We interfere with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as part of our daily life. From movie recommendations on Netflix, advertisement targeting on YouTube, biometric facial recognition to much more. AI and ML accumulate a lot of ‘buzz’ and creates excitement but how do you choose the right project? The one that will succeed […]
The current coronavirus pandemic situation has created a sudden change in our everyday lives that was unforeseen just a few months ago. As individuals adjust to the “new normal,” businesses should also take a moment to reassess their situation. Suddenly, the market is upside down, your team is working remotely, and a good portion of […]
Our goal is to learn about Naïve Bayes and apply it to a real-world problem, spam detection. Why Naïve Bayes? Consider building an email spam-filter using machine learning. You would like to classify messages according to whether they are unsolicited commercial (spam), or non-spam (ham). Classifying spam vs. ham is one example of a broader set of problems called text […]
We recently chose to have a focus on offering productized Sales Operation consulting solutions. We got our first client and within four months, we reduced their sales team cost by 20% and added $6MM to their projected revenue. Our machine-learning-powered solution delivered more than 4MM sales leads with verified contact information to them and cleaned 97% of the duplicates in their Salesforce CRM. That helped […]
What do you think of sales? How do you feel about a salesperson? If your thoughts are not exactly positive, you’re not alone. , the author of To Sell is Human (I recommend you to read it!), asked his readers “when you think of sales or selling, what is the first word that comes to mind?” […]
We asked one of our clients, a well respected and rapidly growing company in the Vancouver Sales Vertical what impact our AI engine had on their Sales Operations. They told us that within four months we had reduced their sales team cost by 20% while at the same time adding more than $6 million to their […]
We recently helped a client to clean up their Salesforce CRM. First, we made our proprietary solution to find all of the duplicate records that would pass the client’s criteria and then had to use Salesforce native merge functionality to remove the duplicates. By doing the deduplication process, we helped them save their Sales Reps time […]
If you’re here, you definitely have heard about data science and you might wonder what data scientists really do? There is no good answer to this question! Data science is a relatively new field that was coined in 2008 by D.J. Patil, and Jeff Hammerbacher, then the respective leads of data and analytics efforts at […]
“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” — John Naisbitt. The Era of Big Data We have entered the era of big data. For example, there are about 60 trillion web pages; 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, amounting to 10 years of content every day; the genomes of 10000s of people, each of which has […]
The first time I felt the gap was during my PhD years when one of my close friends was looking for a job. He is a smart guy with great talent and a PhD in computational physics from a top university, UBC. He connected with many great companies whom really needed his expertise and had 5 successful interviews […]