AI and Big Data
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Analysing Adobe Firefly at the Adobe Summit 2023
Photoshop Beta now includes Adobe Firefly AI art functions. These enable image manipulation by using artificial intelligence. Image-generating AIs have been at the center of discussions for quite some time, and we’ve been covering this topic on Visionary Marketing since the beginning of the year, and have been practicing it…
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Marriott’s three principles for achieving outstanding data-driven CX at scale
What are the main guiding principles for achieving outstanding data-driven CX (customer experience) at scale. Today at Adobe summit 2022, I attended a great presentation by Susan Bloomberg, VP of personalization and product performance at Marriott International. She described herself as “a maths nerd as [she] started a career in tech…
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When video interviewing gives market research a new dimension
Video interviewing can enhance market research greatly and even take it into a new dimension, including sentiment analysis. To find out why and how, I have interviewed Carl Wong, the CEO and Co-Founder of LivingLens who spoke to me from Liverpool. Carl talked to me about some of the innovative…
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Is augmented intelligence the future of artificial intelligence?
Is augmented intelligence the future of artificial intelligence? Such is Luc Julia’s opinion, who invites us to forget about the hackneyed ‘artificial intelligence’ monicker, the origin of which he traces back to the 17th century. This was the gist of his speech at the 5th edition of the MaddyKeynote (an event organized…
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Open data European market: beyond maturity and towards consolidation
What is the state of open data in Europe? I wondered. To answer that question, I went to interview top open data expert, Jean-Marc Lazard, founder of Opendatasoft. Here are a few reflections derived from my reading of the state of play of European open data in 2019 published by the…
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Natural Language Processing Transcription for Journalists
I have been a Natural Language Processing (NLP) fiend for a long time. I havreshapede indeed used speech-to-text to write books and blog posts for close to 20 years. I discovered it once while visiting my GP and realising that he was using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to dictate to this computer.…
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AI : Europe Could Be Wiped Off The Map according to Cedric O
What is the state of AI in Europe seen from above? I attended the AI keynote of French secretary of State for digital Cedric O at the opening of the AI Paris 2019 conference, of which Visionary Marketing is a media partner. Thus, I listened carefully to his presentation, which covered…
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How to face the human challenges brought by AI? – Christian Clot
Facing the challenges of AI – Christian Clot Christian Clot is an extraordinary character. Both a researcher and an explorer, he spent 4 times 30 days in the most extreme places on the planet. I saw his videos and testimonies and was much impressed. How you could get out of…
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Data Ethics: data science must not be in the sole hands of experts
A great number of universities of the world propose courses about data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Isn’t it time they added data ethics on the agenda, at a time when tech giants like Facebook and Google — to name a few — have become familiar targets for the…
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Machine Learning: Why businesses should use it
Innovation in machine learning (ML) offers many benefits to business data analytics. Businesses are able to benefit from ML because the algorithms that are used make accurate, data-informed choices. According to Forbes, by the year 2020, the Internet will have an estimated 1.7 megabytes of newly created data per second…
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Fashion Photography: When Computers Turns Mannequins into Models
The world of fashion photography for e-commerce is facing a problem: consumers. They are looking for more visuals (about ten in the Chinese market, and around five in Europe) to reassure themselves about the products they are about to purchase. The problem is that these visuals are expensive. People and…
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Infographic: The path to Big Data – Challenges and Opportunities
The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Online MBA program sent me this infographic entitled “Data Mining and Decision Support Systems“, in which the university describes big data and data mining as the new way of carrying out market research. As a matter of fact, data mining isn’t new – I…
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