Walmart – An omni-channel vision with data as its core

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Walmart is striving to be the leader of omni-channel strategy in retail. Data is at the center of this vision. Walmart is leveraging both internal data (e.g. in-store data, online data) as well as external data (e.g. social media, weather, Nielsen) to improve the customer experience, enhance decision-making and improve operations.

182-year-old P&G enters Big Data with Start-Up Pampers and Smart Diapers

P&G creates Start-Up Pampers and takes to the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show with the Lumi care connected system. A bundle of smart diapers, baby monitors, and a consumer facing app aims to combine parental insight with real time activity tracking to help first time parents ascend the steep learning curve that comes with caring for a new born baby and feeling confident while doing so.

Chorus.ai: Conversational Intelligence

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Your phone just rang. It was from a salesperson of XYZ company who was trying to sell you a product, but all you hear was his monotone voice. You hung up, frustrated by the thirty seconds you just wasted. On […]

AstraZeneca: AI in Drug Discovery & Development

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Currently, it takes a staggering 10-15 years and costs $2.6 billion to develop a new drug, and an astonishing proportion of this is lost in the 90% of candidates that fail. AstraZeneca is one of the world’s largest Pharmaceutical companies and is incorporating AI in every step of the R&D chain from drug discovery to launch to make this process safer, quicker and less costly.

Walmart: Using machine learning to reduce food waste

Food waste is a major problem across the globe. Grocery retailers incur significant costs from this wastage, particularly in the produce category. Walmart is taking this problem head-on with analytics using ‘Eden’: a machine learning algorithm that screens produce for quality and freshness. This post explores Walmart's attempts to improve their food waste process with Eden.

Affectiva: building AI that reads human emotions

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As the amount of data we collect increases, companies are leveraging advanced analytics to drive insights also from the most unusual sources of data, including people facial expressions or speech. In fact, an interesting application of artificial intelligence (AI) and […]