Cole Howard

Machine Learning Engineer

Cole Howard is Machine Learning Engineer at Digits, where he designs predictive systems across the ledger and payment systems.

Prior to Digits, Cole build machine learning systems for the recruiting industry at Talentpair. He also designed recommendation systems for Dark Horse Comics.

He is also co-author of Natural Language Processing in Action.

Latest articles by Cole Howard

AI Assisting Accountants with Zero-shot Machine Learning

Using a machine learning model to classify an object (be it text, image, tabular data) with a label that the model has never seen before, Zero-Shot Classification, seems like an impossible task.

AI ChatGPT for Accounting: How Digits is using Generative Machine Learning to transform finance

In our previous blog post, we introduced how we use similarity-based machine learning for accounting use cases. In this blog post, we will focus on how we use generative machine learning at Digits.

AI Assisting Accountants with Similarity-based Machine Learning

Early in 2022, Digits released Boost to help accountants save time by automating their work. Boost instantly spots inconsistencies in their client's ledger. Every second, Digits sifts through every single transaction and performs a deep analysis. Digits' Boost alerts accountants if it finds errors like transactions in unexpected categories and suggests categories for transactions with missing categories.