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Unlock Growth with Customer Lifetime Value Prediction

Jul 13, 2026 in Guide: Explainer

Unlock real growth with customer lifetime value prediction. Learn key models, data needs, & implementation roadmaps for strategic results.

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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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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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Thermal Imaging in AI

Abr 24, 2020 in Industry Overview

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the current hottest issues, intersecting many fields of interest. With the dissemination of this concept, the expectations about its potential grew a lot among the society. Some people look at AI as a set of mechanisms that can improve people’s intelligence, increasing the human activities performance, others look at […]

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Embedding Domain Knowledge for Estimating Customer Lifetime Value

Abr 6, 2020 in Technical

As part of the rise of Deep Neural Networks in the ML community, we have observed an increasing fit-predict approach, where AI practitioners don’t take the time to think about the domain knowledge that is already available and how to embed that knowledge in the models. In this blogpost, we will cover how we created […]

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Appendix: Embedding Domain Knowledge for CLV Estimation

Abr 6, 2020 in Technical

This is an appendix to the blog post Embedding Domain Knowledge for Estimating Customer Lifetime Value. We will describe some alternatives we considered for solving the proposed problem, but did not end up being implemented. First, let’s assume we have a pre-trained model for estimating the probability of the target and . Estimating Lifetime Value using […]

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Objectively Estimating Data Quality

Feb 27, 2020 in Technical

In Artificial Intelligence, it is important to measure the quality of the data we are trying to use. For instance, if we want to classify a cervix image according to the degree of cancer, how do we know if that image follows the acquisition protocol and can be used for diagnosing the patient [1] so […]

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AI in healthcare: from disease to society

Feb 11, 2020 in Industry Overview

Artificial Intelligence certainly has an impact on every industry and aspect of our daily lives. One of the hottest topics is the application of AI in healthcare though still mostly in a retrospective (in silico) validation scenario and not on actual large-scale randomized trials. While we work on achieving General Artificial Intelligence (or at least […]

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An AI blog for business and technical people

Ene 23, 2020 in News

At NILG.AI, we worked hard to become an active member of the Data Science community in Portugal, which has played a fundamental role in our initial growth by building an ever-growing network of people and ideas. This AI blog is a new way of giving back to the community by creating a space for continuous […]

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