Across the retail sector, companies face heightened challenges in the form of the empowered consumer. Consumers expect more information that is tailored to them about what to buy and where to buy it, as well as in-store safety during the pandemic, online shipment, and information on where the best deals are. With the ubiquity of smartphones and widespread access to…

As the effects of social distancing continue to impact every industry, the retail, sports, and gaming industries are no exception. Supply chains are being redefined. Demand forecasting is more volatile than ever. Companies are moving online, and there is triage in decisions from distribution center planning to product repricing. In parts one and two of this series, we discussed how…

We founded Zeff.ai with a mission to bring automated machine learning to teams working on the naturally complex datasets that arise from building software products and services, including datasets with images, audio, and unstructured data. Initially, we were just excited to see applied deep learning helping a variety of businesses. That excitement grew into an obsession to help as many…

As the world continues to face the global COVID-19 pandemic, AI technology is helping companies minimize disruption with AI-driven forecasting and strategy. In part 1 of this series, we discussed how the healthcare and insurance industries can become more resilient and adapt to their new reality. In this article, we cover how banking, FinTech, and financial markets can mitigate some…

For Symphony Care Network, typical payment models didn’t make sense for either the patients or the company. The type of patients they see at their facilities are post-acute patients, typically having recently had some type of orthopedic or cardiac surgery who are looking to stay for up to two weeks for rehabilitation.  Given their unique model and to improve both…

The COVID-19 outbreak is causing complex repercussions as it spreads at unprecedented speed, overwhelming healthcare systems globally and affecting all other industries. The global health emergency coupled with an oil price war has triggered an economic downturn. Companies, customers, suppliers, and employees are trying to cope with a situation nobody was prepared for, including the complete cessation of activity in…

Current Situation: A Double Black Swan in Supply and Demand Amidst the global economic turmoil caused by COVID-19, few industries have been hit as hard as the upstream oil and gas industry. Operators have been knocked off course by the double-black swan events of rapidly eroding demand and a glut of supply. The global economic slowdown will have a direct…

May You Live In Unprecedented Times 2020’s word of the year is likely to be “unprecedented” — which, from a data science perspective, might make us rather nervous.  Machine learning is, after all, the art and science of predicting outcomes of incoming events based on historical data. In a period without precedent, doesn’t this make our historical training data irrelevant? And…

Machine learning, and especially deep learning, has become increasingly more accurate in the past few years. This has improved our lives in ways we couldn't imagine just a few years ago, but we're far from the end of this AI revolution. Cars are driving themselves, x-ray photos are being analyzed automatically, and in this pandemic age, machine learning is being…