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Archived Content

Archived Content

This section contains our archived content, including historical resources, legacy documentation, and past offerings. While some specific details may have evolved, much of this content remains valuable for understanding our company’s journey and the development of our solutions.

You’ll find archived app documentation, technical glossaries, information about previous offerings, and technology stack overviews. These resources provide historical context and may still be useful for understanding foundational concepts and approaches.

Please note that current product information and documentation can be found in our main content sections. This archive is maintained for reference purposes and historical continuity.

Social distancing - data versus information

Social distancing - data versus information

Guest contributor on AIFightsBack last week was CEO of Mockingbird Consulting Matthew Macdonald-Wallace. Matt shared how the impact of COVID has produced opportunities that have taken them beyond their current client base of farming and AgriTech to include commercial and industrial sectors. He gave examples of IoT solution applications in customer flows for retail, ordering systems for restaurants and preventive maintenance in farms.

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TheĀ Jazz EnsembleĀ of Data Science with Novartis

TheĀ Jazz EnsembleĀ of Data Science with Novartis

Everyone is an expert and each one is allowed to do their own part separately but when we come together the magic happens. The team lead, along with Math and Stats person, the Data Visualisation, Storytelling team and domain experts all work in unison. This according to Ashwini Mathur, Head of Data Science at the Novartis AI Innovation Hub in Dublin is essential to delivering great data science.

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Why Trustworthy AI Matters with Clare Dillon

Why Trustworthy AI Matters with Clare Dillon

Guest contributor on AIFightsBack last week was Technologist Clare Dillon. She presented A Journey to Trustworthy AI from an economic, social, political, and cultural lens. This thought-provoking session demonstrated clearly why we all need to build trust in both building and buying AI solutions. It was backed up nicely with plenty of use cases and several major AI bloopers out there.

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Understanding the techniques behind AI in manufacturing

Understanding the techniques behind AI in manufacturing

It’s no secret that the disruption of Industry 4.0 and the challenges presented by Covid-19 have been a push for manufacturers to evaluate digital transformation and consider going smart with AI in their factories. This article, adapted from the webinar shared below, is aimed at manufacturers who are interested in the techniques, data infrastructure and processes needed to support building internal data science & AI intellectual property.

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The Historian and AI Webinar (AIFightsBack)

The Historian and AI Webinar (AIFightsBack)

AI for manufacturing has huge potential. As well as clear AI use cases like robotics and automation, the wealth of data being consolidated into industrial time series via historian appliances presents an opportunity for further AI applications. Using the data being consolidated, we can build early warning systems for critical issues, optimise maintenance programs, and improve processes.

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Artificial Intelligence for Marketers

Artificial Intelligence for Marketers

Yesterday, we delivered the AI for Marketers webinar as part of our AIFightsBack series. Here, you will find the resources (slides, recording, information, and links) from the talk. As a sector, marketing is ripe for AI adoption due to the volume of data insights available. It's transforming how companies market their products and services to other businesses, streamlining processes at all levels of the sales funnel. Broadly speaking, AI can help to improve the customer journey and improve your ROI on campaigns. But how exactly?

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No code. No data. No servers. How Marino Software became a ML company.

No code. No data. No servers. How Marino Software became a ML company.

Marino Software are one of the longest standing software consultancies in Ireland with almost 20 years under their belt they have seen their fair share of ups and downs. As part of our AIFightsBack webinar series CEO Keith Davey talks candidly about how they have morphed into a machine learning company helping their clients deliver exceptional customer experience. They have a pretty impressive list of clients who are testament to this service and it includes telcos, banks and retailers. Both slides and the webinar are available below.

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AI in Manufacturing (presentation, video, and quick guide)

AI in Manufacturing (presentation, video, and quick guide)

Yesterday, we ran our first AI in Manufacturing webinar, in association with the Irish Centre of Business Excellence. You can grab the slides, read up on the topic, and/or watch the webinar below.

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Augmenting Customer Services with Chatbots

Augmenting Customer Services with Chatbots

Last week we kicked off our AIFightsBack series to help businesses understand how AI can be used to support a safe and productive business during COVD-19 and beyond. The slides and video are now available.

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What is Google Cloud BigQuery?

BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless cloud data warehouse that scales with your needs and is easy to set-up and manage. By adopting BigQuery, you can avoid the hassle of developing and managing the infrastructure needed to store large, complex datasets, allowing you to focus on gaining insight from your data.

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