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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

The path to data science

Alex Antic: How did you become a leader in the field of data science, and were there any pivotal moments, mentors, or people that inspired you?

Kshira Saagar: As one falls in love, I fell into the data science space. I did not actively pursue data science when I started. There was no such thing as data science back then. It used to be business analytics, data analytics, and stuff like that. If there is one inspiration that I would definitely put a finger on, it would be my high-school math teacher. It was the way he tried to teach us math when we were in our formative stages of trying to figure out what integral calculus is and how it even works! He taught it so beautifully and tried to explain it using physical concepts.

We had this one whole session on statistical distributions and hypothesis testing: he taught us how log-normal works and how to identify the distribution. The growth of hair is a log-normal distribution because it can only start from...