EPISODE · Aug 7, 2018 · 1H 21M
#15 Tony Laing - General Manager Analytics & Data Services
from Data Futurology - Leadership And Strategy in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science · host Felipe Flores
In this episode we speak with Tony Laing who is the General Manager of Analytics & Data Services at Auto & General. We talk about: - what is the ‘nuts and bolts’ of analytics - what is the data supply chain required in organisations for the delivery of analytics/ML solutions - how to deliver quick wins and strategic projects concurrently - the journey to add significant value in an organisation through analytics - what questions to ask executives to kickstart their data science journey - why is there so much turnover in data science - why data preparation and model building is only 20% of the job - what type of model is the best to drive commercial outcomes - whether ML applied in specific domains is AI or not - the art of data preparation, increases in computing power and automation of data science - what is “the knife fight” of data science and what type of companies can benefit the most Show notes: https://www.datafuturology.com/podcast/15 Tony is based in Brisbane, Australia
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In this episode we speak with Tony Laing who is the General Manager of Analytics & Data Services at Auto & General. We talk about: - what is the ‘nuts and bolts’ of analytics - what is the data supply chain required in organisations for the delivery of analytics/ML solutions - how to deliver quick wins and strategic projects concurrently - the journey to add significant value in an organisation through analytics - what questions to ask executives to kickstart their data science journey - why is there so much turnover in data science - why data preparation and model building is only 20% of the job - what type of model is the best to drive commercial outcomes - whether ML applied in specific domains is AI or not - the art of data preparation, increases in computing power and automation of data science - what is “the knife fight” of data science and what type of companies can benefit the most Show notes: https://www.datafuturology.com/podcast/15 Tony is based in Brisbane, Australia
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