Dominik Wittenbeck

Hi guys, continuing my previous experiments, I have now set aside AWS Machine Learning for a while and turned towards the SAP HANA Cloud Platform. SAP HCP also offers Machine Learning capabilities under the label of "Predictive Analysis". I was reading a bit and found out about additional capabilities to the prediction like introspection mechanisms on the models you create within SAP HCP Predictive Analysis like, finding key influencing factors for target figures in your data. This so far is not offered by Amazon's Machine Learning, so it got...

Hi guys, extending my previous article about "Using AWS Machine Learning from ABAP to predict runtimes" I have now been able to extend the ABAP based API to create models from ABAP internal tables (which is like a collection of records, for the Non-ABAPers ;-). This basically enables ABAP developers to utilize Machine Learning full cycle without ever having to leave their home turf or worry about the specifics of the AWS Machine Learning implementations. My use case still is the same: Predicting runtimes of the SNP System Scan based on well...

Happy new year everybody! Today I tried out Amazon's Machine Learning capabilities. After running over the basic AWS Machine Learning tutorial and getting to know how the guys at AWS deal with the subject I got quite exited. Everythings sounds quite easy: Prepare example data in a single CSV file with good and distinct features for test and training purposes Create a data source from that CSV file, which basically means verifying that the column types were detected correctly and specifying a result column.  Create a Machine Learning...

It's amazing how quickly the AI topic develops. In the past few months, I have seens so much new stuff emerging. When I first saw this, I was amazed (happens a lot lately - maybe I am just too easy to motivate ;-). Then I thought: well voice enabled computing isn't new really, I mean all the hotlines do it. So while the Conversion UI basically serves the same purpose as traditional hotline conversation machines, the new thing about  it is really the context based natural language interaction opposed to: request - response that it was in...

What I stumbled across a lot lately is the issue of clearly identifying business problems that are applicable to machine learning, especially opposed to traditional programming solutions... The openSAP course "Enterprise Machine Learning in a Nutshell" does an excellent job in exactly that! I will probably dive much deeper into this topic - many of my companies issues in knowledge management seem to be perfectly applicable to machine learning. Many issues in that field are regarding classification, that enable effective communication of knowlege...