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Yearly Archives: 2017

Data and Government: The DATA Act – Making Federal Spending Transparent

By Dick Weisinger

The May of 2017, Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (the DATA Act) mandated that data be reported from federal agencies.  That data is collected and is then made available so that the public can begin to track government spending. The…

Security: Is Your Data Safe? Data Breaches Reach All Time High

By Dick Weisinger

Do you think your data is secure? Recent statistics may lead you to believe there is almost no point in trying to secure your data because if someone really want to see it it’s likely that there is a way.…

Deep Learning: Data Scientists Add Deep Learning to their Toolkits

By Dick Weisinger

Deep Learning is quickly becoming a key component in the tool bag for Data Scientists.  Deep Learning is a kind of Machine Learning that is being applied to applications like fraud detection, prodcut demand prediction, quality assurance, and predictive and…

Big Data and Manufacturing: Manufacturing Processes Go Digital

By Dick Weisinger

Almost every industry today is being transformed by digitalization.  Some industries are moving at a faster rate, but few have been left untouched.  Manufacturing is no exception. Jon Sobel, CEO at Sight Machine, said that “manufacturers are looking very systematically…

Business and Artificial Intelligence: Organizations See the Benefits, but Execution is Hard

By Dick Weisinger

Business ambitions for how to use artificial intelligence have not yet lived up to their expectations in terms of execution.  A report by Boston Consulting and MIT Sloan Management found that 85 percent of businesses think that using artificial intelligence…