A Blog about Machine Learning, Data Privacy and what it takes to make sense of the digital words in the rise of the digital millennium.
Walter Vandervelde did a presentation at Professional Women International on creativity this month. He taught us how to kill our internal dragons to be more creative đ NONO, the dragon of the criticism, prejudices and conservatism: Change your automatic reply from ‘yes but’ to a ‘yes and’. That will stop criticism and you’ll feel the Read More …
Thanks to @PascalMestdach for presenting the visual systems modelling method at the #LeanCampBxl Unconference. This is a very easy management technique to help visualising a complex organisation, and reflect on the dynamics at work when aiming for a particular goal. A full model of an organisation with all the different perspectives is very hard to do, Read More …
In a very interesting article in last Harvard Business Review “The neuroscience of trust” by Paul J. Zak. describes how trust works, and its relationship with employee engagement. Then presents eight management behaviors that create a culture of trust as the base to improve productivity through employee engagement. Gallupâs meta-analysis [âŚ] shows that high engagementâdefined largely as having a Read More …
I tweeted recently on this article about how Big Data has been used on the last American Presidential campaign. “At Cambridge,” he said, “we were able to form a model to predict the personality of every single adult in the United States of America.” The hall is captivated. According to Nix, the success of Cambridge Read More …
We are approaching the end of the year. For most of us this is the time to Last Year’s introspection and New Yearâs big resolutionsâŚ(and if you donât usually do it I recommend it to you: time flies (!) and taking the wheel of your life brings you a lovely sense of realisation đ Have you Read More …
Last week Bev from PWIâs group in Linkedin pointed me to a great HBR article: âHow One Clothing Company Blends AI and Human Expertiseâ, by H. James Wilson, Paul Daugherty and Prashant Shukla. It describes how the company Stitch Fix works, using machine learning insights to assist their designers, and as you will see, they Read More …
This post is about THE basic stuff in business: how to get the contract, and how to make it be a good deal. Lately, I’ve participated in 2 great talks for women entrepreneurs from PWI and PWN Munich. One was about about discussing money and remunerations and the other about sales. The key basic principles Read More …
I did a talk in May this year called âRestore the balance of dataâ at the Data Innovation Summit. It was about sexism and other biases that are implicit in our existing electronic traces (actual and historical data) and my concern because we are using that data as baseline information to create the new prediction Read More …
I’m an eternal learner. There are so many interesting things that time is precious, so when I came accross this MOOC I couldn’t but enroll and check it out. Anything that helps learning stuff while reducing the needed studying time really appeals to me! I’m talking about the online course from Coursera called Learning how Read More …
Two weeks ago was the Data Innovation Summit 2016. I was due to speak using the presentation format of ‘ignite’. For the ones who don’t know this format, it’s a nightmare! Out of joke, it means that slides go automatically at regular intervals (15″ in my case). You cannot stop it, you don’t control the flow… Read More …