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Creators of Intelligence

By : Dr. Alex Antic
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Creators of Intelligence

By: Dr. Alex Antic

Overview of this book

A Gartner prediction in 2018 led to numerous articles stating that "85% of AI and machine learning projects fail to deliver.” Although it's unclear whether a mass extinction event occurred for AI implementations at the end of 2022, the question remains: how can I ensure that my project delivers value and doesn't become a statistic? The demand for data scientists has only grown since 2015, when they were dubbed the new “rock stars” of business. But how can you become a data science rock star? As a new senior data leader, how can you build and manage a productive team? And what is the path to becoming a chief data officer? Creators of Intelligence is a collection of in-depth, one-on-one interviews where Dr. Alex Antic, a recognized data science leader, explores the answers to these questions and more with some of the world's leading data science leaders and CDOs. Interviews with: Cortnie Abercrombie, Edward Santow, Kshira Saagar, Charles Martin, Petar Veličković, Kathleen Maley, Kirk Borne, Nikolaj Van Omme, Jason Tamara Widjaja, Jon Whittle, Althea Davis, Igor Halperin, Christina Stathopoulos, Angshuman Ghosh, Maria Milosavljevic, Dr. Meri Rosich, Dat Tran, and Stephane Doyen.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Chapter 1: Introducing the Creators of Intelligence

Managing projects

AA: When it comes to project management, how different is managing data analytics projects from managing traditional IT projects?

AD: That’s a good one.

Data is a totally different beast. It’s got a very long life cycle, so you should never handle data like a technology asset. They simply don’t have the same life cycle. Technology assets are really short-lived. Data life cycles are really long. They’ll be here longer than you and I! That’s the first thing.

The second thing is that data requirements should be considered from the start. Traditionally, they're not. People forget it, and then at the end, they say, “Oh. We forgot to scope the data and get the requirements. The application/platform is sitting there, and there’s no data in it.” When you’re anchoring data into your organization as a data leader, one of the areas you need to anchor into is the software development life cycle (SDLC...