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AI City Intelligence

Oct 31, 2024 in Use Case

Imagine being able to make better decisions about where to live, where to establish a new business, or how to understand the changing dynamics of urban neighborhoods. Access to detailed, up-to-date information about city environments allows us to answer these questions with greater confidence, but the challenge lies in accessing and analyzing the right data. […]

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Closing Remarks from 2020 and insights of our practice

Dec 30, 2020 in News

, Over the last two years, we have worked intensively to create a reliable ecosystem for developing AI projects. Our long-term objective is to become an incubator for AI projects, ensuring higher levels of success than the industry standards. In our consulting practice as an AI company in Portugal, we face every project with a […]

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Difficult Targets to Optimize: the ROC AUC

Dec 18, 2020 in Technical

In many binary classification problems, especially in domains with highly unbalanced problems (such as the medical domain and rare event detection), we need to make sure our model does not become too biased for the more predominant class.  Thus, you may have heard that accuracy is not a good metric to validate classifiers in unbalanced […]

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Artificial Intelligence at COVID19

Nov 29, 2020 in Opinion

Every aspect of our daily routines was hit by COVID this year, from our work and industries to social interactions. Nine months have passed since we started lockdowns, and the numbers are still increasing. So, in this article we wanted to discuss what we can do with Artificial Intelligence at COVID-19. The general public opinion […]

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Explainable AI in Healthcare

Nov 24, 2020 in Technical

Transparency is of utmost importance when AI is applied to high stake decision problems where additional information on the underlying process beyond the output of the model may be required. Taking the automation of loan attribution as an example, a client that has a loan denied will surely want to know why did that happen […]

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Fighting cervical cancer with Artificial Intelligence

Aug 25, 2020 in Webinar

In case you missed it. You may find below our webinar on the Symposium on Bioengineering 2020 at FEUP. Also, we reply to some answers that we didn’t have time to answer during the talk. Abstract Despite being easily preventable, cervical cancer remains a leading cause of death among women — the main reason behind […]

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A balance between two unbalanced options, representing the potential imbalance an AI algorithm generates
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Fairness in AI

Aug 18, 2020 in Webinar

In collaboration with Data Science for Social Good Portugal, we are excited to announce a groundbreaking series of webinars focusing on AI topics that intersect with the greater social good. Our recent webinar, the second installment in this series, took place on the 29th of July and featured an insightful presentation by Francisca Morgado. She […]

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Applying geospatial data for Machine Learning, with a focus on social good

Jul 16, 2020 in Webinar

In partnership with Data Science for Social Good Portugal, we are launching a series of webinars in AI topics related to social good. The first talk was by Paulo Maia, on the 28th of June, with the topic “Applying geospatial data for Machine Learning, with a focus on social good”. In case you weren’t able […]

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Experiment Management and Reproducible Research

Jul 13, 2020 in Webinar

In this tutorial, we will discuss how can we achieve reproducible data pipelines and research while keeping track of the experiments that lead to reproducible production Machine Learning models. We will go over all the popular tools we use available and do a small demo of how we can use these tools (e.g., DVC, Pachiderm, […]

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A leaking faucet showing a careless management of water sources, typical behavior on fraud detection
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Who is tampering your meters? Fraud detection in Utilities

Jun 19, 2020 in Use Case

Meter tampering is a common threat to the business side of utility services and a public security threat, incurring uncontrolled tweaks that may increase the risk of accidents. So, fraud detection is core for any utility service company. The presence of users that manipulate the network typically translates to an increased service price for the […]

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Detecting Errors in Insurance Claims

May 5, 2020 in Use Case

Insurance codes are used by people’s health plan to make decisions about how much your doctor and other healthcare providers should be paid.  There is some variety of coding systems currently used [1]: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, used by physicians to describe the services they provide. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS),  used by […]

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