In the visualization below, which line do you think represents the UN’s forecast for the number of children in the world in the year 2100? Hans Rosling, in his book Factfulness, presents this chart and notes that in a sample of Norwegian teachers, only 9% correctly identified the correct answer. Rosling, who died two yearsContinue reading “Things are Getting Better”
Yearly Archives: 2019
Artificial Lawyers
Can statistical and machine learning methods replace lawyers? A host of entrepreneurs think so, and do the folks who run www.artificiallawyer.com. Text mining and predictive model products are available now to predict case staffing requirements and perform automated document discovery, and natural language algorithms conduct legal research and case review. In 2017, a predictive algorithmContinue reading “Artificial Lawyers”
Entity Resolution and Identifying Bad Guys
Earlier, we described how Jen Golbeck (who teaches Network Analysis at Statistics.com) analyzed Facebook connections to identify fake accounts (the account holders friends all had the same number of friends, which is highly improbable statistically). Network analysis and studying connections lie at the heart of entity resolution. To a sales and marketing person, entity resolutionContinue reading “Entity Resolution and Identifying Bad Guys”