Tag: Data Science

Between 29.11 and 30.11.2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin brought new startups together with investors in the Arena Berlin on the “old continent”. The topics ranged from crypto currencies, artificial intelligence, self-propelled vehicles to social initiatives and innovations to protect the environment and human rights. It was the second TechCrunch Disrupt in the capital and the fifth in Europe. (mehr …)

Based on a current data collection from our company index on April 30, 2018, only 10,775 companies from Germany have modified their data protection declaration in response to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The evaluation indicates that micro-enterprises in particular are struggling to implement the more extensive requirements. Companies with business models in which data and data exchange play a critical role take advantage of the opportunity to proactively adapt their data protection. (mehr …)

Abstract

Assigning industry labels to companies is a manual, costly, slow and error prone process conducted by data providers. In order to solve this problem we developed a fully automated machine learning based industry classification that assigns WZ-2008 labels to companies in no time. Our classifier solely relies on the company purposes, which we extracted from the German company register. (mehr …)