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The future of AI may depend on historians and musicologists
By PAUL VON BÜNAU The concept of Artificial Intelligence had a massive impact over the past…

Die Sehnsucht nach Transparenz ist eine Sehnsucht nach Begründung. Warum Algorithmen lernen sollten, eine Geschichte zu erzählen.
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Basis aller heutigen Künstlichen Intelligenz sind bekanntlich Algorithmen. Diese sind in…

What do we mean by “data”?
By SANDRA RENDGEN Some technical terms are so ubiquitous and (apparently) unambigious, that they almost…
Life Science and Healthcare
When biology becomes like physics, solutions will emerge from complexity.

Double strength: how can we better predict effective, as-yet untried, drug combinations?
Some things just work better with two – but when it comes to drug combinations,…

Drug development: how predictive algorithms could save big pharma billions
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Immense development costs and low success rates can make drug development…

AlphaFold: from accuracy to application?
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Is your AI project ready for Proof of Concept? Here are 3 ways to check
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Many AI projects are taken to a Proof of Concept (PoC)…

Ideation in AI: five ways to make the workshops work
By PAUL VON BÜNAU Too often, ideation is performed without structure or scrutiny. We must…

Mundane, but magical: the power of database matching
By MONA SCHIRMER With its reputation for being dull and straightforward, database matching is hardly…
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‘Data science discoveries can cause a domino effect’
By HANNAH MARTIN Mona, a Student Assistant at idalab, explains why AI’s habit of turning…

From code to client: insights from a data scientist’s intriguing journey
By HANNAH MARTIN Lea Helmers joined idalab as a data scientist in early 2016. With…

‘Data is a small part of the story’: a glimpse into the life of a data scientist
By HANNAH MARTIN Hagen Hoferichter is a data scientist, but not just any data scientist.…
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