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Humans vs. Robots vs. Robots vs. Humans: Part 2 (Cybersecurity, AI, and Human Rights)

05/24/2021

Our last month’s edition of the Dataspace newsletter looked at the growing applications of AI for cybersecurity, and explored how some of the major players in tech are incorporating AI based security tools into the suite of products they offer to business clients. However, it is also important to note that hacking can present a […]

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AI Detectives – Using Data to Sleuth out the Truth

02/04/2021

The idea for this week\’s blog post started just after the Presidential Inauguration.. . when all of a sudden Bernie Sanders memes flooded the internet. Bernie and his mittens were photoshopped into just about every landscape, movie poster, or iconic photo you can think of. Some of my personal favorites are here below: What struck

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What Does Predictive Text Spell for Human Writing?

01/20/2021

Hello, my name is a very merry birthday. You killed my dog. Prepare to be the best burgers. I think we should all do that tomorrow and I can take a look at the schedule. It smells like you are going on the same day. I was born to the internet in the internet for

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Is AI Coming For Your Job?

11/11/2020

Probably not, yet. While Dataspace can’t do anything to help with your anxiety about election data, we can provide some relief from another trending anxiety-inducer: the fear that AI is coming for your job. Don’t worry. In a lot of areas AI is just not ready to make human workers redundant. Exhibit A: Live Sports

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Will Covid Break Data Science?

09/23/2020

Data Science / Predictive Analytics / Artificial Intelligence Is Largely About Extrapolation At its heart, predictive analytics is about making educated guesses regarding the future based on things you know about the past. Thus, the field assumes that the future will work like the past did. But, what if the future doesn’t look anything like the past?

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What does it mean to hash data and do I really care?

12/13/2017

What is Hashing? Hashing is simply passing some data through a formula that produces a result, called a hash. That hash is usually a string of characters and the hashes generated by a formula are always the same length, regardless of how much data you feed into it. For example, the MD5 formula always produces

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Data Science and Predictive Analytics Explained in Two Sentences

10/18/2017

Predictive analytics is this super-complex field that only statisticians and data scientists can understand, right? Well, perhaps it takes some training to do it well but it only takes two sentences to understand what it’s all about: In predictive analytics we determine the likelihood of something by looking at data about it. We do this

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Kafka: What Is it?

09/18/2017

If nothing else, the data science industry is good at coming up with new, unique, confusing names and terms. ZooKeeper, MapReduce, Hadoop, Pig, Storm, Mahout MongoDB…the list keeps growing and it’s totally understandable if you can’t always identify or explain the different technologies and tools of the industry. In each article in this series we

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Artificial intelligence & insurance: how AI is changing the industry

08/23/2017

Any serious conversation about the future of data and analytics invariably turns to the topic of artificial intelligence. The past year has seen AI surge in popularity, with high profile corporations and personalities getting behind what many people believe could be the biggest technological watershed moment since the advent of the internet. Indeed, many companies

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Pitching Your 2018 Data Science Budget

08/09/2017

Last week we offered some suggestions on how to attack your data management initiatives in 2018 according to your organization’s level of data expertise. This week we follow up with some tips on how to pitch those new data science technologies and initiatives to increase your chances of getting resources allocated to your projects. As

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