Tag: machine learning

November 15, 2017

Rock breaks scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cut paper. Those are the rules of Rock-Paper-Scissors, the ancient game people play with their hands. But wouldn’t it be better if those tools could join forces for the common good? The question […]

July 19, 2017

According to IDC, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to become pervasive across customer journeys, supply networks, merchandizing, and marketing and commerce because it provides better insights to optimize retail execution. For example, in the next two years: 40% of digital transformation […]

July 5, 2017

Great news for employees: Travis Tompkins, senior manager at Deloitte Consulting LLP, predicts that companies will soon be removing 20%–30% of all mundane activities from their employees’ to-do lists. That means more time to do real work and think. “Automating […]

June 28, 2017

Machine learning in retail takes the industry beyond the basics of Big Data. For years now, we’ve been told that data is king and that it should be tapped for all decisions: what to stock, how much to buy, what […]

May 8, 2017

For the past few years, there has been a mantra that “every business is a software business.” While that’s true, it’s also becoming outdated. Software is such an obvious part of doing business that you no longer need to acknowledge […]

May 3, 2017

When Google recently announced changes to its venerable Google Analytics homepage, user reactions to the reboot reminded me of fans’ reactions when superheroes transition from the pages of comic books to the world of big-budget Hollywood movies. Inevitably, there are […]

March 29, 2017

How analytics have evolved. Who would’ve thought just a few short years ago that we’d be speaking about predictive analytics and machine learning in the same sentence? Predictive analytics has existed for decades. But it has received increased attention recently […]

March 31, 2016

In Seoul, South Korea, a Google-created artificial intelligence has been squaring off against a mortal man in the 2,500-year-old strategy game, called Go, that’s several orders of magnitude more complicated than chess. When it was finally over, Google’s AlphaGo won […]

February 24, 2015

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Adtile. Imagine you walk by an Italian restaurant and your phone knows exactly where you are. It knows you love gnocchi and you even traveled to Milan recently. It offers you […]