Neil Raden

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Neil Raden, based in Santa Fe, NM, is an active industry analyst, consultant and widely published author and speaker and also the founder of Hired Brains Research. Hired Brains provides thought leadership, context and advisory consulting and implementation services in Information Management, Analytics/ Data Science, Machine Learning/AI and IoT for clients worldwide. Hired Brains also provides consulting, market research, product marketing and advisory services to the software industry. Neil is the co-author of Smart (Enough) Systems: How to Deliver Competitive Advantage by Automating Hidden Decisions, Prentice-Hall. He welcomes your comments at nraden@hiredbrains.com.

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health-care-tech

To understand AI advancements in health care, there are two storylines we must follow

Yes, health care needs AI - but maybe not in the ways we think. A new book on AI's medical potential needs a critical eye. With AI, there is always a human consequence beyond the tech storyline.

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Data for good and AI ethics - a movement or just a conversation?

The issue of AI ethics has sharpened - ideas for governing AI and ethical oversight are gaining a foothold. But will they have any teeth? And what about the possibility that AI can oversee itself?

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Can we create better algorithms for screening candidates - and reduce hiring bias?

A new research paper from Georgia Tech takes a surprising position on algorithmic bias in hiring. Their view: we can reduce screening bias if algorithms take the impacted demographic groups into account. Here's my critique.

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New York state regulators pushed back on data brokers for insurance - will other states and industries follow?

A warning letter from New York State's Department of Financial Services (DFS) raised far-reaching data privacy questions for the insurance industry. With the increasing role of algorithmic claims processing, this is an ethics debate we can't ignore.

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Big data didn't fall with MapR - Hadoop is fading, but data lakes are not

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined.

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Are hiring decisions ready for AI? How repeatable algorithms can harm people

AI marketing literature extols the benefits of algorithmic hiring. But the problem of algorithmic bias and hiring fairness raises serious questions.

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Data brokers and the implications of data sharing - the good, bad and ugly

The term "data sharing" is expanding, but in a problematic way that raises flags for companies and consumers alike. Neil Raden provides a deeper context for data sharing trends, dividing them into the good, bad and ugly.

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Some good advice on the challenges of securing the IoT

Surfacing the issues around securing the IoT.

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What can enterprise software learn from genomic research?

Advances in genomic research have changed our view of the human genome. Promising health care advances are in the works, but we'll need massive computing power to see this through. Will enterprise software as we know it change as a result?

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Why you need to put Bayesian Nets in your tool bag

Casting a net over Bayesian Inference.

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Tell me how good it will feel when I implement your solution

In pursuit of happiness with the promise of harmonized data.

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Graph analysis - some off-the-wall use cases

Graph technology is on the rise with some interesting applications.

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Ten rules for business models

BI and business models take to the catwalk.

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