Sat.Nov 17, 2018 - Fri.Nov 23, 2018

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How Effective Is AI Crime Prediction? Evaluating Our London Crime Prediction Model

Dataconomy

Last year, we set up a prediction model on crime in London. We had established the model already, grounded in open data, but updated it to make predictions about 2017. We took the data provided by the police in the greater London area, and by enriching this data with Points. The post How Effective Is AI Crime Prediction? Evaluating Our London Crime Prediction Model appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Understanding text data with topic models

Depends on the Definition

This is the first post of my series about understanding text datasets. A lot of the current NLP progress is made in predictive performance. But in practice, you often want and need to know, what is going on in your dataset.

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The AI Revolution will not be Monopolized

Explosion

Who’s going to "win at AI"? There are now several large companies eager to claim that title. Others say that China will take over, leaving Europe and the US far behind. But short of true Artificial General Intelligence, there’s no reason to believe that machine learning or data science will have a single winner. Instead, AI will follow the same trajectory as other technologies for building software: lots of developers, a rich ecosystem, many failed projects and a few shining success stories.