Have you ever thought about all the data your business is capturing on a hourly, daily or weekly basis? It is probably incomprehensible in light of the channels and volume of information captured 24/7.
The overall, high-level purpose of mining all this structured and unstructured data from your CRM, sales, marketing and advertising channels and most recently IoT devices is to garner insights into your customers, competitors and potential market trends.
It is not humanly possible to categorize and find insights from these oceans of data quickly enough so that the information is relevant.
With all that data, the teams of data analysts that companies rely on today to interpret the data simply can’t keep pace with the volume.
The real challenge is merging all the analysis together to get a 360-degree contextual picture of your customers, potential purchases and market trends.
Apple’s Steve Jobs once said during an interview,
“I remember reading an article when I was about twelve years old. I think it might have been Scientific American, where they measured the efficiency of locomotion for all these species on planet earth. How many kilocalories did they expend to get from point A to point B? And the condor won, came in at the top of the list, surpassed everything else. And humans came in about a third of the way down the list, which was not such a great showing for the crown of creation. But somebody there had the imagination to test the efficiency of a human riding a bicycle. A human riding a bicycle blew away the condor all the way off the top of the list. And it made a really big impression on me that we humans are tool builders. And that we can fashion tools that amplify these inherent abilities that we have to spectacular magnitudes. And so for me, a computer has always been a bicycle of the mind. Something that takes us far beyond our inherent abilities.”
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new bicycle bridging the virtual world with the physical and big data is the fuel and lifeblood of AI.
With recent advancements in computer processing, data storage, and better machine-learning algorithms it is possible to ingest and analyze more data than ever before. At the same time, there is a connectivity boom as more and more devices and apps connect to the Internet producing even more data.
The Economist says the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
“As devices from watches to cars connect to the internet, the volume is increasing: some estimate that a self-driving car will generate 100 gigabytes
per second. Meanwhile, artificial-intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning extract more value from data. Algorithms can predict when a customer is ready to buy, a jet-engine needs servicing or a person is at risk of a disease. Industrial giants such as GE and Siemens now sell themselves as data firms.”
The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 44 zettabytes will be generated by 2020 (A zettabyte is 1 trillion gigabytes).
Trends that will shape Big Data and AI in 2017
TechRepublic, a resource for IT decision makers, says there are five major big data trends to watch in 2017.
No matter what you do, AI will eventually touch every aspect of your life. AI, machine learning and deep learning are making big impacts on business and your personal life from simple chatbots to self-driving cars.
Many people use these terms interchangeably, but they are different.
Examples are computer chess and most chatbots where the AI is programmed to ONLY play chess or answer a specific subset of questions like customer support issues or a back-to-school sale.
ML understands speech and can make predictions based on the data it analyzes.
Google’s DeepMind AlphGo used Dl to beat 18-time Go world champion Lee Sedol in 2016. AlphaGo studied 30 million human moves in Go and learned by playing against itself.
Google Translations can now teach itself to translate languages it doesn’t know using its DL Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT) system. The new DL improves translation quality, and enables “Zero-Shot Translation” — translation between language pairs never seen explicitly by the system.
If you vote for Trump and his MAGA GOP members you may indirectly start World War III.
If Trump and his MAGA GOP take control of our Congress, they will cut off support for Ukraine. They already cut support on the advice of Trump when the Congress was ready to approve the spending bill with support for Ukraine.
What will happen next?
said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “This is supposed to be the party of conservative principles, of tradition, of respect for customs and rules that make society governable.
“The idea that the law does not apply to Republicans is something that has now become part of the mainstream of the Republican party. We see it in terms of the approach to elections. We see it in terms of the treatment of immigrants. Some of the actions with regard to abortion may approach that level. The Republican party appears to consider the law and the constitution to be optional and to have lost legitimacy.”
From The Guardian
Republicans’ lawless leaders at odds with midterm law and order message | Republicans | The Guardian
If you vote Republican you are supporting:
– 19 GOP red states have pending laws suppressing voter’s ability to vote. Historically, dictators and Fascists have suppressed votes to stay in power.
– The GOP has come out in support of QAnon, The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys
– You may lose a loved one, a relative or a friend in a train crash, a bridge collapse or a plane crash as Republicans strip funds from President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
– The Texas abortion ban if left to stand will be passed in several other GOP states. Idaho will pass an anti-abortion law based on the Texas law. 16 states have “trigger” abortion ban laws.
by the US Supreme Court.
https://cnn.it/3RaW1zm
https://nyti.ms/3IcANNo
With the recent Supreme Court banning EPA authority from polluters
https://bit.ly/3IfQ1Bf
on Gun Purchases – will never get passed.
Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional plea to improve gun purchase background checks
https://cnn.it/3AnRweO
– will never go up leaving 18 states still paying $7.25 an hour.
– the last thing America needs are conservative leaders, especially some Republicans who want to keep America from progressing. The last thing America needs is backward-thinking leaders in the 21st Century.
– Republicans have turned to cheating to stay in power or to get back into power…and nothing is getting done by them for the American people.
The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
and everything America stands for: Truth, Justice and Liberty for all? Look what is happening in Ukraine.
*Of course, not all Republicans are like those described above. Here is a list of those who should stay in office.
House of Representatives – those who voted to impeach the former president
Senate – The Republicans who voted to convict the former president after impeachment:
YOUR VOTE COUNTS. It’s a lie to think otherwise.
Paid for by Jake Stone for American Democracy
VOTE like your freedom depended on it…because it does.
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