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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

Becoming data-driven

Let’s touch on another question. There are high failure rates for data projects in the industry, so we need to think smarter. Say you were to work with an organization just starting its journey. It says it wants to become data-driven: it has data, but it doesn’t really understand how to derive insights. In general, how would you advise it to commence its journey in terms of building its internal capability?

No matter which methodology you use, you need to invest in people, culture, technology, and a certain hierarchy and structure. Do you have any advice on how to commence the journey?

NVO: It would depend on a lot of things because if you focus on the problem, then you need to really try to solve it however you can. You should take into consideration the budget you have, the time you have, and what the desired outcomes are, and that’s all part of the problem.

So, many companies nowadays try to gather as much data as they can. They...