OpenHouse.AI: Disrupting Real Estate through Transparency
How does technology alter an industry that is heavily regulated, with strong checks and balances and where information is heavily guarded? The real estate industry is comprised mainly of independent realtors, unified under brokerage houses and a nationwide real estate association. Within the confines of this oligopoly are rules to protect its players and ensure […]
YROO: The Future of AI-Assisted Shopping
Customer Centricity is the promise of AI. It seems to be the holy grail that continues to elude business. Marketing solutions and systems integrators are trying to build technology frameworks for Next Best Action that take real-time consumer context into consideration. They’re still falling short. But what if the only way to truly get to […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: x.ai, the personal scheduling assistant is disrupting a vital business function
Yes, the robots are coming. This eventuality is met with guarded excitement as everyone begins to understand a life where artificial intelligence is interwoven into aspects of our lives, subtlely at first, but proving its invaluable significance in this new world. We are clearly witnessing traditional models forced to acquiesce to emerging solutions – that […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: The Data Guild Tackles the World’s Toughest Challenges
Welcome Chris Diehl and David Gutelius, Co-Founders of The Data Guild, which create data driven solutions that tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges. As Data Science proliferates, the ability to marry disparate sources of information and uncover relationships among entities continues to surface new solutions that was not possible even a decade ago. Both Chris and […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: Understanding Human Psychology from Receptiviti
Understand people as people. This is not so hard a concept, except business has never traditionally operated this way. They see employees as workers. They look at consumers as potential buyers for their products. Rarely was the value to the consumer, or employee considered… until today. What I’ve witnessed recently within the advertising and even the HR space, […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: IBM Watson’s CTO Rob High Defines the Emerging Era of Cognitive Computing
As humans, it’s increasingly clear that we continuously upload our identities everyday. Those needs and propensities become quantified and contextualized. For companies like IBM Watson, understanding the human condition is important so technology can increasingly define patterns, learn and potentially predict outcomes that benefit both business and industry. We were pleased to host Rob High, […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: Understanding Sensemaking from HyLighter
This was an educational episode that covered the basis of a data approach called Sensemaking. David Lebow, Inventor and CEO of HyLighter was our esteemed guest. Below are the highlights from our discussion with David. For details on the podcast please listen here in its entirety: What is sensemaking in one sentence? While sensemaking has […]
Looking for Humanity in Data: Nitin Mayande of Tellagence and Understanding REAL Influence
The more we tread into this new data territory the more we get excited about the possibilities that data brings to business and to people. Susan Silver wrote an awesome post some time ago entitled, “Seeing the Humanity in Data“. Over the past decade, the rise of social and mobile data has forced us to […]