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Do you remember Liquid Paper? It was the original white correction fluid, invented in 1956 by a professional typist and used to cover typing and handwriting mistakes. Correction fluid quickly became a business necessity in a time when typewriters were the primary instrument of business communications. The fastest typing speed ever recorded, 212 words per minute, was achieved in 1946…

Losing customers is expensive. According to Forrester, it costs five times more to acquire new customers than to keep existing ones. Market Metrics says that the probability of selling to an existing customer is in the 60-70 percent range, but only in the 15-20 percent range for a new prospect. You can mitigate this problem. At DataRobot, we can apply…

Feature engineering is a critical part of the data science lifecycle that, more often than not, determines the success or failure of an AI project. At DataRobot, we know how hard it is to get started with AI, so we decided to take our automated feature engineering capabilities to the next level. DataRobot's Feature Discovery accelerates feature engineering by generating…

The past year has given us plenty to worry about, but I’ll add one more thing to the list: space junk. That’s because the skies far above us harbor countless bits of human-made objects. Although many are tiny, because they travel at 20,000 miles per hour, a collision with one of the more than 8,000 earth-orbiting satellites up there could…

DataRobot is pleased to announce that we are partnering with BCG (Boston Consulting Group) to drive innovation in the AI space and realize the full potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning.  BCG is a world leader in helping businesses meet new and complex challenges. Founded in 1963, BCG offers leading-edge management consulting, technology, and design, as well as corporate…

In biology, genetics, and bioengineering, Leroy Hood is a true giant. In 2015, Scientific American named him one of the ten most influential people in the field of biotechnology. Hood is credited with introducing the term systems biology and he advocates for what he refers to as P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory.  I met Lee, as he is…

Gone are the days when AI projects were cool science experiments, worked on exclusively by data scientists, far away from business world realities. A few years ago at a trade show, I asked a business manager who came to our booth if her employer hired any data scientists. She said they did have one data scientist, so I asked if…

If you’re a fan of science fiction, you might remember the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage where a team of doctors and their submarine are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured scientist. Their task: remove the blood clot and save his life. Profusa, a biomedical startup in California, takes the premise of Fantastic Voyage out…

AI Experience Worldwide, our free virtual conference, is just a few weeks away. Despite the uncertainty and challenges of the past year, DataRobot is seeing the positive impact that AI and machine learning are having on our world as enterprises accelerate their AI adoption. This year’s conference theme is “The Hunt for Transformational Growth.” We’ll be hosting more than 20…