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Nancy Dixon focuses on the people side of knowledge management. Our most effective knowledge sharing tool is conversation. The words we choose, the questions we ask, and the metaphors we use to explain ourselves, are what determine our success in creating new knowledge, as well as sharing that knowledge with each other.

De constructing why ideas spread.

Some of the most interesting examples of journalistic data visualisation come not from newsrooms, but from creative agencies or companies.

A quick trip through time to examine the origins of machine learning as well as the most recent milestones.

How has Mexico moved from 2 cartels in the 1970s to 9 cartels today? That is the question the Mexican website Animal Político wanted to answer when in January 2015 they started to work on NarcoData, a data journalism project that shows the evolution of 40 years of drug dealing in Mexico, home to the most violent cartels in the world.

One of the hottest tools in the market right now: Tableau. You can download Tableau Public for free at: https://public.tableau.com/s/

Every industry is becoming an analytics industry because of the inclusion of data-driven technology. Traditional industries, such as healthcare and finance, are actually purchasing analytic technologies with the intent of becoming digital leaders in their industry. IoT is regarded as a future trend, and according to Gartner, by 2018, six billion connected things will be requesting data support. This requires tools that are future-proofed to handle the mass and types of data that Gartner is forecasting.

"In the next few months, there will be hundreds of millions of Android and iOS devices that are able to provide augmented reality experiences - meaning you'll be able to look at the world through your phone, and place digital objects wherever you look. "

"OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) - by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work - benefits all of humanity. We will attempt to directly build safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome."

"Relying on counterfactual explanations as a means to help us act rather than merely to understand could help us gauge the scope and impact of automated decisions in our lives. They might also help bridge the gap between the interests of data subjects and data controllers, which might otherwise be a barrier to a legally binding right to explanation."

Google is implementing voice activated natural language processing technology - already available across Google products like Android and Search - to all Google Analytics users over the next few weeks.

Installing thousands of bots has taken a lot longer and is more complex than most had hoped it would be. The 'robotics evolution' had stalled where companies try to scale the localised proofs of concept. #ai