In this technical demonstration, we propose a cloud-based Big Data Platform for Social Multimedia Analytics called bBridge that automatically detects and profiles meaningful user communities in a specified geographical region, followed by rich analytics on communities’ multimedia streams. The system executes a community detection approach that considers the ability of social networks to complement each other during the process of latent representation learning, while the community profiling is implemented based on the state-of-the-art multi-modal latent topic modeling and personal user profiling techniques. The stream analytics is performed via cloud-based stream analytics engine, while the multi-source data crawler deployed as a distributed cloud jobs. Overall, the bBridge platform integrates all the above techniques to serve both business and personal objectives.
A digital twin is precisely what its name suggests: A digital copy of a physical object or system—even a human being. It may be a simple concept, but the potential applications are anything but. Through the ongoing collection and exchange of data, a digital twin can simulate and even predict the behaviors and reactions of its physical twin in a variety of conditions, providing invaluable insights to industries ranging from manufacturing to healthcare.
Digital twin technology allows businesses and organizations to test products and processes, study and predict how real-world conditions can affect physical objects and beings, and make well-informed, big-impact decisions with minimized financial and human safety risks. Below, 16 members of Forbes Technology Council share some of the fascinating ways industries and organizations are leveraging digital twin technology.
Anyone with an eye on the business world knows that tech professionals across industries saw their roles and responsibilities take a huge leap forward with the onset of widespread remote and hybrid work in the wake of the Covid pandemic. Even before that, tech leaders and their teams—both those working for tech-focused companies and those in other industries—had already been having an increasingly large impact on the ways their companies operated.
And while changing workplaces and markets are adding new challenges, there are also “evergreen,” ongoing issues that tech leaders will likely always need to wrestle with, even as they help fellow leaders learn to lean on the unique perspective a tech expert can bring to overall business strategy. Below, 16 members of Forbes Technology Council share the new (and ever-present) priorities they’re dealing with and why they’re so important.
Earlier this year, Investible backed Singapore-based SoMin.ai, a deep-tech marketing technology that leverages machine learning to give marketers a better return on their advertising spend investment. The business is led by co-founders Aleksandr Farseev (CEO) and Kirill Lepikhin (CTO), a technical and incredibly savvy duo intimately familiar with the sector they have begun to disrupt.
Traditional marketing approaches are not cost-efficient. It can be difficult for marketers to correlate the money spent on a marketing campaign with revenue from sales (i.e. return on marketing spend). Currently, one way to measure and test advertising campaigns is iterative A/B testing through focus groups. With the introduction of machine learning and natural language processing, there are now ways to derive insights that reflect the wider market and not just select sample sizes. Big data algorithms now have the capability to scrape data from user-generated content (e.g. what consumers have liked on Instagram) and use it to create an intimate understanding of consumer behaviour.