The fastest driver in Formula 1

Favorite This blog post was co-authored, and includes an introduction, by Rob Smedley, Director of Data Systems at Formula 1 Formula 1 (F1) racing is the most complex sport in the world. It is the blended perfection of human and machine that create the winning formula. It is this blend

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 20, 2020

Using A/B testing to measure the efficacy of recommendations generated by Amazon Personalize

Favorite Machine learning (ML)-based recommender systems aren’t a new concept, but developing such a system can be a resource-intensive task—from data management during training and inference, to managing scalable real-time ML-based API endpoints. Amazon Personalize allows you to easily add sophisticated personalization capabilities to your applications by using the same

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 20, 2020

Why bullet points don’t work for knowledge sharing

Favorite The Curse of Knowledge is a real problem when it comes to knowledge sharing; trying to transfer knowledge to the Unknown User. It’s also one of the reasons why lesson management systems are full of mushy motherhoods and useless bullet points. Curses!!! Foiled Again.uploaded to Flickr by Joe Shlabotnik The

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Shared by Nick Milton August 19, 2020

The sound of India’s AI potential

Favorite On August 15, India’s Independence Day, it’s customary to sing Jana Gana Mana: the Indian national anthem, originally composed by the poet Rabindranath Tagore and adopted as the anthem after India gained full independence.   This year, together with Prasar Bharati and Virtual Bharat, we offered Indians a new take

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Shared by Google AI Technology August 18, 2020

An evaluation of a KM strategy – example from Oxfam

Favorite It’s not often you see a public review of a KM Strategy – here is a good example. Image by Stefan Erschwendner, on Flickr I blogged yesterday about Oxfam’s KM strategy. Oxfam referred to knowledge and to knowledge management several times in their 2013 to 2019 strategic plan, which allowed

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Shared by Nick Milton August 18, 2020

Amazon Personalize can now create up to 50% better recommendations for fast changing catalogs of new products and fresh content

Favorite Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to create personalized recommendations for fast-changing catalogs of books, movies, music, news articles, and more, improving recommendations by up to 50% (measured by click-through rate) with just a few clicks in the AWS console. Without needing to change any application code, Amazon Personalize

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning August 17, 2020

KM strategy map – example from Oxfam

Favorite A KM strategy map is a great way to visually connect KM activity and organisational strategy. Here is an example. Last week I blogged about Knowledge Management at Oxfam, and shared their Rights and Responsibilities table. In today’s post I use Oxfam again, as a demonstration of how to

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Shared by Nick Milton August 17, 2020

"KM rights and responsibilities" charter at Oxfam

Favorite What rights do your workers have in terms of access to knowledge? What are their corresponding responsibilities? Intermon Oxfam by on Mover el Bigote on Flickr Knowledge management is well developed in the aid and development sector, perhaps because knowledge, in this sector, as a more abundant resource than

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Shared by Nick Milton August 14, 2020