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How to train a language model from scratch without any linguistic knowledge

25 November 2020 In this article, Amale El Hamri, Senior Data Scientist at Artefact France explains how to train a language model without having understanding the language yourself. The article includes tips on where to get training data from, how much data you need, how to preprocess your data and how to find an architecture and a set of hyperparameters that best suit your model.

How did we put our sales forecasting solution for croissants into production?

25 november 2020 At Artefact, we are so French that we have decided to apply Machine Learning to croissants. This first article out of two explains how we have decided to use Catboost to predict the sales of “viennoiseries”. The most important features driving sales were the last weekly sales, whether the product is in promotion or not and its price. We will present to you some nice feature engineering including cannibalisation and why you sometimes need to update your target variable.

Interview: Helping HomeServe better respond to home emergencies with AI

24 November 2020 This October, Artefact hosted a webinar with home insurance company HomeServe to discuss how speech analytics is helping the company improve its customer experience and boost business performance. In these extracts, Mickael Loreau, Innovation and Products Director at HomeServe, chats with Artefact Data Consulting Director Matthieu Myszak and Hanan Ouazan, Director – Data Science VP, about the progress they have made so far.

Why brands need to build more diverse social media strategies

29 October 2020 This summer, big brands boycotted Facebook over allegations it was profiting from hate speech — putting many smaller brands under pressure to follow suit. To avoid such difficult decisions in future, smaller brands should start building more diverse social media strategies says Jack Harrington, Paid Social Manager at Artefact UK.

Data platform 2.0: accelerating development with data governance as code

28 October 2020 Data platforms have revolutionised how brands store, analyse and use data — but to use them more efficiently they need to start embedding data governance as code, writes Justine Nerce, Data Consulting Director, and Jean-Baptiste Charruey, Manager Data Engineering, at Artefact.

How AI can help brands discover consumer microtrends

16 October 2020 Lockdowns have strengthened the influence of online prosumers – people who consume but also produce their own products. To stay ahead of these ‘microbrands’, marketers can use AI to predict the next craze, says Cyril Fekete, Consulting Partner at Artefact.

How brands can finally put an end to ‘dirty data’

12 October 2020 Too many marketers are still relying on inaccurate first-party data. In this article, Joachim Sontag, Consulting Director at Artefact Germany, explains how brands can clean up their dirty data’’, build a connected data loop, and future-proof their data architecture.

Why TikTok has come of age during the COVID crisis

21 September 2020 As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the customer relationship, TikTok provides an engaging platform to reconnect with a new generation of customers. Arnaud Marro, Head of Social Media Advertising at Artefact, explores the rapid growth of the video sharing app.

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