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tdworld.com | January 24, 2020

For many utilities, this world is not far off. For PECO Energy Co., a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., this world is here now as a result of the Exelon Utilities Analytics Academy. This program is aimed at enabling employees to adopt digital skills, such as machine learning, operational analytics, visual storytelling and automated analysis. This ensures the people who are most familiar with the meaning behind the data also can conduct their own analysis, rather than having to rely on a central group ...

yourstory.com | January 23, 2020

As of June 2019, there were over 4.4 billion internet users in the world. This statistic represents an 83% percent increase in the number of people using the Internet in just five years! Right now, over 5 quintillion bytes of data are generated in a single day (that’s 5 followed by 18 zeros). Simply put, there’s an ocean of data out there, and AI is our best bet to analyze, understand, and innovate with it. It’s no surprise, therefore, that when it comes to the tech landscape a...

searchenginejournal.com | January 21, 2020

Spammers are taking advantage of Google Rich Results algorithms in order to place content at the top of Google search. Spammers are taking advantage of machine learning technologies to automatically create video content from web pages and vice versa. The same technology can be used to create text content from podcasts and podcast content from web pages.This isn’t theory, it’s currently live on Google. Can Google keep up with machine learning spam? I first noticed the text...

centralbanking.com | January 15, 2020

The Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics (IFC) is to press ahead with its work on statistical issues posed by fintech and update its work on big data. The IFC’s 2019 annual report said it had investigated a host of issues in 2019, including big-data analysis and artificial intelligence, data governance frameworks, micro-macro data integration and financial accounts. A particular area of interest has been fintech. In 2018, the IFC part of the Bank for International Settlements...