Artificial Intelligence

A practical guide for Tableau(image by author)Tableau is a powerful and efficient tool to create data visualizations. It allows for creating highly informative plots without writing any code. Besides, multiple visualizations can easily be combined into a dashboard.Storytelling is a fundamental part of data scientists’ job and data visualization is a must for storytelling. Thus, … [Read more...] about World Happiness Dashboard in Tableau

I’m on the 16th day of the 11th month, the year 5993 in my own Hebrew calendar. I know the full moon is directly above my roof and around 3am Friday early dawn, it was very windy. I can hear the rustling of the leaves in the wind, so I opened my eyes, looked around and said “Bixby! What is the weather now?” ~It is mostly cloudy and 70 degrees right now.I whispered to myself, … [Read more...] about The 3 women in my life that gave me pleasure.

I’m sharing a monthly curated list of short and concentrated updated on Healthcare AI. This may transition to another platform — to stay connected and receive updates, subscribe here.Clinical AI Departments have the potential to become a routine part of hospital operations as a predictive tool and diagnostic aid, if the technology is properly employed and integrated. Hospitals … [Read more...] about Healthcare AI: News Digest (Jan)

Meredith Broussard is a data journalist, developer, and professor with a focus on artificial intelligence and investigative reporting. A wonder to the tech world, her priority appears to be exploring the limits of technology, what is possible, with a human-centered perspective. She is author of the book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World, a cry for … [Read more...] about Technochauvinism vs. Digital Studies

The AI News Roundup provides you with our take on the coolest and most interesting Artificial Intelligence (AI) news and developments each month. Stay tuned and feel free to comment with any stories you think we missed!_________________________________________________________________Photo by Hush Naidoo on UnsplashAbout one in every eight men will be diagnosed with prostate … [Read more...] about AI News Roundup — January 2021

Trends versus predictionsData analysts use data at an aggregate level to find trends and provide recommendations to improve business performance. Data scientists will use data in machine learning models to predict an event typically at a customer level. Data analysts look at the past to find trends while data scientists use the past to make a prediction about the future.For … [Read more...] about Why Data Analysts Should Apply to Data Scientist Jobs

Source: PexelsWe recently spoke with Dynamo’s new cleantech member BrainBox AI to learn more about their innovative solution for the built environment, learn about the role that AI can play in decarbonization, and ask what frontiers they are tackling in 2021. Dynamo Community Director Natalia Sharova interviewed Sam Ramadori, President of BrainBox AI based in Montreal, … [Read more...] about AI Key to Sustainable and Smart Cities, Energy Grid of the Future

(See extensive review in The London Review of Books; February 4, 2021)For a ‘spook,’ he cast a long shadow.Those of us of a certain age remember when LSD appeared in the early ’60s, and there were stories about CIA involvement among other Cold War activities. This book traces the whole, sordid, farcical, hideous history on the US side (and I’m sure British, Russian, French, … [Read more...] about “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control” by Stephen Kinzer.

Why “Computational Cognition” might be more accurate, and how that mattersPhoto by Alex Knight on UnsplashAs I have observed in other essays, our human languages give us the power to communicate by means of discrete concepts, but that requires us to make sharp distinctions between those concepts, leaving us with disagreements over their boundaries. The ideas behind words like … [Read more...] about “Artificial Intelligence” is Misleading

An intuitive introduction to Game Theory and Nash EquilibriumMost of 2020 we were inside the house but once the lockdown was relaxed, my friends and I would meet for dinner or for coffee once a month or so. Where to meet was always a proverbial question. Both the other friends were in essential services so they had to go to their offices and I was the one on whom the planning … [Read more...] about Game Theory, Python, and Dinners