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Winner's Insight: Navigating the Parkinson's Disease Prediction Challenge with AI
Parkinson’s disease, a condition affecting movement, cognition, and sleep, is escalating rapidly. By 2037, it is projected that around 1.6 million U.S. residents will be confronting this disease, resulting in significant societal and economic challenges. Studies have hinted that disruptions in proteins or peptides could be instrumental in...
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Recap of H2O World India 2023: Advancements in AI and Insights from Industry Leaders
On April 19th, the H2O World made its debut in India, marking yet another milestone in its global journey. The conference gathered an array of notable experts and enthusiasts from deep learning, artificial intelligence, and data science. A broad spectrum of topics was covered, shedding light on the strides made in AI technology and its ...
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Insights from AI for Good Hackathon: Using Machine Learning to Tackle Pollution
At H2O.ai, we believe technology can be a force for good, and we’re committed to leveraging its power to create a positive impact in the world. As part of this commitment, we recently organized an AI for Good Hackathon during the H2O World India event, where participants had the opportunity to apply their data science skills to a real-wor...
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H2O.ai at NeurIPS 2022
H2O.ai is proud to participate in the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2022, one of the biggest and most prestigious international conferences in artificial intelligence. NeurIPS 2022 will be a Hybrid Conference from Monday, November 28th through Friday, December 9th, with an in-person event at the New Or...
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Saving Zebras: “Their stripes are like fingerprints. No two are alike.”
It’s been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But to Tanya Berger-Wolf, a picture is far more valuable than that. To Berger-Wolf, photos, images and videos are key to protecting biodiversity and entire species around the world. Scientists have known for years that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction on our planet...
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AI for Good: PetFinder.my Levels Up Furry Matchmaking
Nothing tugs at the heart strings quite like a poster in your neighborhood about a missing cat or dog. For years, technology has enabled lost pets to be reunited with their families in the form of a small microchip that contains an owner’s contact information. Now some organizations are turning to emerging technology to help the millions ...
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Three Keys to Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Your Organization
There’s certainly been no shortage of examples of AI gone bad over the past few years–enough to give everyone pause on how (and if) this technology can truly be used for good. If it’s not Facebook selling data of its users , it’s self-driving cars from Uber that can’t recognize pedestrians in time to slow down or stop. So while the uses ...
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The H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge Winners Blog Series - Team Titans
Note : this is a community blog post by Team Titans – one of the H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge winners. You can check out their app here .BackgroundForest fires have been getting worse in recent years. According to a report by the WWF, the duration of fire seasons across the globe has increased by 19% on average. The fire season has been sta...
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The H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge Winners Blog Series - Team PSR
Note : this is a community blog post by Team PSR – one of the H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge winners.This blog represents an experience we gained by participating in the H2O wildfire challenge. We need to mention that competing in this challenge is like a journey in a knowledge pool. For a person who is willing to get the knowledge of buildin...
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The H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge Winners Blog Series - Team HTB
Note : this is a community blog post by Team HTB – one of the H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge winners. You can check out their app here . The Challenge The purpose of the challenge was to develop an AI application to improve the forecast of bushfires and wildfires, with the main aim of reducing the human losses that these phenomena can cause...
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The H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge Winners Blog Series - Team Too Hot Encoder
Note : this is a community blog post by Team Too Hot Encoder – one of the H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge winners. You can check out their app here .The ChallengeThe aim of the project is to predict the probability of wildfire occurrence in Turkey for each month in 2020. As a result of these predictions, it is aimed to carry out more intensive...
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Tackling Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing with AI
According to a report by the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, it is estimated that illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounts for 20 percent of the seafood and up to 50 percent in some areas. These activities not only affect the marine ecosystem but, in a way, are linked to climate change on the planet a...
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Introducing the H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge
We are excited to announce our first AI competition for good – H2O.ai Wildfire Challenge .We’ve structured this challenge to be a global collaborative effort to do good for the world that we share. We want teams to submit their ideas and applications freely, knowing that other teams will learn from what they’ve done to improve their AI ap...
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Lessons of COVID-19 and Moving Forward: Key Takeaways
This week, we hosted our second virtual panel focused on how AI can empower healthcare organizations to make better decisions and save lives. Improved forecasting and predictions lead to higher chances in managing and mitigating adverse events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m proud to acknowledge that H2O.ai is committed to helping cus...
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Three Ways Data and AI is Helping Against COVID19
We are in the midst of a global crisis that epidemiologists have warned us about. As of today, 180 countries and sovereign regions have confirmed cases of patients infected with COVID19 (from here ). Putting aside evidence that indicates the virulence of the disease could be much worse, the fast spread of the virus and the presence of hi...
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Igniting the AI in Healthcare Community
Yesterday we held our first Community Discussion on AI in Healthcare. Our CEO and founder, Sri Ambati led the discussion between Niki Athanasiadou, Marios Michailidis, one of our Grandmasters , and myself. We had nearly 1,300 participants registered from over 45 countries, and over half of those joined live others are viewing the replay. ...
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COVID-19: Doing Good with Data + AI
During times of severe societal strain, individuals have historically shown an inclination to offer aid and assistance. Often these sacrifices have been at great cost to life or livelihood. In other cases, the efforts have been seemingly more mundane but nevertheless still essential. The efforts of the over 10,000 women code breakers of W...
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How H2O.ai is Reinventing Healthcare with AI
H2O.ai is hosting a virtual Meetup on AI and Healthcare: Best Practices for Better Outcomes. Join us on 26th March, for a community discussion to collaborate with us and leading healthcare organizations to share ideas and best practices including predicting hospital staffing needs, ICU transfers, as well as sepsis detection and more. Reg...
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It is a privilege to serve the world in its hour of need – H2O.ai response to the COVID-19 pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, our world, our nations, states, counties, cities and communities face an unprecedented challenge with an urgent need to help our citizens and ultimately our national and global economy. At highest risk are senior citizens, at-risk populations (individuals with immunodeficiency, hypertension, diabetes) and our...
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Health Outcomes and the Miracle of Data
In 1846, a physician named Ignatz Semmelweis, located at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna, faced a dire healthcare crisis. He observed that the maternity ward in his own hospital (as well as those in other area hospitals) had a maternal mortality rate of over 15%. That is, one out of every six mothers who came to his hospital to give ...
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