When I was a social worker, I had a young client who had learned his way around cars. Whatever you needed to do on your old pickup truck, he knew how to redneck it, as he put it. It was the first time I'd heard the term redneck used as a verb, but it turns out that's a real thing. Seemed to me he had a future as a mechanic and that's what I encouraged him to do. According to … [Read more...] about When AI Takes Over, Will Mechanics and Millennials Lose Out?
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2nd Annual Global Predictive Analytics Forum in MENA
Research firms project the predictive analytics market to reach $5.2 to $6.5 billion by 2018/2019; they are calling it the game changer as it has helped reinvent 6 industries (Healthcare, Manufacturing, Marketing & Financial Services, Government, Credit Risk Insurance and Workforce Management). This is the why more and more organizations are turning to predictive … [Read more...] about 2nd Annual Global Predictive Analytics Forum in MENA
How Big Data Changed Online Dating
Most of the young men would have considered the happy hour at Chainsaw Sisters Saloon as a target-rich environment. The place was packed and the drinks were cheap. Predominantly, the odds of getting lucky were very low. Empirically, millennials know that bar crawling is for recreation but not for low-percentage mating rituals, time-wasting, archaic. There are many dating apps … [Read more...] about How Big Data Changed Online Dating
Data, Metadata, Algorithms & Ethics
The topic of ethical big data use is one that will likely continue popping up in the headlines with increasing frequency in the coming years. As the IoT, AI, and other data-driven technologies become further integrated with our social identities, the more discussion regarding its regulation we will see. Recently, transparency advocates began pushing The Open, Public, Electronic … [Read more...] about Data, Metadata, Algorithms & Ethics
How Big Data Is Reshaping the Fashion Industry
Big data gets a lot of attention in discussions about the financial, healthcare, and marketing sectors -- in large part because they were already numbers-driven fields. Anyone could see how more, better data would improve efficiency and profitability there. However, big data is having effects on other niches, such as the fashion industry, surprising to say. Fashion doesn't seem … [Read more...] about How Big Data Is Reshaping the Fashion Industry
