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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

Building the right team

AA: When you’re hiring and building a team of data scientists and engineers, what do you normally look for in terms of their technical skills and their attitudes? What is it when you’re interviewing someone that makes you think, “Yes, I want them on my team?

SD: There’s no perfect recipe. Everyone’s different.

One of the things I look for is intelligent people, and intelligence is about joining the dots.

You might be faced with somebody who is hypertechnical, which is useful, but then if that hypertechnicality is not linked to appropriate solutions or something that is practicable or will work in a production system, all of that potential is not going to flourish when put in a team.

Part of it is about how rich your life is in general. I find that obviously, businesses take up a lot of time and involve working long hours, but that doesn’t shouldn’t mean that you don’t have side projects...