Decision time for AI: Sometimes accuracy is not your friend
When intuition lets you down, you're stuck between ROC and a hard place
06 Jul 2018 | 25
Professor Mark Whitehorn is chair of analytics at Dundee University's School of Computing.
Has your machine really learned something? Snap quiz time
How to tell if your algo is getting it right
13 Apr 2018 | 11
Take the dashboard too literally and your brains might end up all over it
Ooo, pretty colours. But what if the data or interpretation sucks?
28 Mar 2018 | 38
ML fails: Loyalty prediction? Not really. And bonus prediction? Oh dear
Hello, wrong number Unexpected consequences - or drawing the line at non-linear relationships
28 Nov 2017 | 42
Neural networks: Today, classifying flowers... tomorrow, Skynet maybe
Here's one I made earlier – now, over to you
27 Nov 2017 | 11
Combinations? Permutations? Those words don't mean what you think they mean
Hello, wrong number Only joking. You are all very clever
18 Oct 2017 | 52
What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly
Hello, wrong number Show you're not n00b with these slick analytical skillz
04 Oct 2017 | 133
Numbers war: How Bayesian vs frequentist statistics influence AI
Not all figures are equal
22 Jun 2017 | 32
8 out of 10 cats fear statistics – AI doesn't have this problem
Use and abuse of figures
24 May 2017 | 56
Do the numbers, Einstein: AI is more than maths as some know it
Why logic is driving graph databases
17 Mar 2017 | 19
Hard numbers: The mathematical architectures of Artificial Intelligence
Is your machine learning?
02 Feb 2017 | 68
We ain't in 1996 anymore, Dorothy: SQL Server 2016 proves it
Enterprise engine? Check. Cloud database? TBC
18 Jul 2016 | 36
Who you callin' stoopid? No excuses for biz intelligence's poor stats
Note to industry: Must try harder
02 May 2016 | 41
Land Rover's return: Last orders and leather seats for Defender nerds
Blighty's Jeep – done in a thoroughly British way
25 May 2015 | 102
Thank heavens for the silicon chip: A BRIEF history of data
Data Pair – Part 1 You have a pair of bones in Africa to thank for Larry Ellison
21 Apr 2015 | 34
Car hacker secrets revealed: Clutching up a tank engine in a classic motor
+Diagrams A man. A V12 lump. A beaut of a project
21 Dec 2014 | 13
Beyond the genome: YOU'VE BEEN DECODED, again
Welcome to the world of the proteome
28 Nov 2014 | 51
Hi-torque tank engines: EXTREME car hacking with The Register
Bentley found in a hedge gets WW2 lump insertion
26 Nov 2014 | 119
You can crunch it all you like, but the answer is NOT always in the data
Hear that, 'data journalists'? Our analytics prof holds forth
20 Oct 2014 | 31
About to make a big bet? Don't crash out, cash in with the power of maths
Big Data's Big 5 From biz changes to Monte Carlo, probabilities of risk explained
29 May 2014 | 30
What can The Simpsons teach us about stats algorithms? Glad you asked...
Big Data's Big 5 No, not the Simpsons – Simpson's Paradox
28 May 2014 | 45
Big data hitting the fan? Nyquist-Shannon TOOL SAMPLE can save you
Big Data's Big 5 Lessons from information theorists brainboxes - in pictures
23 May 2014 | 8
Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival
Big Data's Big 5 Leaky data is a double agent in intelligence analysis
20 May 2014 | 57
How to catch a fraudster – using 'top cop' Benford and the power of maths
Big Data's Big 5 Nothing attracts 'unnatural' numbers like this smooth curve
14 May 2014 | 73
