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12 Mar

How Geo-Targeting, Based On Hyper-Local Data Can Transform Businesses

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We are already living in a world that is driven by data, and data is ubiquitous. The technological advancements in the past few decades have given rise to new devices that are capable of interconnectivity and data generation —  something that revolutionised the shared world of internet. Today data is an omnipresent force, which serves…

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11 Mar

Flight Ticket Price Prediction Hackathon: Use These Resources To Crack Our MachineHack Data Science Challenge

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Flight ticket prices are difficult to guess; today we may see a price, but check out the price of the same flight tomorrow, it will be a different story. MachineHack’s latest hackathon gives data science enthusiasts, especially who are starting their data science journey, a chance to learn by trying to predict the prices for…

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06 Mar

Why Data Centre Modernization Is Crucial For Implementing An Advanced Analytics & AI Strategy

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Data, as we know it today, is not just a piece of information, it is what fuels most of the industries in the world. Data has become an important tool for determining success and has become a strategic asset. But what happens when there is too much data, too much that it can no more…

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01 Mar

Swiggy’s Big Ambition Takes A Leap Beyond Food Delivery To An Amazon-Like Marketplace Model

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We are living in a tech age where organisations are capitalising on emerging technologies and investing heavily to stay competitive. In a recent article we discussed the rivalry between two of the top food tech companies in India, Swiggy and Zomato and about how they are using technology to expand. While acquiring new technologies is…

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28 Feb

Is The GAN-Powered Website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.Com Creepy Or Brilliant?

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At first glance, thispersondoesnotexist.com may look like nothing more than just a website which showcases random faces — but it’s not as simple as that. The website is a proof of where artificial intelligence stands as of now and a sneak peek to what it may be capable of doing in the near future. Thispersondoesnotexist.com…

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22 Feb

How Indian Food Tech Giants Swiggy And Zomato Are Using AI To Improve Customer Experience

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As the online food ordering trend is becoming more and more prominent in India, the food delivery platforms like Swiggy and Zomato are growing their user base at an exponential rate. A research firm RedSeer stated that the online food delivery market in India is expected to hit $4 billion by 2020. Driven by this…

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18 Feb

How To Use XGBoost To Predict Housing Prices In Bengaluru: A Practical Guide

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XGBoost, an abbreviation for eXtreme Gradient Boosting is one of the most commonly used machine learning algorithms. Be it for classification or regression problems, XGBoost has been successfully relied upon by many since its release in 2014. It is a library for implementing optimised and distributed gradient boosting and provides a great framework for C++,…

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12 Feb

Hands-On Tutorial: How To Use Decision Tree Regression To Solve MachineHack’s New Data Science Hackathon

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We have all been in situations where we went to a doctor when we’re feeling unwell and after finding out the consultation fee, we think that it would have been much better to just have waited out the illness. MachineHack’s latest hackathon now gives you a chance to model and predict doctor’s fee. You can…

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09 Feb

How Natural Language Processing Is Transforming Business Intelligence Tools

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Natural Language Processing has been on the rise — from simple text to speech conversion to powering intelligent voice assistants, we have seen various applications of NLP. Voice assistants like Siri and Alexa have become widely popular among users. Today, NLP has become a core component of all search engines. NLP for Business In the…

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07 Feb

Are Google Maps Really Free, Or Are We Sacrificing Privacy For These AI-Powered Services?

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There is no denying the fact that Google Map serves as a common pathfinder for hundreds of millions of people across the globe. However, there is a much darker side to this, because, in essence, Google harvests our data and pushes paid services towards us. Whenever we key in a location, Google’s advertising algorithm chooses…

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