Author: Kelwin

Long-term vs. Short-term Predictions in Machine Learning

When building a machine learning model, one of the most common questions is whether to opt for long-term or short-term predictions. In other words, should you build a model that forecasts an event tomorrow or a month from now? Our article will demystify this critical decision-making process. We’ll walk you through a strategic approach that […]

Written by on Jan 27, 2024

Who to Hire First for Your AI Team: Data Analyst, Scientist or Engineer?

Building an AI team can be daunting, especially when you’re unsure about the right talent to hire first. In this article, we’ll first explore the roles of data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers, and discuss the pros and cons of hiring each profile. We’ll also delve into how these roles fit into your company […]

Written by on Dec 2, 2023

Five Years Helping Entrepreneurs Embrace AI

We celebrate the 5th anniversary of NILG.AI with immense pride and gratitude. Over the years, we’ve embarked on a transformative journey, and today, as we commemorate this milestone, we want to take a moment to reflect on our accomplishments and share our exciting plans for the future. NILG.AI Fifth Anniversary: A Year of Remarkable Achievements […]

Written by on Sep 4, 2023

Making Money with Mediocre AI Models: A Guide for Business Stakeholders

In the world of AI, it’s easy to assume that only the most accurate models can bring value to your business. However, this is far from the truth. In fact, even mediocre models can be transformed into money-making machines with the right strategies. In this article, we’ll explore three real-life examples of how we turned […]

Written by on Aug 15, 2023

Making Decisions in AI: Beyond Predictions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a prominent field, and many organizations are eager to harness its potential. However, there is a crucial aspect that often gets overlooked: the decision-making process. After more than 10 years of working in AI, I firmly believe that instead of focusing solely on predictions, we should prioritize how AI can […]

Written by on Jul 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence in Real Estate

While many industries have benefited from Artificial Intelligence, Real Estate is essentially a virgin territory to apply AI. This blog post will show you how you can transform Real Estate with AI, the key consumers of these solutions, and the challenges the industry faces in its adoption. Suppose you are running a Multiple Listing Service, […]

Written by on Feb 7, 2023

Insights from UPTEC NON STOP

Last month, we participated in UPTEC NON-STOP, an event celebrating the 15th anniversary of UPTEC. UPTEC is the Science and Technology Park at the University of Porto, where businesses and academia meet to exchange ideas. During the event, local startups incubated at UPTEC (NILG.AI included), and French startups promoted by Accelerateur M pitched their business to […]

Written by on Nov 7, 2022

Turning classes into inputs

Let’s face it, we all have worked on an ML project where we had to predict a ridiculously high number of classes. Large enough to make the number of observations per class into an embarrassingly small subset. Most people model these tasks as a multiclass classification problem where, for each input observation, we must predict […]

Written by on Sep 22, 2022

A new era has arrived for NILG.AI

Happy birthday! Today is NILG.AI’s fourth anniversary. Happy birthday to us! For most humans, birthdays are a synonym for getting older and leaving the good days of the youth behind. For companies, they are a moment to reflect on everything we achieved, recognize how far we have come, and envision how far we will go. […]

Written by on Sep 5, 2022

2018, …, 2021, 2022! A review of our path

December and January are the months where we meditate about the path we just covered and the one we are discovering. Below, you will find a coarse picture of our path. Although it hasn’t been a flat straight path, its direction hasn’t changed. We keep committed to building a knowledge-driven reliable ecosystem to make AI […]

Written by on Jan 28, 2022