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Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” – Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Facebook Hammerbacher’s Lament Are we fated to suffer Hammerbacher’s Lament, with our best minds, and our best data, solely serving the gods of commerce? What of serving mankind’s existential needs in an area as fundamental…
Read MoreWhy You Should Learn Data-X
This semester, The Sutardja Center created a new course, Data-X, which allowed students to team up to tackle technically complex problems. In the course, students identified real-world problems, collected data, and created applications to find solutions. Click on the picture below to check out this year’s Data-X course! Data-X was taught by Ikhlaq Sidhu…
Read MoreEngineered Influence: Weak Data, Machine Learning & Behavioral Economics
This article is will be published in the 2017 Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s annual journal AIR (Applied Innovation Review) in June 2017. You can see the 2016 version here. Shomit Ghose is a UC Berkeley alum and mentor, venture capitalist, and partner at ONSET ventures. Cognitive Irredentists Arise! A dystopian world: sentient machines…
Read MoreData-X: An Experimental Course Model that is Working
I’d like to start by congratulating all the teams that participated in our first Data-X course this spring. We just watched the final presentations, and it has been a great experience. Three months ago, we were just introducing the basic frameworks. And now, by the end of the semester, the projects have included running code…
Read MoreAn Update on Big Data Trends in 2017
2016 was a very eventful year for the ever-growing world of big data, with more and more organizations using storage and processing methods that have developed in the field to extract more value from their business through data of all forms and sizes. In 2017, there is an expectation that many systems that support both…
Read MoreIs Your Data Strategy Working Hard Enough?
Every firm is under pressure to adapt and reinvent, and innovative firms know how to do this. Amazon started by selling retail products over the Internet, but later transformed to offer IT Cloud services as Amazon Web Services. Apple is a similar case — once only a computer company, it reinvented itself into a digital…
Read MoreData Science and Transnational Security Collider Kickoff Event
With terrorist attacks growing in size and frequency around the world, more organizations are trying to develop tools and technologies to stop the financing of terrorism. Terrorist Financing is the process by which terrorists fund their operations in order to perform their terrorist attacks. They need financial support to carry out their planned activities. ACAMS explains…
Read MoreData-X: A New Course
Starting in Spring 2017, Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu will offer a new special topics course named Data-X. The course supports the IEOR department’s focus in data-driven systems and analytics; and it covers the tools and skills that are being used to reinvent today’s applications and enterprises. Data-X: A Course on Data, Systems and Signals is a technical…
Read MoreBig Data in Retail Collider
Drones skyrocketing through the sky, delivering us packages that we have not even ordered yet—a dream of how technology, Big Data and analytics will influence the retail landscape in the near future. But fantasy aside, the way we buy and sell is evolving rapidly. Retailers are learning how to embrace a data-first strategy to understand…
Read MoreBig Data Solutions for Small Firm
Big Data has been leveraged by a number of large firms to gain a competitive advantage in the retail industry – the likes of Macy’s, Amazon, reveal that big data has been crucial to helping them increase sales by as much as 10%. Kroger CEO David Dilon refers to big data as his ‘secret weapon.’…
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