Enterprise Artificial Intelligence: Should you build or buy?
Looking at the race to build vs. buy when ramping up internal organization AI/ML capabilities: Anecdotally, I have seen many organizations underestimate how much more difficult it is to build high performing AI/ML running in production vs. the traditional software development process. This is in…
Visualizing AI’s Hurricane of Uncertainty
This past weekend, data visualization, and specifically data visualization around depicting uncertainty, got a bit of national attention. As someone who designs with data and uncertainty, this was very exciting to me (not to mention it gave me a way to talk to my family…
Webcast Replay: The End of Rules – Break Your Supply Chain Free with AI
This week we’re presenting at the Gartner Supply Chain Conference alongside one of our customers, a global cosmetics brand. We’ll be discussing how we’ve partnered to actively capture millions in lost sales. That’s just one example of our AI-driven successes. On May 9th, this webinar…
Noodler Library: 3 Books About AI for Executives
As an executive you know time is precious. When you’re reading about AI, you want to skip the “AI-washed” hype and get to the heart of solving your challenges. I’ve compiled a list of books I think will help you break through the clutter, quickly…
Noodle Notes: AI for Everyone
Certain types of AI are becoming more accessible to the public, thanks to the efforts of companies like Google and Baidu. This week we’re reading about the ways these companies are bringing better data to the general public. First up: Google’s new data set search…
You ask, Noodle answers: What makes a great data science problem?
Articles about what makes a great data scientist are everywhere. Articles about what makes a great problem for a data scientist to solve… well, they are harder to find. That’s OK – Noodle has a great team of data scientists and we sat down with…
Don’t believe the anti-hype, either. AI will change many things, but not all.
Over the weekend, Vivek Wadhwa published a perspective in the Washington Post under the headline “Don’t believe the hype” about AI. I sat down, prepared to agree on everything, because that’s an angle I can usually rally behind. However, with every new sentence, I realized…
Don’t Fall for the Alexa / Siri Head Fake
If you are looking for the right place to experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) in your company, I’ll save you some time: ignore Alexa and Siri. They are very well-executed plays, but they will lead you straight into an AI abyss. To be sure, AI,…
Is the Answer to Data Bias More Data?
This will come as no surprise, but human beings aren’t very rational. Ingrained cognitive biases like recency bias, confirmation bias and the bandwagon effect can create reasoning errors that prevent us from seeing the world with complete clarity. And when we make decisions based on…
