Category: Week4

How to become a president using Big Data

Companies are drowning in information on a day-to-day basis, sometimes they have so much data that they do not have the time, the money, the human resources or even the data-processing application software to store and analyze the data in their possession.   That is where big data comes in. Big data refers to large… Read more How to become a president using Big Data

The role of data in investing...

In the early 1990’s Eugene Fama and Kenneth French introduced the Fama-French three-factor model. They posited that asset returns could be explained through the use of three factors; a size variable, a value variable and a systematic risk variable. At the time the model was considered a breakthrough, certainly a marked improvement on the ubiquitous… Read more The role of data in investing...

Moderated AI: Humans supplementing AI, and not the other way round

Humans assist AI with filtering and with training subjective topics, such as hate speech in the form of sarcastic comments. It is not so much AI assisting humans, but sustaining a reciprocal mutualistic relationship. Case Study: Facebook’s Filters Facebook employs thousands of human content moderators and struck partnerships with human fact-checking organizations, as A.I. alone… Read more Moderated AI: Humans supplementing AI, and not the other way round

From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

Ever since web 1.0, 30 years of human efforts have been made to guard the security of WWW. Together with the technology breakthroughs like online banking, cloud computing and IoT, cyber attack also diverges into multiple directions. As Steve Herrod, Managing Director of General Catalyst and Ex-CTO of VMWare, mentioned last week, those attacks widely… Read more From Cyber to BlockChain, How Can Security Carry On

THE CURIOUS CASE OF CYBERSECURITY

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Cybersecurity ventures saw longer time-to-exits and lower multiples The worsening supply-demand gap for cybersecurity professionals is an economics puzzle Cybersecurity’s prevention-centric value proposition is a tough sell (and the old FUD sales pitch is not helping!) Cyber Picks: Value or Value “Traps”? Someone asked me the other day, “what is… Read more THE CURIOUS CASE OF CYBERSECURITY

Finding a CTO with the right chops

Over the last few years, I have had multiple friends and colleagues tell me how difficult it is to find capable software and technology architects to run the technical aspects of their businesses. While I have taken their word, Suja Viswesan’s lecture from LinkedIn—along with the other lectures and research I have performed while in this… Read more Finding a CTO with the right chops

Decoding Big Data and why it is important.

Big Data is evolving, its the force behind many ongoing waves of digital transformation, including AI, data science and the IoT. This is largely due to the rise of technology and its capacity of capturing information from the real world, and converting it to digital data. [3] We generate data whenever we go online, leaving… Read more Decoding Big Data and why it is important.

Should data analytics stay out of the creative arts?

Disclaimer: my blog post this week will have a more personal tone than I would normally use for an assignment. This post uses music as a proxy for other creative fields – I think the general logic here applies to visual arts, fashion, and even food and beverage, among others. Data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine… Read more Should data analytics stay out of the creative arts?

Big Data and Business

The presentation form Srijan Kumar (Stanford)  gave insights on the components of Big Data and data mining. Describing Big Data as the combination of: Machine Learning Statistics Artificial Intelligence Databases is a great way to look at it. I would like to add the notion that we can think of Artificial Intelligence as the combination… Read more Big Data and Business

Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things

With hackers constantly reinventing themselves (think: the evolution of Nigerian price scams into specific, targeted methods including ransomware), there is a pressing need for cybersecurity efforts to be shored up and reinforced.   Breaches can be costly too – a study by the Ponemon Institute sponsored by IBM estimated that the average cost of one… Read more Cybersecurity and the Internet of Things