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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

Applying graph neural networks

AA: One thing we touched on is the growth of industries’ interest in graph architectures and the use of graph neural networks, for example, in areas such as law enforcement and national security. You can imagine the applications there in detecting criminal networks. What advice can you give organizations, large or small, looking at leveraging graph analytics for the first time, in terms of the data that they’re collecting and storing, the tools they’re using, and the problems they are best suited to solve?

PV: One thing that is potentially a bit annoying when applying a graph representation architecture compared to, say, a convolutional neural network for images is that because the problem is not so rigid, we haven’t reached the point where we can just give you one architecture and say, “This is the gold standard for graph-structured data: you should always use this as the first approach.” Unfortunately, it...