Late last year, when my trusty Altima of over 15 years started needing coolant refills more often than gas refills, I knew it was finally time to start looking for a new car. While many[…]
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How Does Spotify Know What Music I Might Like? Demystifying Recommender Systems Part II
In an earlier blog, we discussed some of the basic concepts behind recommender systems and what they do. This time let’s delve a little deeper into how recommender systems work. First we need to start[…]
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“An AI Walks into a Bar” – Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Humor
“If the mushroom was such a fungi, why didn’t they have the party at his house?” “Because there wasn’t much-room.” –Dad Joke Generator We all know a bad joke when we hear it. Sometimes one[…]
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From Prototype to Production – Coding Best Practices
We live in an era of unprecedented automation and rapidly expanding data. In 2019 alone, the internet generated 2.5 billion bytes of data every day, but only about .5% of that data was meaningfully analyzed! This data deluge, combined with the want to derive[…]
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How Social Science & the Humanities + Data Science = More Ethical AI
As practitioners and consumers of data science, how do we make ethical decisions when confronted with thorny dilemmas in artificial intelligence (AI)? How do we even recognize when those dilemmas emerge before they become public[…]
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Netflix and Learn: Demystifying Recommender Systems
This article is Part 1 in a quarterly series that sets out to demystify artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques that are common in everyday life, and in the news. At Pandata, we firmly believe[…]
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HolidAI Greetings – Making Spirits…Weird
Back by popular demand – our HolidAI Greeting Card Generator has a fresh look, along with updated images and messages for the 2019 holiday season! And to be honest, it’s gotten even weirder. Machine learning[…]
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The Difficulty in Defining Artificial Intelligence
AI is one of the most widely talked about yet poorly understood terms in organizations. While over 50% of organizations considered AI a priority in 2019, 77% of organizations are failing to successfully adopt AI-enabled[…]
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Setting the Foundation for Marketing Success by Getting Back to the Basics
Whether you are a business owner wading through the sea of marketing tools or the lone marketer in an organization trying to keep up, there are some tried and true basics to set the foundation[…]
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AI as the Artist’s Muse
What happens when a classically trained painter and an A.I. muse come together to create a work of art? Chris Peters, a Los Angeles-based artist, filmmaker, and former software engineer, began to find out with[…]
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