A friend I were chatting this afternoon about the impact on the role of data scientists from automated machine learning/AI products like AWS’s new Sagemaker. There is a real possibility that much of the current work that business-oriented data scientists do – model tuning, optimization, and deployment – will be automated. What’s a data scientist … [Read more…]
Building a solid data foundation is prerequisite to becoming data-driven or intelligence-driven. In a previous post, I outlined the progression to grow into an intelligence-driven company. Many companies will have a hard enough time becoming data-driven, let alone intelligence-driven. I will mainly focus on how to become data-driven. Becoming data-driven is a major long-term commitment, … [Read more…]
This is the first post of a series on how companies can get smarter by using data. It begins with an audacious goal to inspire companies to move beyond the typical approach of building models and reports and allows all of us to explore the idea of the intelligence-driven company. Tl;dr Company decision making has … [Read more…]