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Caroline S Payne1 October 2018 1

Generalists vs. specialists in the AI era

The distinction between specialists and generalists has been around for a long time, though not necessarily referring to people. For example, did you know that there is a species of birds that only lives in the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand? The king shag is only known to breed at

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Analytics

Claudio Broggio28 September 2018 2

6 innovator profiles that know how to use analytics to drive change

Ever since I was a child, I have loved the Warner Bros. cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. I was fascinated by their different characters, and how they interacted, and the way that the storylines were both the same and different. Of course, some

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Analytics

Digitisation, transformation and man/machine partnership: scaling innovation

Andreas Gödde26 September 2018 0

Digitisation, transformation and man/machine partnership: scaling innovation

I recently spoke to Thomas Gartzen, managing director of the European 4.0 Transformation Center. As well as talking about innovation labs in general, we also spoke about managing change and introducing an analytical approach to organisations. Thomas, do you think we can say that all companies are now software companies?

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Analytics | Internet of Things

Hidden Insights: Scratching the surface: the case for analytics on edge

Gerhard Altmann26 September 2018 0

Scratching the surface: the case for analytics on edge

Industrial production is choking on data. It comes from everywhere: production lines, sensors, devices, call centers and all kinds of maintenance reports. It is tempting to just discard it, but we all know that it would be so valuable if only you could extract information from it! The question, however,

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Manufacturing

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence

Massimiliano Cea26 September 2018 1

Accelerating acceptance of AI in health care

There seems to be huge concerns about how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect us all, especially replacing human jobs. There is talk about regulation, ethics and requiring companies to retrain those made redundant by algorithms. All this talk, however, has centred on the downsides of AI. What about the benefits?

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Health Care

Analytics

Federica Ballerini25 September 2018 0

Implementing the Insurance Distribution Directive: unleashing analytics to enhance customer protection

The EU’s new Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) comes into force in October this year, and will regulate how insurance products are designed and sold across the EU. The thinking behind the directive is both to provide fairer competition in the market place and to improve the protection available to customers.

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Insurance

Analytics | Internet of Things

Adriaan Van Horenbeek25 September 2018 0

Vision and data analytics both required to unlock business value from IoT

Business analytics and IoT are closely intertwined, perhaps even two sides of the same coin. When used together, they open the door to an extensive range of optimisation options in various sectors, from health care to agriculture and manufacturing. Many companies, however, have found that adding value is harder than

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Energy & Utilities | Manufacturing

Analytics | Learn SAS | Students & Educators

Hidden Insights: Securing the future: Piloting data science qualifications

Elisabeth Versailles24 September 2018 0

Securing the future: Piloting data science qualifications

There is a question, almost philosophical in its nature, about who should be responsible for developing new skills in the workforce. In the days when employees expected to have a job for life, and stay with the same employer for 40 years, it made sense that employers paid, and often

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Education

Analytics

Hidden Insights: How to gain an edge in fighting crime and preventing anti-social behaviour

Andy Davies21 September 2018 0

How to gain an edge in fighting crime and preventing anti-social behaviour

As someone who worked in the police force for many years, I know just how important each small piece of evidence can be in securing a conviction. So in times of tightening budgets, imagine how useful it could be to have technology that helps predict when or where crimes will

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Government

Analytics

Sirpa Penttinen20 September 2018 0

Five analytics learning opportunities this October in Barcelona

As Industry 4.0 fires on all cylinders, technology is revolutionizing every aspect of nearly every industry. Powered by advanced analytics and ideas that once seemed impossible – cloud computing, robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT) – the world as we know it is undergoing its greatest changes

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