Machine Learning & AI
in transport and logistics
Frank Salliau & Sven Verstrepen
Oct 17 2017 – 3PL Summit Venlo
Let’s go back to 1983
Jump to 2002
Jump to 2017
More examples...
What is it all about?
What is Machine Learning?
“The science of getting computers to act
without being explicitly programmed” -
Andrew Ng (Stanford/Coursera)
Challenge
Recognize dogs in images
What a human sees
DOG NOT A DOG
What a computer sees
??? ???
What do we need?
TRAINING DATA
Labeled training set (dog/not dog)
> 1000 images
Untrained Neural Network
Training phase
DOG (1)
NOT DOG (0)
Unlabeled image Trained Neural Network
Prediction phase
87% DOG
13% NOT DOG
Why is this booming now?
What are the drivers?
(BIG) DATA
Byte
Byte : one grain of rice
Credits: David Wellman, http://www.slideshare.net/dwellman/what-is-big-data-24401517
Kilobyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte : Blankets Manhattan
One ByteExabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte : Blankets Manhattan
Exabyte : Blankets west coast states
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte : Blankets Manhattan
Exabyte : Blankets west coast states
Zettabyte : Fills the Pacific Ocean Zettabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte : Blankets Manhattan
Exabyte : Blankets west coast states
Zettabyte : Fills the Pacific Ocean
Yottabyte : A EARTH SIZE RICE BALL!
Yottabyte
Byte : one grain of rice
Kilobyte : cup of rice
Megabyte : 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte : 3 Semi trucks
Terabyte : 2 Container Ships
Petabyte : Blankets Manhattan
Exabyte : Blankets west coast states
Zettabyte : Fills the Pacific Ocean
Yottabyte : A EARTH SIZE RICE BALL!
Hobbyist
Desktop
Internet
Big Data
The Future
1 Yottabyte
1 Xenottabyte
1 Shilentnobyte
1 Domegemegrottebyte
1 Icosebyte
1 Monoicosebyte
Where does all this data
come from?
The Power of the Crowd
Supervised Learning
Regression
Classification
Unsupervised learning
Reinforcement Learning
Deep Learning
Google Deep Dream
(sometimes nightmare)
Getting started
CRISP Methodology
Exploratory
Iterative
Quality of data: Garbage In Garbage Out
Multi-disciplinary team
D3.js - Open Source
Examples in Transport & Logistics
IoT in transport -
“Transpharma Express Route”
Sven Verstrepen
sven.verstrepen@ahlers.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/svenverstrepen
Head of Supply Network Innovation & Analytics
Frank Salliau
Independent Data Scientist & Machine Learning Expert
http://www.mentat-it.be
https://be.linkedin.com/in/franksalliau
frank.salliau@mentat-it.be

20171017 3PL Machine Learning & AI in Transport & Logistics

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