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Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and its applications for SDGs

Kultar Singh

Artificial intelligence (AI) can provide computers with the ability to learn and replicate human intelligence, and have intentionality, intelligence, and adaptability as core qualities. Machine learning (ML) focuses on creating programmes that can make predictions to help the decision-making process and is used widely in optimizing search engines, e-commerce sites.

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Big Data: An Introduction and Application in the Social Sector

Kultar Singh

Big data, as the name indicates, signifies a large set in the range of at least one terabyte of unstructured and structured data. The large set of data makes it difficult to handle with traditional methods. Instead, a unique set of techniques and algorithms are needed to explore trends and patterns for decision-making

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COVID-19 will make Data Science a critical necessity for the development sector

Swapnil Shekhar & Kaamila Patherya

The outbreak of COVID-19 has put the global community of evaluators at an interesting, almost paradoxical, juncture. While the need for data and insights is most critical at this point to respond to the public health crisis, collecting this data is going to be now, and henceforth, more challenging than ever

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