“Could you create a handsign recognition model which we can use to teach High School students a bit more about A.I. in a fun way?”This is the question a few colleagues asked a couple of weeks ago, and ofcourse, the only real response here could be YES! I was immediately enthusiastic and started working on […]

A little while ago we started with our second Project Friday; once a month (or so) we’ll lock some colleagues in a room with a couple of beers and a fun project. This project: give a drone a brain and an eye, so we can call itand make it do stuff for us. Why do we […]

Ik, de wiskundige Piet A. Choras, zat tot voor kort onterecht vast voor overfitting en was mijn ontsnapping aan het plannen, ik kwam er iteratief achter dat ik het niet alleen kon en heb hulp ingeschakeld. Teams van analisten hadden een middag de tijd om mij te helpen te ontsnappen uit de Penitentiaire Inrichting (π) door (data) […]

De jaarlijkse hackathon van The Analytics Lab en Cmotions is gewonnen door de ANWB. Voor de derde editie van dit evenement werd de Atoomclub in Utrecht omgedoopt tot een ware escaperoom.Tijdens deze escaperoom hackathon draaide het om het bevrijden van Piet A. Choras, die vast zit vanwege overfitting in ‘Penitentiaire inrichting (inderdaad, Pi) De Atoomclub’. […]

Last year we started with our R Experience at the University of Groningen. Where we taught Marketing and Marketing Intelligence students not only the basics of R and RStudio, but also how to perform data preparation and how to use different modeling techniques. At the beginning of the five courses none of the students ever […]

A few weeks back there was the Cambridge Analytica Scandal at Facebook, where the consultancy company collected data of around 87 million Facebook accounts in order to trying to convince them to vote for Trump. According to The Washington Post Cambridge Analytica was able to access the data because 270k users downloaded an app and thereby gave access to […]

For our second Meetup about putting Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to practice, we were very happy to welcome Gerard Verbeek and Erwin Konink from Luminis and Matthijs van der Kroon from Primed.IO.Together they entertained the forty-man audience with their interesting stories. Gerard and Erwin told us how they simulated a training environment for their self-driving cars. They use a genetic algorithm to train an entire […]

Het is weer tijd voor onze jaarlijkse The Analytics Lab Hackathon! Dit jaar nodigen wij je uit voor onze Escape Room, waar je de heer Piet A. Choras kan helpen bevrijden. Dit wiskundige genie zit, ten onrechte, vast voor overfitting en heeft jouw hulp hard nodig om te ontsnappen. Op vrijdag 20 april 2018  (van 14:00 tot […]

We proudly present the video of our first The Analytics Lab Meetup! It took us some time, but it was definitely worth the wait (as far as we’re concerned, but please decide for yourself).