Deep Dive Archive

• 29.10.2025
• Deep Dive

The Enemy Within: Data Poisoning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly susceptible to targeted attacks. It is no longer just IT infrastructures that are targeted by malicious…

• 23.10.2025
• Deep Dive

Flagged by the Algorithm

Flexible payment company Klarna flagged me for allegedly failing to pay on time for an online order. I had been told that a glitch in their platform…

• 08.10.2025
• Deep Dive

Principles of Data Visualization

After reading the headline you might think: Why is this relevant? Why should I care about that? You may be used to working with Excel and thus with…

• 04.08.2025
• Deep Dive

LLM Fine-Tuning

There are many ways to tailor the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs) to your needs. One of the simplest and most common methods is through…

• 03.07.2025
• Deep Dive

From RAG to GraphRAG

ChatGPT conquered the world in a heartbeat, reaching 1 million users within just five days in 2022, bringing Large Language Models (LLMs) into the…

• 17.06.2025
• Deep Dive

An Intro to RAG

“Sounds plausible – but it’s wrong.”

This is what many users frequently conclude when relying on answers from Large Language Models (LLMs). While…

• 05.06.2025
• Deep Dive

Agentic RAG

For a company, being competitive nowadays means to innovate. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enabling this at unprecedented speed. Of particular…

• 21.05.2025
• Deep Dive

Model Context Protocol in the Spotlight

The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced in November 2024 by Anthropic, is a dedicated effort to advance LLM application architectures by…

• 07.05.2025
• Deep Dive

AI Agents for Fraud Detection

In the banking sector, financial losses caused by fraud have risen sharply in recent years — in Germany alone, they amount to tens of billions of…

• 16.04.2025
• Deep Dive

Chatting with Tables

In today’s data-driven world, businesses rely heavily on tabular data to make informed decisions. From machine data to sales figures and supply chain…

• 10.04.2025
• Deep Dive

GDPR meets AI Act

Despite the shifting political landscape shaping the future of AI Governance trajectories, established regulatory frameworks remain highly influential…

• 09.04.2025
• Deep Dive

Agentic AI: Putting your Data to Work

In the modern business world, data is a driving force for success. Companies collect, analyze and use vast amounts of data to optimize their processes…

• 28.03.2025
• Deep Dive

AI Value: A 4-Step Guide to Business Impact

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds enormous potential - but many companies are still struggling to utilize it. Too often, what’s missing is a clear,…

• 20.03.2025
• Deep Dive

Understanding Prompt Injection

Imagine an LLM that automatically generates customer responses - but due to a data leak vulnerability, it suddenly reveals confidential company…

• 12.03.2025
• Deep Dive

Understanding the Architecture of Agentic AI

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) - particularly in the areas of generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) - is…

• 26.02.2025
• Deep Dive

ISO/IEC 42001

AI is reshaping industries and redefining business strategy—but who’s keeping it in check? With AI driving innovation at an unprecedented pace,…

• 19.02.2025
• Deep Dive

UX & AI: Successfully Designing Human-Centered (Agentic) AI Products

With the rise of ChatGPT, awareness of AI has spread throughout the country, reaching even our grandparents' living rooms. However, for older…

• 28.10.2024
• Deep Dive

AI Solutions Leveraging Foundation Models

Foundation Models (FMs) are large pre-trained AI models that can adapt to various tasks, simplifying development of AI solutions. The pre-training is…

• 09.08.2024
• Deep Dive

Better Lotto-Numbers with CNNs

Using Convolutional Neural Networks in a betting use-case won’t make you a millionaire – but it will certainly help you to lose (much) less in the…

• 26.07.2024
• Deep Dive

Why we need Data Product Management

“How can we effectively create value from our data?” Many organizations ask themselves this and similar questions when dealing with their data. The…

• 24.06.2024
• Deep Dive

Why the Future is Agentic

Since the breakthrough of ChatGPT in November 2022, Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm. Applications…

• 28.02.2024
• Deep Dive

LLM Explainability: Why the "why" is so important

“Explainable AI” (XAI) is crucial for understanding the decision-making logic of highly complex AI models such as LLMs.

Suppose you have applied…

• 06.02.2024
• Deep Dive

Fine-Tuning the CLIP Foundation Model for Image Classification

With ChatGPT, Large Language Models (LLMs) have jumped at the center stage of public attention. These models are pre-trained on massive amounts of…

• 01.12.2023
• Deep Dive

XAI Navigator: Find the method that makes your AI model more interpretable

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance and play an increasingly significant role in our lives, the need for explainable AI (XAI) has…

• 09.08.2023
• Deep Dive

Deadly Triad in Reinforcement Learning

In our previous articles, we have introduced the basics of RL and explored its different business applications. To delve deeper into the inner…

• 18.07.2023
• Deep Dive

Reinforcement Learning: Algorithms in the Brain

Our blog articles usually focus on business use cases and the analysis of business data. However, in this article, we would like to take a different…

• 28.06.2023
• Deep Dive

MLOps Platform: Building, Scaling and Operationalising

In the previous article, we saw how important it is to get involved with MLOps at an early stage. MLOps platforms help to reduce manual steps,…

• 07.06.2023
• Deep Dive

Reinforcement Learning: Example and Framework

In this article, we aim to bridge the gap between a basic understanding of reinforcement learning (RL) and solving a problem using RL methods. The…

• 16.02.2023
• Deep Dive

Explainable AI - Methods for explaining AI models

Explainable AI (XAI) is currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of AI. Developments such as the European Union's AI Act, which makes…

• 26.01.2023
• Deep Dive

Why, AI? The Basics of Explainable AI (XAI)

People can easily explain most of their actions: we cross the street because the light is green. If we want an explanation for someone else's actions,…

• 26.10.2022
• Deep Dive

How to deal with missing values

In our work as data scientists, we often work with time series data and applications for forecasting. As with all “classic” machine learning projects,…

• 06.10.2022
• Deep Dive

The Effect of Corrupt Labels on Computer Vision Performance

Whether it’s X-rays of lungs or images of the eyeball – medical data sets are never perfect. A small number of misdiagnoses are often accompanied by a…

• 31.03.2022
• Deep Dive

Building A Recipe Recommender System For the Thermomix on Cookidoo – Part 2

In Part 1, I introduced you to the challenge of personalized recipe recommendations on Cookidoo and covered the Model Selection phase. This article…

• 18.03.2022
• Deep Dive

Building A Recipe Recommender System For the Thermomix on Cookidoo – Part 1

In the screenshot, you can see some of our personalized recommendations on Cookidoo, the recipe platform for the smart cooking device Thermomix. In…

• 16.06.2021
• Deep Dive

Robotics in care and industry

What do a machine hall and a nursing home have in common? The answer: both areas benefit from a solution that detects puddles on the floor and can…

• 01.06.2021
• Deep Dive

The Next Stage of the Evolution: What is AI 2.0?

Many companies have only just begun to explore the potential applications of artificial intelligence. Only a few are already fully exploiting the…

• 28.08.2020
• Deep Dive

Authenticity of Van Gogh's “Mill at Wijk” becomes even more likely

The painting “The Mill at Wijk,” which was recently discovered and attributed to Vincent van Gogh, has been verified as authentic using artificial…