Summary:  If you have committed to data and analytics as strategically important to your business, should you have a Chief Data Officer (CDO) or a Chief Analytics Officer (CAO)?  What’s the difference and what’s the trend?

As predictive analytics has increasingly penetrated companies and become a proven strategic…

Summary:  Here are our 6 predictions for data science, machine learning, and AI for 2018.  Some are fast track and potentially disruptive, some take the hype off over blown claims and set realistic expectations for the coming year.

It’s that time of year again when we do a look back in order to offer a look forward.  What…

Summary:  As a profession we do a pretty poor job of agreeing on good naming conventions for really important parts of our professional lives.  “Machine Learning” is just the most recent case in point.  It’s had a perfectly good definition for a very long time, but now the deep learning folks are trying to hijack the term.  Come on folks.  Let’s make up our minds.

As a profession we do a pretty poor job of agreeing on good naming conventions…