An Upside to Fake Data
February 2, 2018
We never know if “data” are made up or actual factual. Nevertheless, we read “How Fake Data Can Help the Pentagon Track Rogue Weapons.” The main idea from our point of view is predictive analytics which can adapt to that which has not yet happened. We circled this statement from the company with the contract to make “fake” data useful under a US government contract:
IvySys Founder and Chief Executive Officer James DeBardelaben compared the process to repeatedly finding a needle in a haystack, but making both the needle and haystack look different every time. Using real-world data, agencies can only train algorithms to spot threats that already exist, he said, but constantly evolving synthetic datasets can train tools to spot patterns that have yet to occur.
Worth monitoring IvySys at https://www.ivysys.com/.
Stephen E Arnold, February 2, 2018
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