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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
The Venue Menu
During our internship at Pandata, we have grown in our knowledge of data science, and gratefully so. Being able to use artificial intelligence and data science as a way of simplifying a problem you are[…]
The Power of One – Manufacturing Innovation and the IIoT
You’ve started collecting some simple data in your plant and the missed opportunities are both frustrating and exciting. Your mind is racing with improvement opportunities here, optimizations there, and a huge profit at the end[…]
PyCon 2019: A Little Something for Everyone
PyCon is the largest annual gathering of the Python user community, a group to which Pandata enthusiastically belongs. Several members of Team Panda were able to participate in this year’s PyCon, conveniently held in Cleveland.[…]