If you’re not already doing AI, machine learning, or some form of advanced analytical project, research from McKinsey indicates that it’s now or never. Their conclusion, in a nutshell, is that laggards might never be able to catch up to the early adopters. If you’ve got AI or ML projects underway, the next question you can turn your attention to…

As a majority of counties have already detected COVID-19 cases, today (4/1/2020) is our last update. Our data science team is switching to other projects related to COVID-19. With the fight against COVID-19 spreading across the U.S. and the world, DataRobot understands it is essential that federal government entities convey accurate information to citizens, local governments, and healthcare providers. Towards…

You’ve heard about how AI and machine learning are transforming businesses across industries and around the world, but you don’t know how they’ve done it or even where to start. Figuring out the right problems to solve with machine learning can be a daunting exercise. Where are the good opportunities to leverage AI within your organization? What problems are best…

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…

This decade will be a momentous one for business, as AI stands to shape the landscape like no other technology before it has done. McKinsey estimates that: AI could potentially deliver additional global economic activity of around $13 trillion...about 1.2 percent additional GDP growth per year.  This growth will likely follow a familiar pattern: first-movers will invest heavily in AI…

We at DataRobot have been enjoying building models to predict various sporting events around the world. However, it’s been pointed out to me that we have shown a bias for covering North American events so far. Several colleagues in Europe asked when we were going to predict the world’s most popular game, football. So I enlisted Chloe and Akshay to…