Top 15 Applications of Machine Learning on Twitter

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We know machine learning is being used to do a whole lot of things from spam filtering to self-driving cars.

15 applications of machine learning

Following are ML applications that have become newsworthy on Twitter over a duration of one month. Our favorite is automatic multimedia tagging (duh! which editor wouldn’t like that!?).

1. Sepsis (Hospital’s silent killer) detection

Using machine learning for real time understanding of patient safety risks via @maxwele2

2. Multimedia Content Scaling

Automatically tagging multimedia using AI would make searching for content so much easier. via @AnujRajbhandari

3. Making roads safe

Using machine learning to make zebra crossings safer (caveat: as long as onus not on peds & cyclists to change) via @AlixKroeger

4. Managing Retail supply chain

Manufacturing has been using #AI for some time, it is really now just starting to spread to retail supply chain. via @PaaSDev

5. Tracking and surveillance for law enforcement

Is part of the future of #journalism big-data analysis? EG using Machine Learning & data to uncover hidden stories? via @LeonLidigu

6. Identifying cancers through gene study

Using machine learning algorithms to identify genes essential for cell survival. via @dobebig

7. Designing animal product substitutes

The Not Company (NotCo) is using machine learning to create vegetarian substitutes for animal products. Via @MarinaSpindler

8. Improving crop yield

Phenotyping: Using Machine Learning for Improved Pairwise Genotype Classification Based on Root Traits. via @lukelliw

9. Rapidly discover new drug treatments for diseases

Very cool approach to using machine learning to find new therapies. via @HighResBio

10. Engineering wood

Materialize.X is using machine learning to disrupt the $300B engineered wood industry. via @prafiles

11. Profiling voters

Using machine learning to profile German party voters. via @HalukaMB

12. Facial Recognition

Apple is using machine learning for Face ID. via @VentureBeat

13. Managing e-commerce backend

Amazon has big plans for using machine learning to improve their supply chain. via @boxtoninc

14. Insurance pricing

Using machine learning for insurance pricing optimization via @Ronald_vanLoon

15. Code free accounting

Rod Drury on using machine learning and AI for code free accounting. via @DamiaanvZ

What is your favorite use case for machine learning?

Aarthi Kumaraswamy

Managing Editor, Packt Hub. Former mainframes/DB2 programmer turned marketer/market researcher turned editor. I love learning, writing and tinkering when I am not busy running after my toddler. Wonder how algorithms would classify this!