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#FridayFeeling: 6 Principles Protecting Your Job from AI & Robots
In this episode, learn who’s most likely to lose their jobs to robots and AI, and what the six fundamental principles of great customer experience are. By embracing the six principles, you’ll be less likely to lose your job to a robot. Watch the video for details.

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In this episode of Friday feeling

I was at the local fast food restaurant the other day

and went to the drive thru ordered

two burgers and fries for my kids. And it took 14 minutes now these were not complex orders This was number eight number number two on on the menu so pretty canned orders and they’re not known for me burgers fresh.

So

I took 14 minutes and there were no was one of the car in front of it at the drive through.

And the restaurant itself was relatively on ground. There’s like four or five dinars that I could see from the windows. And yeah, 14 minutes. By the time I actually got my

order, there were cars lined up around the entire franchise. And wow, it took a really, really long time

for two burgers.

When you think about

where companies are going to want to use artificial intelligence and robotics and robotic process automation. And all these things.

It is it follows the same rules as all essentially all b2b marketing, right? Which is save money, save time, make money, or prove the value of someone or something. When you have a customer experience that is mediocre or poor.

That is the first candidate for replacement.

Because saving money is fine. Saving Time is better. Because in this in the world we live in now time is is more valuable. Well, the money but making money is the most important when you look at how companies are judged, particularly on Wall Street, they are judged on their ability to make money to the ability to crank out revenue.

And

some of that is cost savings. Absolutely. But a good chunk of that is focused on our customers getting what they want

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has a great saying says focus on what does it change what doesn’t change, particularly in in an example like this, the restaurant example is that customers want faster, they want cheaper. And then what better, fast, cheap, good, faster, cheaper, better, is is timeless. When you look at what has made Amazon successful, faster, cheaper, better,

where humans will lose jobs is if they are not faster, cheaper, better.

So in the context of this fast food restaurant,

they weren’t faster. That’s for sure. I mean, 14 minutes for two burgers is it is a fairly long wait particular for the drive thru line.

They are cheaper because it’s it’s a fast food chain. And the service was not better

The service was certainly I would describe it as

So where will this company optimize more faster means taking more slow humans out of the mix and replacing them with faster robots. We already see this at some fast food restaurants. Some fast food restaurants have things like kiosks and mobile apps where you can order ahead and there’s no human taking in the order at all. It’s the the customer specifying it. And while the customer individually may be slower to order, then human pushing buttons on the screen. The customers got to push buttons on the on a similar screen on their phone or on a on a big kiosk. It shifts the burden of time to the customer. And the customer feels like they’re more in control.

So that sort of front end job starts to be reduced

cheaper.

There are some operational things that could be done to make it cheaper for the most part, it’s already pretty food, but better

when the customer experience when when what the human is delivering to the another human is is certainly an unfriendly

a robot is at least courteous even if it’s fake courtesy. And when every time I I talked to one of my smart assistants they always say you know thank you where you’re welcome or something like that

they don’t mean it you know, it doesn’t make this little smartest feel better when I say thank you. And it says you’re welcome. It’s a it’s a transactional conversation with no actual empathy or depth to it. But at least it remembers at least it remembers to do the thing and it does the thing flawlessly if emotionless Lee

thing about customer experience as a scale, a bar a

set of bars, right? There’s terrible, mediocre good, great, great is not in danger from AI great is not in danger from robots. Because part of the customer experience is that greatness

is is going to a restaurant and having the front desk person the the concierge or or the waitstaff recognize you and say hey how you doing good to see you again haven’t seen in a while, the sushi restaurant but I go to nearby, they remember being my kids. I mean, so remember names, but they remember us. Same for the Korean restaurant. I go to the remember who we are. And they are generally pleasant.

So there’s good or great customer experience. When you have mediocre or terrible customer experience. That’s a candidate right there. That’s

that’s a candidate right there for replacement because the robot and the machines can deliver a mediocre,

guaranteed mediocre experience,

it will be bloodless, it will be emotionless, it will be satisfactory, but when but when satisfactory is a step up from terrible

customers are going to choose satisfactory even if there’s not a human involved.

So think about those dimensions, right? customers on the company’s on the b2b side want to save money, make money, save time or prove value. And on the consumer side, customers want faster, cheaper, better,

if you’re not delivering on the b2c side with faster, cheaper better

your your candidate for replacement and the more things you don’t deliver on, the faster that job is going to go away.

If you are delivering fast

and your cost effective and the experiences terrific experiences noteworthy, then you Your job is reasonably safe.

On the b2b side, if you’re not saving money, saving time and making somebody money

you’re in trouble, right. Marketing automation and, and sales CRM, automation chat bots and things. If they can deliver

me make money faster, or save time faster. That job where at least that task will go to the machines. And that’s okay. One of the things I think is interesting is looking at

looking at the way people behave. There’s a company called momentum machines that has a burger machine now in San Francisco as massive 14 foot machine that makes custom burgers to order five minutes from order to to fresh burger, guaranteed five minutes because machines making him

and what do the humans do? Well, they actually get a chance to deliver the food and talk to customers. And so that relationship building is where they spend their time now, as opposed to flipping the burger and taking forever to to get a trio.

So as long as again, as long as you’re focusing on faster, cheaper, better. And for the human side. As long as we focus on better we have jobs.

So think about that.

If you’re thinking and you’re concerned about who’s going to get the jobs replaced. are you delivering faster, cheaper, better in the end customer experience? are you delivering make money, save money or save time on the business to business experience. If you’re no matter what side of house you’re on, if you’re not delivering those unchanging things, figure out how to pivot so that you are because that’s the only way you protect the work that you do and the employment that you have.

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September 28, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Are You Ready for Data Science?
Today’s question comes from nearly everyone who’s interested in doing business with Trust Insights, my company:

“How do we know we’re ready for data science/AI/machine learning?”

The answers aren’t technical as much as they are attitudinal. Watch this video to learn who’s ready and who’s not.

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In today’s episode, a question asked by a number of people actually, typically as part of the input process for when they’re looking at doing the data science project with my company trust insights. The question is, how do you know that you’re ready for data science and machine learning or artificial intelligence? And there are a number of answers to this

to start there are with classical measures of readiness. Certainly, on the vendor side, IBM pioneered the what’s called the band framework back in the 60s, which is, you know, budget authority need timeframe Do you have budget, you have the authority to make decisions to have a defined needing you have it define the timeframe, but that’s more for like specific projects, though, the neat part is important is Do you have an actual need to have a problem that you need to solve the bigger issues? The bigger questions to answer is our one Do you have the the the data infrastructure for such a project? Do you have a strategic outcome that you want? And most importantly, are two attributes, I think, to personality attributes of you, and have your executive team and all that stuff.

Number one, are you curious? Do you want to know the answer? In a lot of companies? There are people who are in curious, you’re like, just Just get me something that tells me this answer.

Some of the worst abuses I’ve seen to this are in market research, where someone will commission a market research from say,

Get me a survey, get me findings that reflect the answer that I want. That is the height of in curiosity, it is unethical. In cases it may be illegal, and it is clear that attitude is one in which you’re not ready for data science. You’re not ready for machine learning, you’re not ready for artificial intelligence, because what you will create will at best, be garbage worst be actively dangerous to your company. If you have an answer that you want to get like, I want I want the I want you to tell me that give me 8% growth for the next year, five years. It’s not how that works.

So being curious, being legitimately curious, I want to know the answer to this was, what will the growth be over the next five years?

What could we do to be more profitable? What would deliver a better health outcome? All these questions that are open ended that say, I would like to know the answer to this curiosity is so important.

And the second

attribute of a company that is ready for data science ready for machine learning, ready for artificial intelligence? is

you have to be comfortable with two kinds of answers. I don’t know. And an answer that you don’t like. The second one and answer you don’t like is also a common thing that market research terms. Look in foreign clients. My friend Tom Webster Edison research says this is you have to be comfortable with an answer. That

wasn’t what you wanted,

right? So you may commissioners today, but you may

like yeah, I would like this to say x, you know, you don’t insist on but it like to say, and then it comes back saying completely the opposite. You’re like,

that’s awkward.

And so being able to be comfortable with that an answer. You don’t like my friend and handling calls and being comfortable with being uncomfortable, you’re out, you get an uncomfortable answer back and you’re like, Okay, how can we interpret this? Or how can we make use of this and still get value out of this answer? The other answer that’s an important one is I don’t know, you may get back and answer that may be the equivalent of I don’t know, or there may not be there there.

Say you commission a, an attribution analysis of your marketing. And what comes back is it’s not clear it’s not clear what the answer is.

And there can be a number of reasons for that dirty data, incomplete data, biased data, there may be, but there may be something in the ingredients that is wrong enough that any answer you get is going to be statistically insignificant or statistically wrong. And thus,

the answer will be I don’t know, I don’t know what the answer is. Your question is because things went wrong in the precursors that that essentially created a flawed answer. An ethical data science firm and ethical machine learning from an ethical artificial

intelligence firm or a practitioner, if you’re working with a person

should

be up front, you’re going to get an answer you don’t like sometimes that’s going to happen, you’re going to get an answer. It’s unclear, you’re going to get no answer at all, sometimes, or you’re going to get an answer like, well, I could have guessed that Well, yeah, of course, you could have guessed that it’s your data, you should have some sense of what’s in your data already. You may not be statistically significant, it may not be correct, but you have a general feeling because you know, your business probably better than any practitioner unless they’ve worked at your company for a number of years, you know, your business and, you know, the human side of the business, the the non quantifiable part of the business and so answers like, I don’t know, or I already knew that or

this is the answer that you weren’t expecting. You’ve got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable with those kinds of answers.

So

those are the meta attributes, the bigger picture attributes that you look for in yourself, in your company, in your colleagues and in your vendors to identify whether or not you are ready for a Data Science Initiative some kind

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September 26, 2018
#FridayFeeling: The End of A/B Testing
A/B testing is a relic of a time when we couldn’t personalize at scale. Find out why A/B testing is going away, what we’re all doing wrong in our thinking about testing, and what will replace it in this video.

#FridayFeeling: The End of A/B Testing
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In today’s Friday feeling I have a feeling we are heading towards the end of a b testing

will explain what I mean

a B testing is

a an idea that

there’s a right answer

that given two choices between a red button, a blue button or a subject line with emoji, or without emoji, that there’s a right answer. Like, this is the answer.

The reality is most A B tests are not. When you look at the data, most A B tests are not like an overwhelming land sites like 99% of this and 1% of this, there’s usually like 6040, maybe 7030 fair amount of time 5050,

when you use something like Google optimized Google optimized will say, Hey, there was no clear answer on this test that happens more than you think

what that means is that

there’s more than one right answer. and that in turn means that a B testing as marketers traditionally approach it, which is, we’ve got to find the right answer. We got to find the

answer. Well know there may be many answers

up until now, up until the last couple of years, we went with a B testing because we wanted to try and optimize for

the answer that was easiest for us as marketers to to do so. Okay, red button versus blue button. Well, 60% of people like the red button. So we’re going to put the red button up

and we’ll hopefully that will get us more conversions.

Okay, what about the people who like the blue button as 40% of them? Do you just flip the burden to 40% of your audience say,

I’m sorry, guys, your choices don’t matter. We’re going with the majority.

Here’s why. I think we’re heading towards the end of a b testing

systems and software

combined with machine learning and automation

give us the ability to create personal profiles and personalization at scale in a one to one way. So if you click on the blue button, we run a test, you click on the blue button, but you don’t click on the red button. We save that information and say, okay, you like the blue button. So let’s make future buttons for you. Blue.

Somebody else who clicks on the red button, we save their profile data,

guess what? Now that person sees

red,

you open subject lines with emojis. Somebody doesn’t open subject lines without emoji.

We save that information. We’ve helped build that profile so that

ultimately you get what you want.

There is no wrong answer. It’s the answers that you like best.

And we can ask for some of those answers. Certainly,

do you prefer red buttons? Or blue buttons? Do you prefer mode? You’re not emoji? Do you like social shares with cute puppy pictures, whatever. The thing is, whatever you you want,

our software should give to you.

And we do this over and over and over again. Until you build a solid profile of what works for you what ads you click on what links you click on,

that’s taking a B testing to its logical conclusion, which is give you what you want

now requires marketers

to think

and say, Well, you know, what, we need to have machinery and, and, and algorithms and support that say, yeah, whatever this person wants, they get within reason. I mean, there’s, we’re not going to, if you sign up for, for example, my personal newsletter, you’re not going to get a newsletter, it’s customized to be entirely Pokemon links, right, even if you love Pokemon, because that’s, that’s not the point of the newsletter. So there are guard rails, but

we should start being able to offer that level of personalization. Our software has to do it. We can’t do it as, as marketers, there’s no way we can do one to one personalization, unless you literally have like two customers, if you only have two customers. And yet, you can do one one personalization very easily. But if you have a mailing list one, five people on it,

you need machinery to do that. But once you do,

then it gets interesting, then it gets then we start being able to engineer systems that can

that can serve the needs of the person and get away from this idea of there is a right answer.

Because every person who

makes a choice is giving us the answers that work best for them.

Now, what else this gives us is a lot more insight, a lot more behavioral insight.

One of the things that a lot of marketers are struggling with right now is like, what do we do in the wake of California consumer privacy law GDPR and this and that, and, you know, we can’t collect this data anymore. And, well, no, you don’t need that data.

And a lot of cases, not for machine learning. One of the greatest quotes I heard from a recent IBM event was that the more specific a piece of data, the less useful it is for modeling,

knowing that my name is Christopher Penn, you can’t build a model on that, knowing that I’m male, knowing that I’m

in my 40s, knowing that I live in the northeast, those are things that are more useful data points because they’re bigger data sets and then can build better models with them.

But even that did is not as interesting is what I do behaviorally. If you sign up for say, a an email newsletter, and you say, I want to see more topics, more content about AI, and I want to see less content about politics.

newsletter software will eventually know what to send, you will send you a version that contains less of one more of the other but now with retargeting audiences and things I can send out and say, Yep, I

I want to make sure that this person

gets has their preferences in the system, or the system collects preferences for them. Behavioral preferences based on what they click on, on what they express.

And now we’ve got a new I know new ebook on politics,

don’t send it to this person, they’re not going to enjoy it,

send it to this person who like people, that’s all they want. And so it’ll help us make more sales and better sales by directing content and goods and things to where people need them. And it’s also free market research. If you set up

trainable machine learning based personalization systems, you get to look at your audience say, Okay, what are they interested in and something See, wow, everybody over here is really, really interested in I don’t know, the internet of things for dairy farms.

And you’re like, well, that’s a substantially

larger portion of our audience than I thought it was going to be. Why is this a thing with our audience now, you know,

now, you know, and I have that market insight, instead of saying, AB test, throw away those people who like dairy farms IoT, because that’s not what we do. Now, you know, now you have that market research. And you can go,

all right, maybe we need to offer

some kind of product or service or something there for those people because they will, they will want it they’re interested in it and the paying attention to it.

So a lot to think about a lot of stuff to think about

personalization one to one marketing with machine learning, doing the heavy lifting for you is the logical conclusion on the end of a b testing. So what we have to do is think differently about is a B testing something we should be doing or it should we be focusing on one to one segmentation I think that’s the future I feel like that’s the future and and a good way to pivot our thinking from the right answer to the answer suits each customer individually. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 21, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Training Social Media Algorithms
Carl asks, “LinkedIn seems like it’s full of spam and junk. Are you getting any value out of it?”

I listened to this terrific episode of This Week in Machine Learning with Sam Charrington and Dr. Romer Rosales, lead data scientist and AI expert at LinkedIn. In the episode, Dr. Rosales gave away the secret to making LinkedIn work for you, and that’s the secret I share in the video.

You Ask, I Answer: Training Social Media Algorithms
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In today’s episode, Carl asks, LinkedIn seems like it’s full of spam and junk, are you getting any value out of it, I listened

to a terrific episode of one of my favorite podcasts in that’s not in marketing this week in machine learning and AI with Sam Jackson, when he

interviewed Dr. Romero solace, who is the lead data scientist and AI expert at LinkedIn. And Dr. Gonzales talked about how LinkedIn algorithm works, it’s fairly straightforward from a machine learning perspective, from a deep learning perspective. And that is that they have a few different outcomes, like three or four different outcomes, and then their algorithm optimize around each of those outcomes. But trying to balance them all it’s it’s was called trade off analytics. So on one hand, they want user engagement. But on the other hand, they want satisfaction reports, user satisfaction reports to be mostly positive, they want people interacting with core parts of the platform, like updating their profile. But they also want companies posting jobs, they want advertisers to run ads, but they also again, want those quality scores for user satisfaction to remain high. So what they’re doing behind the scenes is optimizing for all these different outcomes. Facebook, by the way, works on the very same principle. If you look at the way Facebook displays data, and and what’s going on behind the scenes, it is a deep learning algorithm. And it’s trying to optimize for things like user engagement for those target variables like deep engagement, where someone leaves a comment, rather than just press the like button, because your cat can have a Like button, right,

where you share with annotation, all these social networks are using very similar algorithms. They may be make trade offs differently, Dr. Rosen was wasn’t able, obviously, to comment on what other networks besides LinkedIn, we’re doing him. But on LinkedIn, specifically, the trade offs are balancing that satisfaction with

the the display.

And one other thing that I thought was interesting is the meta value for LinkedIn is delivering as much value to the user holistically as possible. So if you’re not getting value out of LinkedIn, the reason why is that your profile, and by this I mean, you the user on LinkedIn, have not sufficiently trained the machine, you have not sufficiently trained the algorithm to display what you do and do not want out of LinkedIn. I tried this experiment, I listened to this episode over the previous weekend, it’s now Thursday of the following week. And I’ve been following a very simple practice for three minutes a day.

But you know, once in the morning, once around, lunchtime, wants to in the evening, for a

minute each, I scroll through my feed, and I mark hide this,

if for any posts that frankly, I don’t get value out of, you know, on LinkedIn, there’s like, people posting these little motivational quotes don’t get much value that hide this, someone saying my company showing off this thing. Cool,

okay, hide this on Facebook, so and so politician does something silly. Okay, seeing that read the news elsewhere. Hi, this,

the change has been remarkable in just three minutes a day per network. So

nine minutes total a day, because Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. For me personally,

the value I get of LinkedIn is substantially better, I no longer see a lot of that content, like, you know, this, this, this person or this silly thing, I’m training the algorithm, I’m doing active training of the algorithm say, I don’t want to see that stuff anymore. This stuff is not not delivering value. To me, it is it is bad for my user experience, I do the same thing for ads to also like, this ad wasn’t relevant to me. And in just four days, I get a better experience out of LinkedIn, I get a better experience at Facebook, the thing that’s important is that because these algorithms are powered by deep learning, which is constantly readjusting constantly passing data back and forth through the layers of machine learning that power the algorithm, it’s not like you do a bunch of stuff. And then you have to wait a week, a month, a quarter a year for a software engineer to update the product, these algorithms are operating in real time, or in very near real time. So the changes that you make, and the train that you do with them takes effect almost immediately. So it’s important for all of us, as individually users to understand how these algorithms at least conceptually, you don’t have to understand the math behind them, and to train them to provide them data to provide them feedback in in near real time. Yes, this is good. No, this is not good Google search algorithm, by the way, does the exact same thing, these algorithms are not broadly trained, like, Hey, this is the one algorithm that rules all and this is the one the one right type of data show on LinkedIn, they are custom to your profile their custom to you what you want,

you may be the sort of person who loves getting motivational quotes against pretty pictures on LinkedIn. If that’s your jam. Awesome. Make sure you like those posts, hit the like button on them. And you may find, you know, long winded

essentially many blogs on LinkedIn. But to be the pits hide those so and your algorithm or your profile in the algorithm will show you what you want, it will not damage the experience and some other people around you. So you’re not worried about training it and then, you know, nobody gets valuable thank goodness, it’s specific to you and your experience

Google Search operates the same way YouTube operates the same way all of these networks and networks got more than I say, one than 500 million users it’s using deep learning or if it’s not that networks gonna have a massive scalability

problems, and it’s probably place nobody wants to be.

So it’s got more than 500 million users is using deep learning. If it’s using deep learning, it can be trained by you, for you for your use. So invest a few minutes every day, do it for two weeks,

just two weeks, and you will start to see a difference almost immediately. But keep training, keep training and keep training until it is the way you want it to be. And you will find that

it’s a much more pleasant experience. Now,

here’s the catch.

When you train the algorithm, you’re also limiting your worldview, you’re also limiting it to the things that you like. Which means if there’s something new that you don’t necessarily like or dislike, you may not see it in time. So don’t be too restrictive, obviously, stuff that’s just flat out not useful. Like for me motivational quotes on I’m pretty pictures just not valuable to me. So those things are included, hide some other stuff and like and company news, you know what, this one’s not too bad. I’m going to let leave it as is because I still might want to see stuff like that, particularly from relevant companies be be aware of that, especially on Facebook in you know, in your personal use, if you only see and hear the things that you like, you’re going to miss some stuff. Now, that might not be a bad thing depending on how angry certain news makes you but but know that you are intentionally constructing a filter bubble

and you do need to get data somewhere else in order to to retrain and and expand the filter bubble in appropriate ways that that’s a great question, Carl. Interesting question. Because, again, machine learning and deep learning or what’s behind all these social algorithms. Knowing how they work means that you can take advantage of that. As always,

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September 20, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Types of Bias in Machine Learning
Dave asks, “What are some of the types of bias to be aware of in machine learning?”

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In today’s episode, Dave asks, what are some of the major types of kinds of machine learning bias? This is a really, really important question. As we give more control to our machines. As we let them make more decisions in our everyday lives, we need to understand how those machines are making decisions and what basis and those decisions are made on. Remember that the fundamental thing about machine learning is that machine learning is math, right? It’s prediction, its probability based on existing data based on the data that a machine was trained with. And so if there are issues in the data, there will be issues in the predictions, the forecasts and the analyses that it makes. So with that in mind, let’s bring up the four kinds of bias here. Now, these broad categories, and these are machine and data set biases, there’s a whole other category of human biases of things that we do in our own cognitive abilities that create biased outcomes. And that’s separate. That’s a separate discussion,

I would go and actually check out there’s a really good resource called your bias is and it will, it has a whole nice chart and an interactive graphic that you can explore the different types of bias like selection, bias, anchoring, etc, that that are human flaws, human ways that we make poor judgments based on data.

So let’s go through these. The first is intentional bias. This is

this is the most probably

obvious bias it is when I’m a human designs and algorithm to a specific outcome that is biased.

The most well known

example of this was documented by pro publica were a police department put together an algorithm to predict

whether criminals would be would would re offend, would commit additional crimes. And the algorithm was 20%, right, which, you know, you better off flipping a coin, but it predicted African Americans, would we offend it five times the rate they actually did, that was

a clear case where someone just baked their bias into the algorithm itself, they corrupted the software itself.

So that’s the first time the second type of bias is

similar ish, its target bias. And this means that the target population has been the subject of bias. And therefore clean historical data is difficult to obtain. So

imagine, for example, you’re trying to do a longitudinal study of African American healthcare with an intent to predict health outcomes, African American health, your data is essentially corrupted by macro conditions, because African Americans have not received the same quality of health care that

other populations have, the data that you have, even if it is technically correct, still has a bias to it still is not usable

as is, you would have to do an extensive amount of cleaning and you’d have to do you have to take into account so the macro conditions you there’ll be certain after periods of time when frankly, you could not use some of the data because the data simply would be so corrupted by bias, so corrupted by what was happening in the past that you have to throw it out,

you might, for example, need to disregard entire regions of the country, if you were using certain data sets, you might have to even disregard down to the institution or the provider level. So there are there’s a lot of target population bias in in the data out there.

The third one also related is source data. This is where the data source itself is corrupted, or is biased. And that prevents or disrupts our waiting efforts. Now, this is different than the target population. This is the source itself, regardless of population,

because there’s a known bias to it. So really simple example of this one is certain social networks have very specific bias used to them.

If you were, for example, looking at a network like Stack Overflow, guess what, there’s a massive gender bias in Stack Overflow. So if you were using that, to mine information about programming and statistics and software, you’re not getting a gender representative perspective, if you are mining Pinterest, you’re going to get a very specific bias. If you are mining Twitter, you’re going to get a very specific bias and understand and knowing these biases is important, because that does disrupt your waiting efforts. If you are waiting the data to you have to do a lot more work and a lot more rebalancing. And it’s going to take you much more time to do annotations and, and things like that, and markup of the data because the sources itself

are biased. This is one of the reasons why market research is so essential and is not something we can just automate with a click of a button. Because we have to be able to account for biases and ideally prevent

them in the first place from the sources we work with. The fourth type is tool, this tool bias. And

this is when our software itself is unable to process all the relevant types of data. To get the complete picture. Super simple example, in the Instagram API. When you pull data out of the Instagram API, you get the username, you get the description, and then you get a URL to the photo. If your AI system or your machine learning system is ingesting all this text data and making analyses based on it. But you’re not doing any kind of image recognition, you’re missing like 80% of the point of Instagram, if you’re if you’re not seeing the image and you don’t know what’s in the image, you can’t rely on the description, the description of what people put on Instagram photos, sometimes has very little to do

with what’s in the actual photo, one thing people love to do is they’ll they’ll put like a, you know, a little 100 emoji and tag five of their friends in the description. And it’s a picture of a boat, right?

So you if you don’t have that image data, then your tool is essentially creating a bias is creating a bias in the data that says you’re not accommodating all the different types of data, if you are doing social network analysis, very, very important that you’d be able to do that

we see this also in in all sorts of other areas. You can you’ll see it even in things like census data, you’ll see it in political data hugely, because we don’t take into account things like video and audio and stuff, it’s a lot more work and it’s a lot more expensive and a lot more time consuming to accommodate every possible data type or all the relevant major types of data. So keep these four categories in mind intentional target source and tool. This is what’s going to help guide you as to like, are we getting all the right data are we

going to have outcomes in the data that are going to screw up the algorithm and as a result, we will not get clean results or we will get flawed results.

If you are thinking about bias from the beginning. If you are baking bias, assumption and prevention in by design from the beginning of a project, you stand a much better chance of getting a good outcome than if you just kind to throw data in and hope that the machine figures it out. That’s not the way to go. That is that’s going to cause some issues. So keep this in mind. Great question,

Dave. Powerful question and an

important question we need to tackle. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 18, 2018
Win With AI: IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio
The IBM Win With AI Summit was a powerful event for IBM Business Partners and AI practitioners. Watch the video to learn what’s new with IBM Watson Studio and the all-new IBM Cloud Private for Data. If you’ve ever wanted one view of your customer or data management with strong governance built in, you’ll want to learn more.

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In today’s episode it look back at the win with AI summit full disclosure, I am champion of my company is a IBM bridge to business partners. So we do receive financial benefit. If you do happen to buy something from IBM,

the one with AI summit was a combination event. The first half of it was for IBM business partners to understand what was coming down the pike.

And then the second half was sort of a public event where people could could see and hear about some of the use cases. There were two product lines that IBM focused on. And I think both of them have profound positive implications for anyone who is a data driven marketer or well, frankly, for anyone who’s data driven period. The first product line is

Watson studio there have been a number of advances since studio deployed in March. I’ve been using it since March when it was announced at IBM think. And I like studio. It’s a good environment, especially if you want to be using modelers rather than writing code. So one of the main advantages of studio is that if you know the architecture that you’re going after, whether it’s statistical in nature, and we’re using the SPSS modeler, or it is machine learning and deep learning in nature, we using the neural network model as long as you know what you’re doing conceptually, you can drag and drop the pieces of the statistics you want to do

right in the interface. You don’t have to write code and then you just plop the output into the system and feed your data in and it does its thing and you can’t with results, which again is a great way for somebody who doesn’t necessarily know how to

To write code and our or Python to be productive in machine learning, deep learning statistics, etc.

But

most marketers don’t need the full power of public cloud, which is the cloud environment in which Watson studio lives. And, and there are a few quirks in the system here and there, but particularly when you’re moving files in and out, or you’re moving in large amounts of unstructured data.

But one of the major announcements was at Watson’s to us coming to the desktop as a desktop application,

and it will function as a native app, which means that it’s not just a window that goes to the browser version, which is fine with the browser version, but it will actually be full native application with the ability to use files locally, which makes me very happy because again, that’s much faster. You can use it like you with the same ease of use that you’d use a spreadsheet application.

Or that you would use your email on your desktop. And that that’s phenomenal. Because I look forward to being able to roll that out to

to customers to the team at trust insights and to

partners to say, Hey, we built this model using this combination of techniques.

And while the model me proprietary, if everyone’s on the same platform, we can pick the model up and move it around. And even if a customer doesn’t necessarily have studio desktop, because it’s it’s all one code base

will be able to take that model and just give it to them to run in the cloud environment.

The net benefit of this is faster algorithms, faster machine learning models, faster deep learning models, it’s

fewer errors because again, you’re not slinging rock hold you slinging.

abstracting code in in models and

for portability, being a being able to get to answers and and let other people who are not hardcore coders get two answers to. So I think it’s gonna be a major leap forward for the platform. It’s going to also normalize stuff like the data science experience and and make it all one uniform experience which will be good.

The other thing that was really interesting about the event from the Watson studio perspective is that I actually got to sit down with the Distinguished Engineer who built satchel port part of it, which is something that doesn’t often happen and it’s one of the things I love about about working with IBM is that you get to talk to the people who are actually making the product and say, Well why does it do this and

showed the the engineer one thing less the last night and he’s like, Ha.

I shouldn’t do that, give me an email said a book report on this,

which is fantastic. Because we all we want the product to be better. We want the product to be usable by everybody. We want our customers and our clients to be able to use the product as well and and iterate on what we do. So Watson studio a lot to look forward to there. And

again, I’m really looking forward to that desktop app. The ability to to share my work and my ideas with my team and have them makes knowledge just make suggestions but actually be able to jump in and reorder concepts

that way they can spend their time on the strategy and the implementation and not the How do I code this? What’s the function for this? Am I missing a semi colon here?

things that get in the way of right now

the second major announcement

Was

it really was around the they call cloud private for data

which is an abstraction layer for those for those folks who have been in the IBM ecosystem for a while, as developers

and no blue, what we should call blue mix is now just called IBM Cloud. There was a service debuted

two years ago, I think called Blue mix Lyft which said, Let’s take your databases wherever they are, and pick them up and move them into the cloud. And it was a relatively quiet product. And not too many people knew about it.

But what IBM has done since then is convert this thing to this thing called Cloud private for data, which is an abstraction layer that

allows you to have a cloud like environment for your databases, but it doesn’t require you to pick up the move of the data.

basis because for a lot of companies, particularly ones in highly regulated industries, you can’t move your database into the cloud, you are forbidden to do. So

there may be geographic restrictions, they may be security restrictions, and so on and so forth. So wouldn’t it be great to be able to, to have an environment in which you simulate that the benefits of it, the being able to access all of your data at once in one spot, but not have to

not have to deal with the regulations and that’s what cloud private for data promises in the marketing world. There’s this concept and there’s some companies that that do this called a customer data platform. And the idea being that your customer data is everywhere, right? You’ve got social media data, that email data, you’ve got CRM, data, marketing, automation data, you’ve got all this stuff in all these different systems all over the place. And because all the systems are

scattered everywhere summer on premise like your CRM or your P system some of them are in the cloud some of them are not even really databases like you know your Twitter analytics yet Twitter has the base but you don’t

because everything is everywhere you don’t really have a good sense of

your customer right you the the promises called like one view of the customer or a 360 degree view of the customer which has been a popular thing for a number of years

these companies you CBP platforms promised to bring all that in, use their proprietary mix of machine learning data whatever to try and and unify those customer records and

and give you a like, Hey, here’s the thing but

there are issues with obviously regulation with compliance.

With governance with data governance around these systems, and they’re not, they’re not cheap for the ones that are hosted services. And they’re not easy for the ones that are on premise services or, or private cloud services.

I was working with one customer not too long ago, looking at the inner workings of their platform they built themselves

it was a little messy

and it wasn’t working really well. And

what they needed was strong data governance,

the ability to say like, let’s,

let’s set some rules about this data, where it came from, how it can be used, how it should be used, and what the logical outputs are.

What cloud private for data does is essentially that it’s a it’s an essentially it’s an ingestion engine.

It is a unification service that you configure the rules for us a this is related to this

powered by machine learning and and some deep learning because one of the things it does is it tries to do use deep learning to to build semantic relationships between tables so if one table has Chris pan and the other table has Christopher pen

he understands is a semantic relationship between the two they’re they’re closely related and will auto suggest Hayden you should probably link these things together

and

it will also brings in natural language querying. So

if you instead of having to write sequel statements all there’s nothing wrong with sequel statements. I like them.

Your average non technical user is not someone who is fluent in in the sequel language, the structured query language they are good at asking.

Regular questions like how many people signed up for our services yesterday? That would be the kind of question that a business user would ask. And cloud private for data allows you to ask regular normal questions as well as, as see all your data in real time.

What is I think is so powerful about it is the governance you write rules in the system

that govern things like data sovereignty? Where did this data come from? And where is it allowed to go?

What is or is not protected health information, personally identifiable information, sensitive personal information, all the different categories that we have to deal with as marketers and as business people to say, like, yes, we can use this data. No, we can’t use this data. Where can the data transit so

if you are still working on your GDPR compliance, you need to know like Yes, I can.

will permit the state to move to hear from here? No, I will not permit the state of to go here. So for example, if you are working with you folks, people within the European Economic Area, you have a very specific set of rules about what you may and may not do with that data.

And cloud private for data allows you to write those rules. But then it converts those rules into into system policies that you can auto manipulate the data with. For example,

if you are using data for machine learning to better understand the customer and do forecasting and you’ve got this huge data set from the EU

unless the consumer explicitly gave you permission to use that data for machine learning. You have to de identify you have to anonymize it

right now. I can’t think of a single

A customer data platform service that will do that in compliance with the rules but still permit you access to the models in cloud prior for data. You set up the policy, you set the rule. And the rule triggers the software to D anonymize all the personal identifiable columns. And

even with permission list may or may not even allow certain people within your organization, even access to the data. But your data science team or your marketing data team would get the de identified data set. They would not get the raw data set.

And then they could do machine living predictions on stuff that is not personally identifiable like time on page or number of tweet replies, whatever, but they have no idea who the person is. And so the data is then being used in compliance with GDPR and

and still not inhibiting your ability to do business. One of the quotes I heard yesterday which I thought was phenomenal was

the more

sensitive and personal the information is the less useful it is from Sheila me because you’re not you’re not able to draw strong trends and forecasts and predictions on uniquely individual things.

If you had my

my social security number and there is zero predictive power in that number, but knowing that I am

identify as male, that’s a much bigger broader aspect and that is probably a better predictor and my social security number so the less personal data you have

you’re probably better off removing that data anyways so having cloud pirate for data either mascot DNR de identified or or prohibit access to it is going to be a good thing.

And then of course being IBM you can take all the data that you do build in cloud private for data and pass it to things like Watson studio for

That modeling for that advanced machine learning and deep learning, and so

having the to work together, but still, the quote was yesterday move your AI to your data rather than trying to move your data to your AI, move your data, your data, make the I live close to the data.

That’s a important idea because

it lets you and it lets the people who work in your organization, do the analysis where the data lives, not screw up the the data and

really apply that strong governance to it, but

all the identification, the quality of the data,

and so

wrapping up

these two products cloud prior for data, which unifies your data and it’s going to take you some work it’s not a magic wand it will take you some work to get it to get it implemented well, but cloud private data and then Watson studio

Then the Watson machine learning platform and sort of the machine learning engine

really paint a picture of

you being able to take your data

cleanup, manipulate it, prepare it for machine learning, pass it to Watson studio, and then you being able to drag and drop your way to working models. As long as you know you’re doing conceptually, it will save you a substantial amount of time in and then be able to immediately hand that off for business usage.

It’s

the best analogy I can think of is that IBM has significantly declutter your kitchen, right? Instead of having 44 different types of frying pan and that’s 37 spatula. You’ve now got maybe a half dozen of each and

it’s easier to find things it’s easy to do things you do still need to know how to cook

but the kitchen is much neater

The kitchen is much easier to use than it used to be.

So

I extend my thanks to the business partner team to the social VIP Team into the champion team at IBM for having me at the event and for letting me and my my fellow partners and stuff, work with the software

actually do hands on and

let us talk to the people who are building the thing and asked very, very technical questions of them.

And I would strongly recommend that if you are interested in

data unification

if you are interested in machine learning that you try out these services as a registered business partner trust insights is happy to

make whatever introductions need to be made

to an IBM team and will help you build the models if it’s appropriate to do so.

But there’s so much to be optimistic about. There’s so much to be excited about with

where machine learning is going, where AI is going and how much easier it’s getting and how much more accessible it’s getting for everyone, not just for the the super technical folks. So I hope you give it a try. And as always, if you have questions or comments about

this, leave it in the comments on on wherever it is you singles video or reading the transcript to listen to the audio and please subscribe to the YouTube channel, my newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 14, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: The Promise of AI and Data for Marketing
Denis asks, “What is the big promise that AI holds when it comes to data? What types of solutions do you see emerging from this that will help marketers?”

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In today’s episode, Dennis asks, What is the big promise that AI holds? When it comes to data? What types of solutions do you see emerging from this that will help marketers

win? When we think about data and marketing, one of the biggest gaps is that we frankly, aren’t using enough of it. According to a relatively recent statistic by IBM, up to 90% of data within a corporation goes unused. And

there are a lot of marketers who are still what I would call data resistant, they are not doing as much with data as they could be, they have systems that are collecting data, but they don’t really use it, they don’t look at it, they don’t

they don’t use it to change behavior or to to, to improve marketing. Real simple example of this. Yeah, think about just how much information is in Google Analytics? And how much do you actually look at? How often do you look at it, the answers usually are not as much as I should look, and not as often as I should look, right, because it can be overwhelming for some folks who, again, are not living in in their data

more broadly, when you look at the data science lifecycle, and you and you see this,

this rhythm of data, define, ingest, analyze, repair, clean, prepare, augment, explore, compare, predict, prescribed, model, validate, refined, deploy, observe almost every step, and the data science lifecycle has at least some portion of the tasks in it,

that is repetitive work. And anytime you’ve got repetitive work, you’ve got a candidate for robotic process automation, or machine learning, or potentially deep learning, depending on how complex the problem is, and, and the technologies that are available to you.

And so the opportunity for marketers is, as they become more data driven as, as their companies demand that they become more data driven, and that they use machine learning and artificial intelligence to accomplish those tasks. And where the early wins are going to be is all in that first third of the life cycle. When you’re looking at bringing in data ingesting data from multiple sources. A big part of that is identifying where is the date, and there are packages of software, IBM Cloud lift as an example that you can deploy within the enterprise. And it will essentially do digital sniffing around and pull helping you pull data out of heterogeneous incompatible systems and get it at least in one place. The same is true for analysis, repair, and cleaning of data. There are a number of excellent libraries in the various programming languages that do amputation, which is computing missing values, there are anomaly detection libraries that can help you figure out up there are some oddities in this data that we need to clean up. And of course, in data preparation, there are any number of tools that can help you prepare your data for

analysis for use for building models from for in the machine learning realm. And so that’s where that’s where the opportunity is, the opportunity is for marketers really early on is all about how do we get at our data? How do we prepare it for us? And then how do we start building

building solutions with that data

in terms of what those solutions look like for the most advanced marketers, they’re already in place. And those are marketers who either all are also data scientists or, and machine learning specialists or have those capabilities somewhere within their company where the average marketer is going to see benefit is in the various products and services that they already use. Most of

most companies that are in that providing marketing technology are moving in this general direction at at varying speeds. We see some hints of this in tools like Google Analytics intelligence, where if you’ve ever seen the little blue icon in the upper upper right hand corner of the analytics screen, you tap it and you can ask your analytics questions. You see this in Watson Analytics by IBM where you can literally just ask it questions by typing questions into the interface like hey, what makes this work

here we see a tremendous amount of machine learning happening in it’s at the CRM level. So Salesforce with its Einsteins software, we see it with HubSpot and number of its packages. And all these are really about helping us make better use of our data. That is, that is the key if we’re, if we’ve got the data and we’re not using it, we’re missing a massive opportunity to be like owning an oil field and never drilling a well or yet you drilled one well with a spoon and any drinking straw,

it’s not going to go very well.

So those are the solutions that you’re going to see you’re going to see that built into a lot of folks now, where there are going to be gaps is that many of the point solutions that are out there, such as you know, Einstein, and Salesforce and stuff can only work with the data that they can see

there is still a massive need for and an a gap of governance when it comes to the data that you have within your corporation. And to this I would look towards standards like ISO 38 500, which you can see a martek version of on the Trust Insights website,

which detailed This is how your corporation is supposed to work together it and marketing and technology

to run the system as well. And to help people work together and combine disparate systems,

many of the obstacles within the companies are around the people in the processes less about the technology the technology has, most packages have things like APIs that allow you to connect systems together. But the bigger obstacle is in the way people work together or don’t work together within a company

who has access to what data who’s permitted access to what data was working with my one company where the marketing department was not permitted to access the company’s own data, they had a large data platform, and for some interesting reasons, they were not allowed to, to access their own data. And so obviously, they were really hamstrung as to what they could effectively do.

And so it’s it’s regulatory, it’s legal, it’s process internally that very often locks up the data within companies. And then that is what withholds AI and machine learning from being able to provide the kind of improvements that we all want the better ROI, the more impactful campaigns, the better marketing. So

the big promise helping us make use of that data, but we have to get out of our own way and look for products and services and software that work well together as we go through that data lifecycle. As always, if you have questions, please leave them in the comments. You can submit them on the forum and the link below. Subscribe to the YouTube channel until the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 13, 2018
You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Tasks and AI
Denis asks, “What existing marketing processes or tasks do you expect AI to help speed up or eliminate?”

Some tasks will indeed be sped up. Others will be replaced entirely, and there’s a straightforward way to identify what will be replaced. Learn what tasks will and won’t be eliminated by AI. Watch the video for full details.

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In today’s episode, Dennis asks, What existing marketing processes or tasks Do you expect

AI to help speed up or eliminate?

The answer to this question is maddeningly vague, get incredibly specific. And that is this anything that is repetitive,

artificial intelligence, machine learning, specifically with all of its categories, deep learning, reinforcement, learning, etc,

is really good at learning repetitive processes. So

anything that you do in marketing is a candidate for replacement by AI. If it’s a repetitive task, consider the process of, for example, scheduling social media posts, right? This is a very repetitive thing

at Trust Insights, we use code that I wrote to help with a lot of the analysis of what content to share the creation of the files to batch upload for the foundation, the framework of social posts, this is not does not handle the interactions, the engagement with people, but it does handle the the skeleton of hey, here’s some interesting stuff without you might find useful.

I have worked at other companies and other firms where there’s some poor person, usually the most entry level person who is copying and pasting between spreadsheets for clients or customers for their social media, which is a soul crushing job. And so that is 100% up for grabs for machines to take over. and rightfully so, it’s really not work that helps leverage the the true power of the human mind when we look at things like analytics. And reporting. Reporting is another candidate for Hey, if you done this job before, sure, have copy, copy, paste, copy, paste,

do some basic math and some spreadsheets and things that is all stuff that are candidates for

AI to either speed up or just eliminate entirely,

even things that you would think of as creative.

Alright, next, necessarily all that creative.

Another company I was at

the creative team was making advertisements for clients and the clients had very strict brand standards. These are the words and phrases you may use these words and phrases, you may not use these the images, you may use these the images you may not use, guess what all that meant that

very talented,

highly paid graphic design staff were copy, paste, copy, paste, copy, paste the same text images with some variation terms of alignment, where you put the text on the picture of the image,

the client stuff, but at the same time, it’s like, it’s not

really that creative.

So your benchmarks for what AI can speed up or eliminate, or things that require no creativity, or very little creativity, things that are wrote that are mechanical in nature and things that are highly repetitive.

In fact, things that are really, really repetitive probably should have already been automated. If it’s exactly the same thing over and over again, you don’t need AI for that that’s robotic process automation. And frankly, you don’t even need RPM, you can just write some very simple scripts or if you’re on a Mac, give us a little automate or application. And that would do the job just as well,

where AI will benefit the acceleration of Process Automation is in dealing with some level of ambiguity. So it’s not exactly the same task each time, but it’s close. It’s it’s within a tolerances.

For example,

if if you’re writing an email newsletter, and the email newsletters content is 80%,

the same general stuff, you can have code do that for you. And maybe you do the one off introduction or the the CEOs perspective, or whatever the case may be.

But the bulk of it is still repetitive. If you are,

if you are summarizing blog posts.

Guess what? summarization. Text summarization is 100% automated why machine learning and in fact, is one of the best applications for it. If you were to add something I’m actually personally working on myself right now is building a summarization algorithm that can identify the most relevant pieces of text within a large piece of text and summarize it down to a sentence or two, because I want my newsletter to have more

depth to it. But at the same time, I don’t want to read all 500 articles that I scan each week. So how can I build an algorithm to do that and accommodate for the variations in language and topic, but at the same time, still deliver value to the reader.

So if you are summarizing documents, there is technology available on the market today that you can use

it all comes down to repetition. One of the things I say in

in my talks is, if you do it with a template today, a machine does it without you tomorrow. So if

you’ve ever googled for an Instagram template of Facebook template,

marketing, budget, template, strategy, template, marketing framework, inbound

strategy, or inbound template, guess what all of those things are things that you can 100% automate through machine learning. Because if it’s already in a structured cans, document,

it’s up for grabs the machines

can do it,

which leads to the flip side of the coin is what are the things that AI will not replace creativity, true creativity coming up with something net new out of whole cloth

is something that machines will not be doing for quite some time.

Anything dealing with human emotions in a tangible way.

And in an interactive way, as opposed to an analytical way is up

for grabs. So that means things like empathy and judgment machines are not real good at that.

And in particular, machines are really struggling to understand sarcasm. I saw a comment the other day

on a Facebook post, someone posted this political thing. And

one of the common does and I know this person and I know their political orientation commented This is great.

And they meant to exact that Tom This is great

machine has no other context to go on. The machine doesn’t know that person is actually being sarcastic and saying this is actually terrible.

There’s no emoji there’s no other context. And so

there’s still that broad awareness that general intelligence human general intelligence has that machines don’t have yet so empathy judgment, that general life experience and in many ways that human human connection is still not something that we’re going to automate the exception being as something I’ve said, often

if your customer experience is so terrible, so awful, that

completely automated soulless response would be an improvement. And yes, that’s a candidate for replacement. But I would argue that if your customer experiences that bad, your entire company is accounted for replacement by by a competitor, with the exception being placed where there is no competition, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles,

boy, would we all love to automate that.

And so

that’s what AI will speed up and eliminate, it will eliminate terrible customer service by setting a minimum bar of competencies say this is

this was guaranteed mediocrity, you’ll have a guaranteed mediocre interaction with

a chat bot. But if that’s better than the terrible experience, everybody’s happier

there’s so much more to dig into. So check on the videos that we just put I just put up on strat AI strategy and things like that as well. And be sure to check out the fuse digital conference as well. Sure I’ll be speaking about this topic later this year. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 11, 2018
Win With AI: How to Create an AI Strategy
As part of IBM’s Win With AI Summit, we’re answering some of the most common questions about AI. Today, we tackle the most fundamental: how do we create an AI strategy?

Watch the video to learn the three-part process and what you’ll need to succeed with an AI implementation.

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As part of the win with AI summit today, we want to talk about creating an AI strategy. How do you how do you put together a strategy for artificial intelligence? Full disclosure, I have an IBM champion and my company we’re interest insights is a registered IBM Business Partner. So any purchases you make from IBM may benefit us financially

when it comes to AI strategy. The first and most important thing is what is the business school not? What’s the technology goal? What is the business goal you’re trying to achieve? Is it improving profits? Is it reducing workforce costs? What is the business outcome you’re after? If you don’t know that stuff, everything else and do not attempt to apply artificial intelligence to the problem. The reason for that is that AI is not a magic wand. It’s math right? It’s it’s math and statistics as

Probability technologies and they are very good and they’re very powerful. But they are still fundamentally just math, not magic. So you need to be very clear about what your goal is what you want to achieve.

Second, does the goal that you’re trying to achieve and be specific about it? Does it align with the core benefits of artificial intelligence? Remember, there’s three core benefits acceleration, accuracy and automation acceleration. You want results faster, if you know where you’re going, you’re know what you’re trying to do. You just want to get there faster. AI can certainly help with that. If you know where you’re going. And you know what you want to do, and you’re not happy with the quality of the work that you’re getting out of, say, lesser systems like human beings

accuracy, again, AI is math. So accuracy is something that machines are extremely good at finding and improving upon and third automation if everything is already laid out.

You have the processes in place, and you want them to be done by machine where and when possible. And there’s no weird gotchas or surprises or strange anomalies,

automation is that third benefit, and you will be able to do that with artificial intelligence.

If the business goal you’re after is one of those three, or even a combination of those three, then you know that artificial intelligence is going to be a useful road to travel towards achieving that business goal. So that’s the second layer. The third layer you need in your AI strategy is to map out

the Rumsfeld matrix, as it called, what are your known knowns, you know, what, you know, you know,

your data is, you know, what your anomalies are, if there are any, you know, the processes, that’s your known knowns, what are your unknown knows what don’t you know that you know, so, for example, what are the silos in your company? Where are all of the data stores have you have a complete

audit and inventory of all of your data do you have? Do you know what your governance is? Do you know what your staffing is like? Do you have your processes and procedures and everything documented out those your unknown knowns and companies have more of these than they think unless you are a one person company, you have unknown knowns and you need to solve for them first. And that is not an AI function. That is more of a data science data architecture information architecture function. So make sure you have that in place.

What are your known unknowns, you know, what you don’t know, you know,

where the gaps are new data, you know what parts of your data are unclean. You know what data you don’t have, that you might need to go get externally. And again, this these are the things that you’ll need to solve more with data science, then you will have the artificial intelligence. A big part of your API strategy is converting those unknowns into knowns, you do your audit inventory, your process, your governance, and your unknown unknowns to transform those unknowns.

knowns and unknown knowns you go out and you do data science and experimentation and exploration, exploratory data analysis and all this stuff to solve the, the, the known unknowns to learn what you don’t know that you need to know. And to transform that into known knowns. And finally, what are the gotchas? What are the really weird things? What are the unknown unknowns? You don’t know what you don’t know. And there can be a lot of these.

There can be things like biases in your data, there can be severe flaws in your data that can be macro conditions that are impacting your data that you may not even know about. So they’re unknown unknowns. You don’t know what you don’t know.

And this is something you have to keep an eye on throughout your AI implementation. What are those things you didn’t know that you didn’t know? But now you know, and then that transitions into known unknowns and unknown knowns and again, use information architecture or data science to solve for those

Once you’ve got all that done, and that is a lot to do, and that what I just talked about is probably 80 to 90% of an AI implementation, fixing your data and getting it ready for training. He would then choose the tactics, the execution, the vendors, the algorithms, the methodologies,

to solve the unknowns, and train and build training data sets on the knowns, you build your training data sets you need for things really for for the execution portion of an AI strategy. You need people which are both human beings and the knowledge and the talent that goes with them. You need to find processes for that implementation. You need a platform of some kind like IBM Watson and you need participation. You need buy in at all the levels in the company that are going to be impacted by the system

unless you are a company that is

is entirely staffed by people who only copy paste.

You’re not going to be getting rid of people. In fact, probably in the early days of an AI implementation, you’re going to be adding people because you need to bring in new talent and specializations that you don’t necessarily have available. So having that participation, having that buy in from the very top all the way down to the the day to day workers is going to be essential for making an NAIA implementation work well, so

that’s the strategy for creating a strategy goals,

alignment with the benefits and making sure that AI is the right choice for accomplishing those goals is the best choice.

identifying your knowns, identifying your unknowns, solving your unknowns and then rolling out in production to people to process the platform at with company wide participation or at least departmental live participation your AI implemented

My best recommendation if you are not

already, if you’ve not already done the foundation work is do something small, do something that is achievable, do something that is has a measurable benefit. And that is relatively straightforward to do

do something also that’s relatively low risk. So for example,

automating purchase order identification attacking and tracking to relieve accounting of the of the drudgery of categorizing receipts, right. image recognition is a very simple a function that artificial intelligence is very, very good at optical character recognition. And nobody loves reading receipts. Nobody loves reading and categorizing them sees this is a meal. This is a taxi. This is an Uber This is a an airplane tickets and hotel receipt, right? No one loves doing that

automate that process with higher accuracy.

faster results. And, and we’re moving that drudgery and you’ll see immediate benefits in a very small contained way that can then create by and for larger limitations Don’t try to automate the entire enterprise all at once it’s gonna be a miserable failure, use

AI at a tactical level to begin to show some early wins, get some immediate results and then elevate to to bigger and bigger functions. So

if you’re going to be in New York City, the week of September 13, which is the the week I’m recording this video, hope to see the wind with AI summit if you’re not catch the replays at IBM website. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 10, 2018
#WinWithAI: How To Leverage The Value of Data
Melissa asks, “How can companies leverage data — their most valuable asset — as a competitive advantage?”

As part of the IBM #WinWithAI Summit, this is a critical question. What are the uses of data?
- Data as the end product, for analytics and insights
- Data as the source for training machine learning models
- Data as a commodity to be packaged, shared, and sold
- Data analysis as a commodity
- Data insights as a commodity
- Machine learning models as a commodity
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In today’s episode, Melissa asks, How can companies leverage data and their most valuable asset as a competitive advantage? This is a really interesting question. That’s an important question. And something that we’re answering at IBM when with AI summit full disclosure, IBM does compensate me to attend these things, mostly with like shirts.

data has sort of six major outcomes that companies should care about in terms of what the data becomes. Most companies most of the time will use use case number one, which is data as the end product for internal use at the company from that data. We do analysis to figure out what happened we use qualitative research to figure out why and then we set strategies, tactics and execution from those analytics and insights and that is

is a great use of data that is a very smart use of data. But it is only one of six potential uses for that data. Now the second use for data within a company. The second second way we can leverage it is as a training source. So

all machine learning all artificial intelligence requires training data requires data to help the machines build models that they can then use to predict or to understand

new incoming data. So we need for internal use to have really, really good, clean add, categorized

with proper proper taxonomy is data that machine learning software can use to build its model. So that’s the second year. So those are the sort of the two major internal uses of data as the end product itself or analysis or as the training data source to build models and then we

Use those models to run our businesses. Those are the only uses. There’s also for external uses for this data that can be a competitive advantage. The first is the data itself as a commodity, to be packaged, to be shared, to be sold

to be published online. This is the raw data. So if you go to, for example, a castle or data dot world, or data dot gov, these are places where you can actually get data sets and work with them. So you would publish them. There are obviously plenty of data sets that you have to pay money for. And so this is where it becomes a competitive advantage. And a revenue generator for a company say, Hey, here’s our, you know, anonymized clean prepared retail shoes data set as an example. And people could take that data set and then use it depending on how trustworthy it is for their own

data efforts if they need to append or augment their own internal data with your data.

They could do so. So if you a company has, for example, strategic partners, that data set could be an enormous asset for those partners to be able to leverage. The second external use will be data analysis as commodities, that against something you would package and sell. So not just the data itself, but your analysis of it is something that you can go and sell on in the marketplace. Your insights will be the third thing you could sell because, again, insights answer the question of why and typically require additional market research to bring the data to life.

My colleague, Tom Webster often says data is not insight, which is absolute data is the raw material insight is the cooked dish, if you will,

and so you need to have those insights. If you’re drawing those insights from your data Anyway, you could certainly publish those insights as something that you could sell.

On the marketplace from my company Trust Insights, we did a women’s retail shoe study

taking search data and turning it into guidance for markers who are in the fashion industry and say, these are the days and times of the weeks when certain types of shoe or certain brands will be most prominent in the fall.

And the finally the last area where data can be a strategic advantage or or a valuable asset is in those machine learning models. Now, this is where you would, instead of giving someone the data and saying hey, good luck building your own model, you could actually take the pre packaged up training model that you built your own internal use and sell that or share that

in marketplaces for sale. For example, if you’re using IBM Watson Analytics there is the analytics exchange you can actually share your models your workbooks and

with other members of the IBM community, if you are working with things like Watson studio, you can import carrots or TensorFlow or other models, we either the code to generate the model the model itself into Watson studio. So, again, you can see how taking those models, not the data, the model built from the data and being able to share that as a strategic asset is a way to really bolster your competitive advantage or to improve the value of of data as an asset

In the latter case in machine learning models, but even in the data itself.

Another application if you don’t want to sell it is to open source it and then have your community contribute to it, either cleaning it and tagging it, for example, or rerunning or improving the model fixing your code even. And so all of these are ways that you could then re import those

changes back into your production ecosystem and make better models which lead to better. And now analysis, which leads to better insights.

All of this is contingent upon

having clean compatible, well chosen data. Internally complete data

is relevant.

And so having good data is sort of the foundation of this. But once you have good data, once you’ve gone through the very, very lengthy and arduous process of creating clean data, you can then leverage it in these two internally uses and these four extra uses to bolster competitive advantage to help strategic partners in your ecosystem to make some money on it, and ultimately, to make your enterprise work better. So a great question a complex question and get thinking about who else could use this data whenever you’re working on a data set? Who else could use this data? Who else could

benefit from this data and that will give you some insights as to what else you could do with the data to turn it into a greater advantage to turn it into a revenue source. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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September 4, 2018

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