AI practitioner turns Science Fiction into reality

Hesham Dar has been greatly influenced by Science Fiction in his work as a Data Scientist

Most people have dreamt about what the future looks like, but that future is already here for Hesham Dar – a Data Scientist and AI practitioner in Samsung Research. We talked with Hesham about how science fiction coloured his view on AI and how he wanted to be a part of developing the technology he saw on television shows such as Star Trek.

Reading RR intervals from EliteHRV with Pandas

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a measure of the time interval between each heart beat and is a measure that in contrast to beats per minute can quantify the variation between each heartbeat. This blog post explains how HRV readings done with the mobile application EliteHRV can be read and plotted with Pandas and Python.…

Fear not – AI won’t take over in the imminent future

Within the recent decades, and even centuries undertakings done by humans have seen automation and machine replacements. The affected people and groups have subsequently transitioned to new occupations and the world has moved on. Such as when machines took over as the main driver within the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution (Wikipedia, 2016) or…

Ethical challenges that Data Science faces

Challenges such as data quality, models, algorithms, processing power and processing speed are well spoken challenges within data science, but one highly important challenge that rarely get mentioned is the ethical aspect of Data Science (Presthus, 2012). With the rise of even more connected devices, digital services and automated systems the amount of data that…