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We're still on the path of talking about legal, judicial, and general law with specific AI. Today we're going to talk a little bit about the work of having a machine understand some of this law. Clause extraction is often just looking for a way to segment certain documents, whatever clauses are you extracting from and it has many methods of extracting those. A clause is a self-contained paragraph...

Did you know companies can manage their legal documents using NLP and AI? So imagine that you have all kinds of PDF docs, some of which may have been scanned, so after that, you need to understand the scan itself, which takes time as well. There is a technology called Optical Character Recognition, OCR and that's often used to get that data in and turn it into printed documents, basically understa...

Today we're gonna look to talk a bit about the life cycle of AI projects and how they're undertaken, whether that's an internal or external project because they can both go well or poorly.  What we found was unless certain things are in place at your organization or with your people staff expertise, really experience, a lot of internal AI projects kind of go awry and don't exactly get to the...

 Today we're gonna focus on the interplay of ERP with AI and NLP, what 1000ML does and hopefully get to a place where we can understand how you can actually benefit from each other, and at the end how organizations can get a real return of investment. ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, and the main objective are cataloging the types of things that are in your organization.  The crucial t...

Today, we figured we would talk a little bit, but the considerations of when you are accountable or responsible for these projects themselves, and you want to ensure that you have the best return on investments. We touched last week about all the things of an executive's train of thought that would go into such a project in an NLP and AI. The executive isn't necessarily going to dig into the imple...

We've talked a lot about  AI, data science, NLP generally. And we've talked a little bit about some use cases, but today let's actually hit home with the payers of NLP. Today,  we're very specifically and deliberately going to be talking about how NLP affects your business from an executive's point of view. Regarding NLP, you get to a place where you understand that the content of langua...

Today we're going to talk to you guys about the myth that AI is here to kill you, and it's all going to result in this big singularity where AI gets so intelligent and takes over the world. It's also not here to take over the world, it's taking over a few tasks. It's taken over a lot of computation actually sees it as mainstream. Some of the earliest uses that companies and really companies and or...

When a company is looking to acquire a chatbot, they usually want the implementation to cost of minimum for a super bear bones chatbot, that's just capable of answering some questions, but that brings some problems such as the configuration, where you're going back and forth, trying to really discover what your intended audience wants to talk about and how to have all the question and answers. So...

The world of chatbots is kind of pervasive if you have a cell phone or almost any television service. A version of chatbots or chat technology that existed has been evolving more and more over time. So along with that came or after that came, natural language processing, which actually gives us the ability to turn language into more machine-readable and usable data, a bot can generate speech based...

Most companies, large or small, work according to written information from written documents that contain the details necessary for different operations. This wonderful amount of data has patterns and trends. It is possible to understand them in order to make an informed decision. The ability to not be tired and mess something up is huge, NLP can basically help take the guesswork out of your hands...

It has become universal for any kind of business to explore software development solutions that are effortlessly efficient yet unique, and gets the job done. Today, companies after companies are discovering no-code development and are embracing no-code platforms as a shortcut and expediting the process of their app development with little to no coding at all. Let's find more about Low-Code and No-...

Everyone has seen or heard of superintelligent AI, usually in the form of menacing robots.  Luckily, those are mostly great fantasies by imaginative writers rather than a reflection of current reality.  Today we venture into the things that AI can actually create.  From the lowly meme to writing code and possibly creating other AI, let's find out how intelligent AI can actually (cur...

So much of law is opinion based that you may think that there is no way that AI could do an adequate job of automating some of the work.  Fortunately, the legal and judiciary practices are very paper (document ) heavy, which lends itself superbly to NLP with AI.  Today we'll explore exactly how the use of AI and NLP has changed the legal world and what may be to come.

Recently Data for Good and 1000ml decided to combine their expertise to respond to a sustainable housing challenge driven by the Canadian government. The innovative solution was put together with Data for Good volunteers with the help of AI experts at 1000ml and was delivered in 6 weeks.

Natural Language Processing with the help of Machine Learning is the current win-win combination used to detect fraud and misinterpreted information. One of the biggest challenges of the free and anonymous internet that we have constant access to and basically drives our life is  “Fraud”.

How can you create efficient supply chain management? This is an open question for many suppliers, distributors, manufacturers, and retailers. Today, amid shifting supply chain market dynamics, changing ways of working, increasingly volatile demand, businesses are wondering how to make their supply chain less vulnerable to disruption. Machine learning holds the answer to many well-known as well as...

Contracting is a common activity, but it is one that few companies do efficiently or effectively. In fact, it has been estimated that inefficient contracting causes firms to lose between 5% to 40% of the value on a given deal. Recent technological developments like artificial intelligence (AI) are now helping companies overcome many of the challenges to contracting.

It seems as if the AI can be elusive when you don't have millions to spend on the type of talent that your small business would need to achieve big milestones.  Fortunately, there are a myriad of ways in which your smaller organization can use AI; from customer service right through to sophisticated Document AI and Contract Management Systems, and much much more.

Organizations are constantly looking for an edge to win out against competition and the current state-of-the-art is to use AI. Becoming an AI organization is not for the faint of heart; let us guide you as to how you could quickly, safely and easily get your organization into the age of AI.

That's right, All Things Data is back ! Of all the possible sources of business value that exist in your organization, the documents themselves tend to be the forgotten clue. With the amazing developments in machine learning, AI, and NLP, the time is now to gain a true understanding of your business through its documents, agreements, invoices, emails, intranets, etc...  Really, any content wh...

How much does it cost your team in hours and dollars when one of your data jobs fails and you're running a report with inaccurate data? How do you REALLY know if all your daily data has been loaded properly? How long would it take to audit and fix?  Simply put, what happens when your data breaks? This week on All Things Data we speak with Barr Moses the Founder and CEO of Monte Carlo.  T...

Clearbanc is making waves in the VC world with their novel funding model and use of machine learning. We thought it was interesting to speak to Susan Shu Chang  to see how data science is applied in the startup funding world. We'll also be chatting about her journey from an Economics/Math major to RL (reinforcement learning) through her passion for gaming and how time management and prioritiz...

If you're interested in how digitally native companies use marketing analytics at scale, this episode is for you. Peter Cheung, the  Director of Performance Marketing and Analytics at Mejuri stops by this week to talk about how Mejuri's marketing team uses data to continually grow their community of fiercely loyal customers during COVID-19 and beyond. Peter gives us a peek under the hood on w...

Sr Data Scientist at Tucows, Kenny Kwan joins us this week to chat about why it's best to be a generalist when you're starting your data career.  This week we'll cover why it's important to be able to get data yourself, what does it mean to have "communication skills" (hint, it involves cannolis ) and how to advocate for yourself and your projects.   Kenny takes us through his story from...

Sr Data Scientist at Shopify, Fernando Nogueira joins us this week to chat about what it's like to work a large data driven organization and his path to getting there. We go through what it's like to be the first at Freshbooks in their growth stage, ChatKit as the first data resource on a 5 person team and then transitioning to large data science group. Fernando gives us a peek under the hood at h...