the improvement of sustainable farming. One way to achieve innovative solutions is through the collection and evaluation of big data. By harvesting the … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Help With Crop Yield
Data Ownership Challenges and Controversies: 2019
Technology has rapidly advanced in the past decade, an impossible feat without the use of large quantities of data. But businesses and consumers alike are now talking about who owns this data ” and what it's worth. Companies collect your data daily when you use your smartphone, jump on a hotspot, connect to your car's Bluetooth, operate your smart TV and more. Each new purchase … [Read more...] about Data Ownership Challenges and Controversies: 2019
How to Help a Non-Technical Audience Understand their Readiness for Data Science
Last week I had the pleasure of working with the University of South Wales (USW) to help non-technical people understand Data Science. More specifically, I was running a Masterclass entitled Everyday Data Science . The brief was to demystify this topic for a diverse audience. It was clearly popular as it drew a good crowd. The delegates who attended my Masterclass varied from … [Read more...] about How to Help a Non-Technical Audience Understand their Readiness for Data Science
Machine learning: Changing the Beauty Industry
Several years ago a friend of mine, who was a biologist, was talking about their weird experiments. They were shaving mice and if this was done this in a particular way, the mice remained bald for the rest of their short lives. Their team was dreaming to extrapolate this magic technique to humans and shake the waxing industry. It is unlikely that they have succeeded, but the … [Read more...] about Machine learning: Changing the Beauty Industry
