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Since 1953, when the term Artificial Intelligence was coined by John McCarthy in a conference at Dartmouth University we have achieved unthinkable highs: we have taught machines to see, to recognize images or text. We have taught them to read, to listen, speak, or translate. And still they are not even close to having full human-capacities; they don’t comprehend, they …
Just two months ago, Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer acknowledged in a statement that “the data of more than 87 million people could have been shared inappropriately with Cambridge Analytica.” Cambridge Analytica abused the possibilities offered by the social platform creating personality profiles based on that data stolen from the platform. This data was allegedly used to influence the outcome of …
Data is getting more and more specific, with deeper dimension, greater levels of richness from which individuals or organizations can draw insights. Data is especially granular and structure when it affects the core operations of business, governments or other organizations. Surprisingly, this also stands true for events that have gathered the attention and passion of fans from all over the …
BBVA Data & Analytics’ first milestone was achieved in 2011 when BBVA’s Innovation Unit set up a small research team, committed to using existing data sources to solve business challenges. Several external partnerships with research institutions, other startups, Telecom corporations and public institutions, offered promising results such as the massive identification of highly profitable customers formerly labeled as standard customers, …
At BBVA Data & Analytics we are constantly tackling business problems with applied maths, statistics or econometrics. There is no problem too big; but it turns out the solution can be sometimes too big. That premise took BBVA’s data scientist Jordi Nin and Jordi Aranda to explore a way to improve the quality of the insights offered by Commerce 360, …
Maximizing profit is a premise that has always being present in the back of the minds of every trader and salesman since the very early days of commerce; or so they thought. In reality, every actor in search for profit during an exchange of goods or services tends unconsciously to add some measure of fairness into the deal in order …
There are amazing introductions, courses and blog posts on Deep Learning. I will name some of them in the resources sections, but this is a different kind of introduction: a weird introduction. But why weird? Maybe because it won’t follow the “normal” structure of a Deep Learning post, where you start with the math, then go into the papers, the …
Advances in the last five years on how we gather and process data have been key to speed up the way Artificial Intelligence is used in our daily lives and how human perception itself has been augmented with the use of Artificial Intelligence. There has been great progress in image classification or object recognition, as well as numerous advances in …
Late last year Urban Discovery showcased a new way of representing cities based on purchasing behavior. This approach allowed BBVA Data & Analytics examine Madrid, Barcelona and Mexico City under a new light. The insights extracted analyzing patterns of economic behavior helped us redraw the cities beyond the traditional administrative boundaries. The visualization created by BBVA Data & Analytics and …
Putting Design Fiction into practice The banking industry is facing major changes with the digitalization of its core business that impacts the management of risk, trust, identity and decision-making, among other things. As you have seen in Part I of this series of articles. At BBVA Data & Analytics, we spearhead BBVA’s transformation into a data-driven financial group. We …
