by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Algorithms are only as good as their trainers, argues Alchemy One’s Joel Trethowan. He makes a thoughtful case in Mumbrella: In problem solving, you have two parts – the first part, where you break the problem down into its components to really see what’s going...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights, Jobs and Salaries
Data is a strategic asset that has been left un-leveraged by many federal agencies. A study conducted by Jane Wiseman of Harvard has identified a crying need for more Chief Data Officers in federal government. Wiseman’s analysis found that among the ten largest...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Text mining, Tools
Researchers C. Oswald and B. Sivaselvan have published a paper exploring a set of text and image algorithms that generate anywhere from 18% to 751% improvement in compression ratio. Oswald and Sivaselvan’s research can be read in the Data Science Journal. Here is an...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Firms should use AI techniques to generate new revenue rather than cut costs. This was one of several findings of MIT’s Sloan Management Review’ 2018 Global Executive Study on AI. The MIT Sloan study points out that companies that are early AI adopters will gain a big...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Tools
A construction worker might find a shovel helpful for digging the foundation of a house. But a shovel isn’t going to go very far when he starts putting up the walls. Roger Peng, professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, writes that there is no single best...
