Insights
Our perspectives on the world, grounded in data
We know that the best decisions are made only when we have access to the best information, so we are always searching for a better truth. This is a summary of our search:
Recent thoughts
Data4 minute read
A time for reinvention : How crisis spurs innovationCOVID-19 has forever changed our lives, but the world is finding ways to thrive in the face of adversity.
Human-Machine Interaction4 minute read
Alberta’s open identity initiativeATB mobilized the Open Identity Initiative with best in class organizations from across Alberta (and Canada) to explore identification in the age of the digital self and to encourage self-sovereign identity pilots and adoption.
Data5 minute read
Putting the customer first by putting them at the center of everything we do.Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is a model for managing digital identities in which an individual has sole ownership and oversight over how, when and with whom their personal data is being shared. Users who subscribe to this model are able to hold and store all of their information directly on their own device and share for verification without the need of a central aggregator of data (i.e Equifax) - which tend to be highly vulnerable to theft and attack. Each time you interact with an organization to access services or pay for goods, a large amount of personal information is shared with a variety of agents (for example driver's license, Social Insurance Numbers, emails, etc). Not only is this a cumbersome process for you, but the more information you share the greater the risk is for the security of your data.
Machine Learning5 minute read
Reimagining Redundancy in a collaborative real-time machine learning systemRedundancy in the software and information domain used to mostly be about the system’s fault tolerance. Fast forward to present day, however, and the increasing availability and affordability of cloud computing has changed many design paradigms and has led to the proliferation of software systems running on cloud providers’ “everything-as-a-service” platforms. The former can no longer be vertically-architected and centrally-managed.
Machine Learning15 minute read
Teaching computers to see, read, and understandAdvancing into the future sometimes means diving into the past. When ATB sought to find ways to extract information from a deluge of analog data hidden in decades’ worth of historical paperwork, we taught machines to read - shrinking down years of work into a matter of hours. In this whitepaper, Rhys Chouinard and Tyler Dauphinee of the ATB AI Guild breakdown the process we undertook to develop and test Optical Character Recognition.
Human-Machine Interaction3 minute read
Transactions so slick, you might slipWe learn by doing, and Blockchain technology is something we are \"doing\" a lot of. We’ve changed the way international money transfers leverage Blockchain. Now, we’re building systems for maintaining identity records. But we like to keep it in the community, so we’re also using Blockchain to tackle a very Albertan topic… Oil Settlement Day.