Peter BruceCoronavirus — in Search of the Elusive DenominatorAnyone with internet access these days has their eyes on two constellations of data — the spread of the coronavirus, and the resulting…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Peter BruceSome applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence are recognizably impressive —…A bit of reflection quickly reveals the difficulty involved — suppose it is a common name, like Robert Smith? Or suppose the name matches…Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Peter BruceMatching AlgorithmsSome applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence are recognizably impressive — predicting future hospital readmission of…May 30, 2019May 30, 2019
Peter BruceA Deep Dive into Deep LearningOn Wednesday, March 27, the 2018 Turing Award in computing was given to Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their work on…Apr 19, 2019Apr 19, 2019
Peter BruceEthical Practice in Data MiningPrior to the advent of internet-connected devices, the largest source of big data was public interaction on the internet. Social media…Mar 28, 2019Mar 28, 2019
Peter BruceWisdom of the Crowd in Practice — part 2Estimating with StatisticiansMar 18, 2019Mar 18, 2019
Peter BruceWisdom of the Crowd in Practice — part 1Over 300 attendees stopped by our booth at JSM in Chicago and submitted their guesses to how much money was in the bowl. Erika Menius of…Mar 18, 2019Mar 18, 2019
Peter BruceStatistics.com — Customer SegmentationPosted on Mar 15, 2019 By: Peter BruceMar 18, 2019Mar 18, 2019
Peter BruceGood to Great?In 1994, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, former and current Stanford professors, published the best-seller Built to Last that described how…Mar 17, 2019Mar 17, 2019
Peter BruceAlaskan GenerosityPeople in Alaska are extraordinarily generous — that’s what a predictive model showed, when applied to a charitable organization’s donor…Mar 16, 2019Mar 16, 2019