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…

NHS is among healthcare organizations looking to leverage predictive analytics to manage current and future capacity needs to best serve their entire patient population.  Every Single Bed Matters, and Never More So than During a Pandemic Healthcare organizations are focused on providing the best possible care while managing resources effectively during the best of times. Part of that process is…

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…

According to a recent survey by NewVantage Partners, only 15% of leading enterprises have deployed AI into widespread production. Why so few? For organizations to overcome the hurdles of deploying and managing AI, they have to overcome several major hurdles around model deployment, management, and monitoring, in addition to bridging the gap between IT and data science teams. These are…

While the world is going through these turbulent times, AI remains a key focus for many organizations that are trying to solve emerging social and economic problems. ODSC has always been an exceptional place to highlight these solutions and share some of the thought leadership around AI and machine learning, which is why we are excited to be a part…