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October 28, 2020BlogIs an older ETL platform slowing your business down? Before you start the migration process, ask yourself when and why you need a new ETL solution.ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) processes have bec...
October 27, 2020BlogCOVID has sped up the adoption of contactless and digital technologies – and there’s no reason to assume retail will revert to pre-COVID conditions once the pandemic is over. Learn which digital techn...
October 21, 2020BlogDuring the initial stages of the COVID lockdown, we started Absolutely Refreshed. Read on to find out what the outreach was all about and how it’s impacted our employees’ morale.When COVID-1...
October 20, 2020BlogCOVID’s impact on retail activities has left companies trying to maximize promotions on a limited budget and a tight timeframe. How can AI help them solve this puzzle?To say COVID-19 transformed...
October 15, 2020BlogThey walk among seemingly strong product portfolios, cannibalizing sales and draining your budget.In recent months, The Coca-Cola Company has been on a zombie-killing spree – or, in other words,...- October 14, 2020BlogGaurav Choudhary, our Engagement Manager, talks about the challenges and changes involved in working from home. This is our second edition of Notes from Home; if you missed the first one, you can get ...
October 13, 2020BlogTo stand out from the competition, you need more than just revenue growth management; you need AI-powered revenue growth management initiatives that are tailored to your company’s goals. Find out why....
October 8, 2020BlogWhat are market insights? Why do you need them? What should you do next? Find out in this post.Analytics has become a standard part of business intelligence – companies routinely gather and anal...
October 6, 2020BlogAI and machine learning aren’t just a nice-to-have capabilities — rather a must for CPG companies to conquer the new normal.The pandemic transformed the marketplace by breaking established buyin...- October 1, 2020BlogHow we pivoted to a virtual professional learning and development program – and helped our employees skill up from home.At Absolutdata, we love helping our employees develop their professional ski...
September 29, 2020Blog6 ways AI can help retailers manage COVID chaos and post-COVID uncertaintyIn some parts of the world, COVID chaos is still reigning, disrupting supply chains and throwing all retailers’ carefull...
September 22, 2020BlogDeveloping an analytics roadmap is an essential part of your analytics strategy. In this post, we’ll tell you what you need to know before you start building your roadmap. A robust anal...
September 17, 2020Technical ArticleBrainWave Data Science Digest_Edition 4 is our new data science digest of articles from our data science, analytics and data engineering teams. The fourth edition is a compilation of all our technical...- September 17, 2020BlogAt Absolutdata, we believe that it’s important to give back to our community. That’s why we’ve set up a number of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Corporate social respo...
September 15, 2020BlogCOVID-19 has temporarily shuttered some businesses and moved others to a remote-work paradigm. Meanwhile, people are depending on telecoms to stay connected. How can AI help telecoms meet these demand...
September 10, 2020BlogCOVID-19 has caused even avid travelers to stay home. Quarantines, lockdowns, travel restrictions, and even outright travel bans have slashed hotels’ revenue streams. How can AI help them regain the c...- September 9, 2020BlogIn this issue, we talk with Saee Chaudhary, Analytics Consultant at Absolutdata, about working from home, staying productive, and picking up new hobbies during the lockdown.Adjusting to Telework...
September 8, 2020BlogSeveral studies confirm what most retailers already know: Price is a huge factor in customers’ buying decisions. How can AI help online and offline retailers set prices that attract consumers and stil...
September 4, 2020Technical ArticleNeural networks have become the state-of-the-art algorithm for solving many complex problems in today’s world. However, one of the major challenges of using neural networks is to find the best archite...- September 4, 2020Technical ArticleOverview Meta learning is synonymous with “learning to learn”. Our usual machine learning models require many data samples for training. The basic idea behind meta learning is to teach the machine ab...
September 3, 2020E-bookSeveral top global brands have used AI to address critical business challenges and get substantial returns. Download this eBook to demystify the roadmap to success with modern tech. Read on to find ou...
September 2, 2020BlogAbsolutdata conducted a study on 1000+ consumers for three months to track their sentiment, confidence index and changing behavior or forecast the trends that are likely to shape up in the future. Thi...
September 1, 2020Case StudyWhen you’re one of the world’s largest mobile telecommunications companies – serving over 200 million subscribers globally– it’s important to keep your network in top condition. The client is not only...- August 27, 2020Technical ArticleIntroduction Meta Learning is a complex, yet sought-after algorithm that deals with a hurdle faced by common machine learning (ML) algorithms. It is distinct in its ability to solve problems throug...
- August 27, 2020Technical ArticleIntroduction Imagine you are given a problem of developing a facial recognition software for an office which has around 100 employees. The first thing that one would do before building a model is to ...
August 26, 2020BlogFine-tuning marketing strategies to meet customers’ emerging demands is essential as we move towards a post-COVID mindset. The COVID epidemic is still growing strong in many places. Eve...
August 20, 2020BlogThe COVID-19 crisis arrived on the heels of the “retail apocalypse”. Now more than ever, retailers need to invest in AI and its related technologies if they want to move forward.There’s no doubt ...- August 19, 2020Technical ArticleMeta learning is one of the most important pillars of next-gen analytics products. The models need to continuously update themselves to give high quality recommendations. The Decision Option Generator...
- August 19, 2020Technical ArticleIntroduction Hyperparameter tuning is the process of finding the best subset of hyperparameters for a given problem. Simply put, we use this tuning to figure out if a tree depth of 12 is better than ...
- August 19, 2020Technical ArticleThis article presents visualization processes that can be followed while working on an Automated Machine Learning (auto-ML) environment.Abstract Training a model on an auto-ML environment involve...
August 13, 2020Thought LeadershipThere’s a fundamental shift underway in the consumer products and goods (CPG) market, driven by substantial changes in consumer behavior and marketplace conditions related to the pandemic. Businesses ...
August 11, 2020BlogWhat will consumers do in the New Normal? An AI-backed peek into the future.As the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering a second phase, businesses worldwide are trying to determine their nex...
August 5, 2020BlogAs e-commerce grows – at least in part due to COVID-19 – online retailers are using AI to pave their way to efficiency, personalization, and ultimately success.If consumers were hesitant about us...
August 4, 2020WebinarCOVID-19 has generated a plethora of perspectives, articles, whitepapers and webinars about what the post-pandemic consumer will look like. Each of these documents contain valuable predictions and som...
July 23, 2020BlogThe Coronavirus crisis has changed many aspects of our daily lives. Consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) are fighting back – using AI to make better decisions and maximize outcomes during the pand...- July 16, 2020Technical ArticleBrainWave Data Science Digest_Edition 3 is our new data science digest of articles from our data science, analytics and data engineering teams. The third edition is a compilation of all our technical ...
July 8, 2020BlogAn expert guide to the current state of the telecom industry and data analytics’ role in its future. The telecom industry is complex and exciting. It’s dynamically growing as companies ...
July 2, 2020Case StudyAs we’ve seen in the COVID-19 crisis, preparedness is key when dealing with serious medical outbreaks. Our client, a U.S.-based vaccine manufacturer, wanted to examine vaccine usage at leading medical...
July 1, 2020BlogNavigating the fallout from COVID-19 will require hospitality brands to adopt an agile, data-driven approach.COVID-19 has presented a serious obstacle for most businesses, but few have been impact...
June 25, 2020WebcastWe’ve seen it over and over again: predictive models that don’t work. Maybe they’re making false predictions. Or they’re accurately predicting something quite irrelevant. Or, sometimes, models can be ...
June 25, 2020BlogWant to build an accurate model? Rely on technical knowledge. Want a model that’s effective and usable? You’ll need a lot more than just technical chops.We’ve seen it over and over again: predicti...
June 18, 2020BlogCOVID-19 has affected business levels, methodologies, and consumer behavior on an unprecedented scale. How are business leaders adapting? What future opportunities do they see arising from the shakeup...
June 17, 2020Case StudyA leading global pharmaceutical and medical device company needed to strategize their investments. This required them to forecast category growth for eight upcoming quarters across seven countries ̶ n...
June 3, 2020BlogAI has already become entrenched in pharma and health companies, but COVID-19 is driving faster innovations.AI was already very much on the pharma and health industries’ radar, but the COVID-19 ou...
May 26, 2020BlogExamining the short- and long-term implications of COVID-19 on data analytics and analysts.In some ways, the world is now more conscious of data analytics than ever before. Why? Think of the last ...
May 21, 2020WebcastCOVID-19 may have disrupted businesses and economy to a great deal, and there will be short term as well as long term implications of the pandemic. There are signs that the economy will recover with s...- May 15, 2020Technical ArticleCourses Introduction to Fuzzy Set Theory, Arithmetic and Logic Link: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc19_ma31/preview Excerpt: “In most real-life applications of any decision making, one needs to face ...
- May 15, 2020Technical ArticleSince the conception of fuzzy logic, there have been many doubts about its usability. People have been raising questions like:Is there a need for fuzzy logic? Doesn’t fuzzy logic contradict c...
- May 6, 2020Technical ArticleOverview “Fuzzy”, in one sense, refers to things that aren’t quite clear: fuzzy vision, fuzzy thinking, etc. In computer terms, “fuzzy” is the opposite of true/false Boolean logic; it exists on a con...
- May 6, 2020Technical ArticleIntroduction As a data scientist, you extract data from various sources: publicly available APIs, scraped from web pages, or directly asking for it. Data in the real world can be messy, and dealing w...
April 22, 2020Case StudyLike many companies, this UK-based pharma organization had already invested in data analytics. But something was missing. They had the data, the people, and the tools … but no way to get information t...
April 20, 2020BlogIt’s not just the quality of your data insights – it’s how fast you can get them that matters.Much has been written about the business and economic impact of the COVID-19 virus; we don't need to r...- April 13, 2020Technical ArticleInterpretation alone doesn’t necessarily lead to an accurate or wise judgement. There are usually many options between yes and no. This broad spectrum of options, which are not fully yes and not fully...
- April 9, 2020Technical ArticleOverview Uncertainty is inherent in the field of medicine and bioinformatics. There are a lot of “fuzzy areas”; there may be little information (or mistaken information) about the patient, lab result...
- April 6, 2020Technical ArticleOverview A friend asks you how the weather is. Your reply depends on the season, right? Hot or cold. But will it always be either hot or cold? No. Sometimes it will be “somewhat hot”; sometimes it wi...
- April 6, 2020Technical ArticleOverview Neural networks are a set of algorithms inspired by the structure of the human brain’s neural network; they attempt to mimic how our brains function. Neural networks have the potential to le...
March 31, 2020BlogThe impact of COVID-19 on the business world is being well documented. It's been linked with everything from spikes in unemployment and a projected recession to spurring the adoption of 5G...- March 12, 2020Technical ArticleBrainWave Data Science Digest_Edition 2 is our new data science digest of articles from our data science, analytics and data engineering teams. The second edition is a compilation of all our technical...
- February 12, 2020Technical ArticleBackground Sentiment analysis is “the process of identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in the text to determine the user’s attitude towards the subject of the document”. Retrieval o...
- February 12, 2020Technical ArticleThis is the last in a series of seven NLP articles. It presents the latest techniques and thought processes that are currently being researched for Question Answering Systems (QAS). Abstract ...
February 11, 2020BlogIf you want to keep up with today’s travelers, you need to move fast. AI fast.According to the U.S. Travel Answer Sheet, travel spending in the US averaged $3 billion a day or over $1 trillion a y...
January 30, 2020BlogNo longer the exclusive purview of tech companies and giant e-comms, AI is also transforming the traditional retail landscape.Traditional retailers are feeling the need to step up their game. Not ...
January 28, 2020Case StudyOur client, a US-based multi-national CPG leader whose portfolio includes several iconic brands, had run into a difficult situation: targets were being missed, inventory costs were high, and no one kn...- January 27, 2020Technical ArticleBidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers – or BERT for short – is a neural-network-based pre-training technique for natural language processing applications. Pre-training a neur...
- January 27, 2020Technical ArticleThe world of social media is advancing rapidly. This has resulted in the collection of copious amounts of data in the form of unstructured text. This text, although very useful, can be hard to interpr...
January 23, 2020BlogMarket research and insight delivery is evolving. 2020 is the ideal time to start preparing your organization for 2030. Technology is changing rapidly. In 2020, we can expect to see major...- January 22, 2020Technical ArticleWhat Is NLP? “Natural language processing (NLP) is a combination of linguistics, computer science, information engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. It is concerned with the interactions ...
January 21, 2020Case StudyCompanies have a lot of ways to define customer loyalty. Our client, a leading auto company, had a slightly different definition than just repeat purchases. For them, customer loyalty included how oft...
January 16, 2020BlogAugmented analytics, integrated AI, Natural Language Processing, and other emerging tech trends are already changing how we do business. Technology disruptions are an accepted, even expec...
January 14, 2020Case StudyTrying to derive specific actionable insights from sales and brand performance dashboards was costing business users many hours – and the analytics team was spending too much time and effort in manuall...
December 20, 2019WebinarResearch in 2020 will go through a major innovation makeover that will set the stage for the next decade. This webinar covers the four key megatrends driving this massive shift and how those megatrend...
December 11, 2019BlogHow can foodservice manufacturers overcome disruption and data challenges to thrive in the 21st century? Until fairly recently, foodservice manufacturers weren’t all that affected by tech...- December 4, 2019Technical ArticleText to SQL is a system that converts English statements to SQL queries. This can help in retrieving information stored in a database by expressing commands in natural language (e.g. English). ...