If you’re a commercial insurer, how do you evaluate your claims personnel? How do those evaluations impact your decisions on how to deploy individual adjusters? Typically, adjusters are assigned by pre-determined categories such as the line of business, size of the account, or region. Within these categories, adjuster performance is measured by various metrics, including closed-claims ratio, average time to…

In a recent webinar, Paxata's Senior Product Marketing Manager Mike White and I demonstrated Paxata's unique ability to eliminate the most common bottleneck in AI and machine learning. 80 percent of time spent on AI and machine learning efforts is wasted exploring, combining, and shaping data. Three critical but easily overcome obstacles create that problem, and Paxata makes quick work…

For the fourth year in a row, we’ve been named one of the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence startups by CB Insights for our pioneering approach to democratizing enterprise AI. CB Insights’ AI 100 list recognizes the most promising and impressive private AI companies worldwide. The AI field is rapidly expanding – Crunchbase currently lists more than 13,000 companies who…

HIMSS20 is around the corner and, like most, I am contemplating the conversations I will have there and am reflecting on the impact of AI on the future of healthcare. While top trends shaping the healthcare industry include consumerism, expanding value-based care programs, increasing volumes of previously unavailable data, and a continued shortage of healthcare professionals, I don’t consider AI…

Deeper integration between DataRobot and Snowflake to help customers go from data to value even faster In late 2018, DataRobot and Snowflake partnered to enable DataRobot users to ingest data from Snowflake’s cloud-based data platform in order to quickly scale and leverage DataRobot’s leading machine learning capabilities. While this was a great first step, we knew that what would be…

Given the interest in and dynamic nature of the artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and machine learning market, we believe that Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms has become one of the most anticipated pieces of research in our industry. Our customers have told us for years that we’re innovating faster than anyone else in the…

Predictive models learn patterns in training data and use that information to predict target values for new data. There are two data sets at play in this process, the training data and the scoring or inference data. The model will work well in production (i.e., produce accurate predictions in line with expectations) when the new inference data is similar to…

I’m starting the decade with a new adventure as DataRobot’s President and COO. “Don’t count the days; make the days count.” - Muhammad Ali Getty Images A few months back, I woke up early to find myself at a crossroads. I had recently left my job at AppDynamics and was weighing the next step in my career as I raced…

This blog is meant to be a fun and unique take on predicting Best Picture for the 92nd Academy Awards. The 92nd Academy Awards (Oscars) takes place on Sunday, February 9, 2020. This is a big night for the film industry as the awards signify international recognition of excellence for actors, directors, writers, designers, and much more. One of the…