Analytic thinking has become a necessary skill for almost everyone working in a business environment. Although data scientists and analysts may be more intimately involved in handling and manipulating data, managers, executives, and other business leaders will be the ones making decisions based on a...

DevOps Engineers are delighted when they find a product or service that fits in with their already refined CI/CD processes. When we choose a new pipeline tool, engineers depend on a number of factors. Ease of use, repeatable processes, and a solid support model are key. Choosing a continuous integration...

What is multiclass classification?  Multiclass classification is a classification task that consists of more than two classes, (ie. using a model to identify animal types in images from an encyclopedia). In multiclass classification, a sample can only have one class (ie. an elephant is only an elephant;...

Machine learning is providing enterprise-level solutions and careers for many companies. It is quite a broad field, however, and comprises many subcategories and countless uses. So what exactly is machine learning, how and why is it used, and what companies are using it? Let’s dive into those questions...

As more organizations incorporate AI and machine learning in to their processes, data scientists and analysts must continue to learn about how these techniques solve business problems. Previously on this blog we discussed how particular algorithms may be more appropriate for particular research questions...

Types of machine learning Machine learning comes in three basic types: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Reinforcement learning follows a different paradigm from the other two, so we’ll leave it for another post.  The most common form of machine learning, and the most prototypical,...

Demand forecasting is a common business practice for optimizing workflow in inventory, but it  actually has use cases across all industries even if it isn’t immediately clear. Let’s walk through how demand forecasting can be used and explore its value.    What is demand forecasting? Demand forecasting...

Machine learning is a vast field, composed of many model types, subsets, and use cases. In our forthcoming 2020 State of Enterpriser Machine Learning report, we dig into the use cases that are used most often by businesses today, but as there are new advances made in ML every day, there are also advances...

Read it Reflects data only from survey Group B. Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer. In the last 12 months, there have been numerous developments in machine learning (ML) tools, applications, and hardware. Google’s TPUs are in their third generation, the AWS Inferentia chip is a...

Sentiment analysis invites us to consider the sentence, You’re so smart! and discern what’s behind it. It sounds like quite a compliment, right? Clearly the speaker is raining praise on someone with next-level intelligence. However, consider the same sentence in the following context. Wow,...