About our Proof of Concept with TomorrowLab and the city of Aalter (BE). Last week, Arinti made national press with a Proof of Concept we’ve been working on for the…
Chatbot working together with RPA bot: a game changer! We recently teamed up with the guys at Roborana for the InQbet Robotics and AI Hackathon organized by Procter & Gamble. The idea…
a brief report on my first encounter with developing for humanoid robots I can hear you think, who is Pepper? So let me introduce him/her/it (you decide!). Pepper is human-shaped…
An AI love story “How can we merge Chatbots and RPA?” is a question we’ve asked ourselves a few months ago, when we first found out about BleuPrism, UiPath, and…
Part 1: Neural Networks and Deep Learning Intro Andrew Ng is known for being a great a teacher. His new deep learning specialization on Coursera is no exception. The course contains…
In een vorige blogpost kon je lezen wat R is, wanneer en waarvoor je R kunt gebruiken en hoe je ermee van start gaat. Vandaag vertellen we je hoe je met deze…
Insurers are investing in data scientists” “How data science is changing the energy industry” “How big data is revolutionizing the food industry” “How data science is driving the driver less…
In my previous blog post I talked about how to get Twitter data into Power BI. This article will discuss how you can apply text mining on that data with some R…
I was speaking at a meetup last week about a chatbot we developed for a city in Flanders, Belgium. Someone in the crowd asked how much personalization goes into the answers the…
Ever wanted to do some analytics on tweets with a certain hashtag (#) or from a certain user (@)? Don’t look any further, there is a great tool called Microsoft…
IOT seems to be everywhere thesedays. From your car to your fridge. Building applications that use the power of IOT devices can be very useful. In this blog post I…
Part V: Discussion and conclusion Aren’t we all a bit afraid of it? Of robots that are able to read our thoughts and mind? The absolute end of privacy? But…
Part IV: Decomposition of heart rate Intro Today, we arrive at the third and last real-time stress monitoring technique that we will discuss in this series of blogposts. It is…
Part III: Heart rate variability Intro My dear, where to start. There’s so much to explain about heart rate variability (HRV) that a blogpost is almost too short. Anyway, there…
Part II: Skin conductance Skin conductance, also known as electrodermal activity (EDA) is based on the theory that skin conductance varies with the status of the sweat glands in our…
Part I: Background Within four to five weeks, I’m going to let myself in with a prediction about whether machines will ever learn to read our minds, and I’m not…
Different pieces of code in a bot application Controller A controller controls what happens with a message as soon as the user has sent it to the bot. I wouldn’t…
How Donna met LUIS Meetings, meetings, meetings … Ever wondered how you are supposed to schedule that meeting? Too busy, too little space in your agenda and too many things on your…
We’ve all had our good and bad experiences with call centers. Some people consider it a necessary evil, others would say it quite literally saved their life one day. If…
The data revolution in cycling Data is powerful, it can change the way people look at things, by bringing a deeper understanding of the matter. This is no different for cycling.…
A while ago I started working with DataBricks, that can be accessed from inside Microsoft Azure. This blogpost is about importing data from a Blob storage, what can go right,…
The countdown to the 25th of May has begun… Is your organisation fully ready for GDPR? Building chatbots is one of our specialities, and we would like to share some…
Pepper op bezoek bij Technopolis Tijdens de eerste week van de paasvakantie kan je onze Pepper robot vinden bij Technopolis. De robot zal er een week lang deel uitmaken van…
Using PySpark Intro Plotting data against each other, can be done in several ways in Databricks. This blogpost focusses on PySpark to plot the data. If you’re working in R,…
Let’s shake off that stereotype! You don’t get something for nothing. And that’s the origin of a strategy. Because if you and me want to achieve something, we’ll have to…
Pepper @ Sound of Science Previous sunday, Pepper was a guest @ Sound of Science, a science festival at the beautiful location of Hof ter Linden, Edegem. As soon as I…
How to reach the minimum of a cost function Todays blog is all about gradient descent, explained through the example of linear regression. Gradient descent is used to find the best fit for…
Suppose you created a model and predicted or forecasted a horizontal straight line, while your observations clearly have a seasonal pattern. The observations don’t show a straight line at all.…
Virtual machines? Clusters? Nodes? Confused? Lucky you! Not so long ago I went to Amsterdam, and it wasn’t for a long weekend/holiday/fun trip, but for a workshop filled with sweat…
because not all bots need to be great at conversation. Lots of great chat- and voicebots have been developed and presented to the public in the last couple of months.…
Give your efficiency a boost The story of a data scientist learning the way around software engineering At university, my promotor and I once talked about writing a thesis. The conclusion…
Seeing through walls with AI Lately, Professor Dina Katabi from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is getting closer and closer to seeing through walls with help of artificial intelligence (AI).…
Our highlights from 2 days at the World Summit AI. On October 11–12, part of our team was in Amsterdam for the yearly World Summit AI, the largest conference about Applied…