Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Analytics Reports Tools?

    You Ask, I Answer: Analytics Reports Tools?

    Julie asks, “How do you put your analytics reports together? Excel, powerpoint, or something else?”

    As with any questions about tools, the answer is contingent on many factors.

    – What does the person have? Excel and Powerpoint are nearly ubiquitous, as is a web browser
    – What has the customer asked for?
    – What are your own technical limitations?
    – What will the customer actually use?
    – Think about radical ideas like internal podcasts

    Here’s how you know your reports have failed: someone wants a meeting to review them. If someone says, “Walk me through this report”, the report has not done its job of conveying what happened, why, and what are the next steps or decisions to be made.

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    In today’s episode, Julie asks, How do you put your Analytics reports together Excel, PowerPoint, something else as any question about tools, which is what we’re talking about here?

    The answer is contingent upon many factors, and

    many different pieces of information that you need to have in order to give a great answer. So what are those factors? Number one, what is the person the the customer have? What do they have the ability to read for document formats, it’s great if you like me use advanced analytics tools. But if the customer doesn’t have them, then that’s no good, right? Because the customer can’t open your data and can’t review what it is you’ve put together. So know that the reason why we do things like Excel, or PowerPoint or web browser interfaces, because that’s what everybody has that the sort of the guarantee everyone’s at least got a web browser because almost everyone’s got a smartphone. Second is what has the customer asked for. And this is an important one, I did some work for a major telecom company a little while ago. And they, their their senior executives like to read on the plane, they were on plans all the time. And so everything had to be in like the 70 page Word document. So I’m like, this is really not the best way to to present some of this information. And they said, No, that’s what the boss wants, the boss likes to sit down with a glass of something or other and on their flights, from point A to point B, they read through these documents, and red line them. And that was your thing, it had to be paper, it was, you know, no interactive, no links were given very specific instructions, the boss likes to read through the ream of paper, red line things and hands off his his analysis, essentially, of the data back to his team

    when they get back to wherever it was that they were going. So what is the customer asked for is a big thing. And if you are putting together Analytics reports for somebody, this is a key question to ask is, what format Are you comfortable with?

    The third question is, what are your technical limitations, and what can you do, it’s great, if you want to do something like have interactive dashboards, but if you’re not versed in tools, like shiny, or Tablo, then interactive dashboards are going to be a little more difficult. Even if even something like Google Data Studio, if you’ve never used it,

    it’s probably a good idea to get some practice with it first, before rolling it out as a reporting format. So what are your own technical limitations and forth?

    and probably most important, I think is what’s the customer actually going to use? What will they make use of it is absolutely no use to crank out a report in any format.

    If it immediately goes into somebody’s circular file, or they archive the email or they glance through it and their eyes glaze over.

    That’s no good. There’s no point in doing the reporting because it’s not being used. So what will the customer actually use? And this is where you have to do a lot of legwork to ask your customers, how do you use reports? What do you use your reports for? When do you use reports? who reads this report? Why do you read the report

    that we generate? And

    all of these are really important things? Like when do you When do you get work, like reviewing reports done on surprising who, what, where, when, why, how,

    right, the

    classic six questions, asked these questions about your reports, and give some real thoughts to unconventional report formats that work for your

    customer. So let’s say that you’ve got a customer and they are they have a commute, or they go to the gym,

    nothing stops you from putting together an internal podcast where you review the report in audio format, so that they can get their work done, make use of that time

    and

    get it in a format that works for them. So those are sort of the four big questions for putting together Analytics reports.

    Now, here’s the other thing. This is a really important point.

    If somebody gets your report, and then says they want a meeting to review the report with you, that means your report is failed. At no point should someone who reads your report,

    ask you to walk

    them through it right, follow up questions, a great follow up men, they read the report, they got value out of it. And then they want to even dig deeper, or they want a more thorough analysis of one point. But if they’re just asking you to walk me through this report, your report has failed, because it did not deliver what the person was asking for.

    Which means you need to go back to the beginning of the process and say, Okay, well, how are you going to use this thing? What are you going to use this thing for? Who’s reading it? How is it used, when is it used, and so on, so forth, your reports fail when they don’t do the job of conveying the information to the to the person to the customer in the way that they want to consume it.

    So go back through for all your reporting and figure out what it is that you really being asked for.

    Another thing is this as much as we’d like to automate reports. And believe me, I am

    the biggest fan of automation of live dashboards of live data feeds and things like that.

    The only thing you can do with reports for automation is to automate the delivery and the processing of the data. You cannot automate the insights, you cannot automate the recommendations, you cannot automate the cues, what we should do next. And remember, there’s a reporting format we’ve called the same format, the summary which is like if you read nothing else, read this thing, the analysis what happened, the insights, why did it happen, the next steps, what are we going to do about it? Or what do you need to make a decision about in order for us to move forward and then a timeline that’s the format in absence of anything else that all of your reports should have, which means that the almost all of it is going to be non automated, the only part that’s going to be potentially automate will be the analysis part where you analyze the data, everything else requires you to

    add value to

    the reporting process and say, This is what why the things happen that they did, what the next steps are, what the decisions we need to be made are and this is the time frame is going to occur. If you format your reports like that you will be very pleased at how little you have to walk through people through the reporting process and how much more your reports will do to advance the programs the causes the metrics that you care about? So great question, Julie. It’s a complex question. It’s a question that a lot of people get very, very wrong. Don’t worry about the tools so much as worry about the format and worry about the reports are doing the job they want, getting information to people and getting them to ultimately make decisions or let you do what it is that you need to do to get the results that everybody cares about. As always, please leave your comments in the comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Email Marketing Tools in 2019

    You Ask, I Answer: Email Marketing Tools in 2019

    Roger asks, “If you could only use 3 marketing tools for your email list in marketing campaigns which 3 would you choose?”

    There’s an easy answer and an answer which will give you a competitive advantage. The easy answer is a solid martech stack – comprehensive web analytics, great marketing automation (which includes email), and a rigorous CRM. But that’s table stakes, the table minimum as we head into 2019. There’s something that will give you a competitive advantage. Watch the video to find out what it is.

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    In today’s episode, Roger asked if you could only use three marketing tools for your email list in marketing campaigns, which through would you choose? Oh, that’s kind of an

    interesting question. There’s easy answer to that question. And then there’s an answer that will give you a competitive advantage. So rather than the just restrict ourselves to three, let’s dig into this a little bit. Now, the easy answer is a solid marketing technology stack, which means you need great web analytics, a great marketing automation platform, which includes email marketing capabilities, and a rigorous CRM that tracks your data appropriately, and gives you thorough reporting about what’s happening with your business,

    those would be the the basic three marketing tools that you would need in order to be able to do marketing effectively, or at least today. But that’s, that’s the table stakes, that’s the

    bare minimum that you need. As we head into 2019, if you want a competitive advantage, you’re going to need to do something that none of these tools currently do. And that is you’ll need to extract the data out of all of them, and do rigorous statistical analysis, rigorous data science on them on all that data to figure out what’s actually working. So consider for a moment what you know, about a name and an email address, which is probably what you have a fair amount of in, in an email marketing system, what can you know, just from that, you can assess the probability and I emphasizes probability of gender, you can know in some cases, depending on the type of name

    I probability of age, because there are names and you can go to France, baby name sites, see the rising and falling trends of different types of names from the email address, you can get the top level domain.com.org country level code.uk.us, you can get the company name itself, and there are certain email providers that you’ll know that you can determine our our nonprofit or for profit,

    there are the webmail providers, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, things like that. And then there are domain lookup. So you can do if you are skilled at extracting data out of public systems, you can query any number of the domain name servers to ask for the company name. So what is, you know, who runs gmail. com, who runs trust insights.ai. And these are examples of ways you can pull data out of the domain name registry system, if it’s publicly if it’s allowed, if it’s publicly disclosed, to get a better sense of what is the company and then from there, you can do feature engineering to figure out are these companies reasonably good companies to have in our database for the purposes of marketing, that is data science, that is the investigations all it’s almost dated

    detective work to take what is a very thin list a very thin

    amount of data and augmented to engineer it and augment it to bring in the lots more data that you can then look at outcomes. If you’re doing your email marketing. Well, you should have a score next to each email address, for example, number of opens number of clicks, if you’ve done a good job of if it’s if your email marketing is being run through your marketing automation system, you should have great data about the number of times and the value of those conversions that in any given email address has done in your database. So downloaded a white paper, a webinar book came to a trade show event booth,

    put something in their shopping card, walked in the store, sign up for the loyalty program, you name it, there’s any number of interactions that you could be tying back to the email address. If you’ve done that, then you can run an analysis to say, okay, we know these email addresses have all converted, we know these email addresses of all not converted, what do all the email addresses have converted, having common, what did all the email justice who have not converted have in common? Are there things that are traceable, that you can get out of your marketing automation software out of your CRM that was that say, this is the profile of who converts and this is important or to do this is this is important work to be able to assess and say, Yep, we now have a better idea of the type of person that type of customer the type of business that is likely to convert and turn into real dollars. The exception of course, and this something my CEO Katie or various that is that if you’re if you don’t have enough data, if your company is brand spanking new, and you don’t have enough data, you’ve got three customers, right, that’s not a statistically significant number of conversions. So you’re not going to get great data out of that. But you can get indicator data to test so you may not be able to have a million conversions. But you might have 1000 or 2000 website visitors, you might have 1000 or 2000 newsletter signups that would be ways that you could augment that data until you have the final conversion data.

    So the question of what email

    tools or

    or techniques should be powering your your marketing campaigns has to be more than the obvious ones in order for you to build competitive advantage. And competitive advantage is going to come through your data that you clean and

    prepare

    the analysis of that data to figure out what happened, what’s working what’s not at a very deep level. Remember, we just talked a whole bunch about feature engineering the insights which is potentially why the things happen, and you’re testing plan for them, and then changing your strategy to mirror that’s how you’re going to get competitive advantage in 2019 for email marketing, web marketing, Facebook marketing, whatever kind of marketing you’re doing, if you’re not approaching it from a rigorous data science perspective, a, you’re leaving money on the table and be you’re leaving opening for competitors take advantage of you. If you are using data science,

    you are potentially pulling further and further ahead of those competitors who are not using data as a competitive advantage. And you may be able to see as much more market share your disproportionate amount of market share.

    Now,

    if the market takes a turn in 2019. So there’s a possibility that it will but if a market if the market takes a turn,

    you’ll be important double down on your data science capabilities. And here’s why. What happens at every downturn does that a bunch of vendors and companies and competitors all go kaboom. Right, they go bust.

    And that means there is opportunity to take up market share, to take customers away from companies have gone under or vendors that have gone under and use that to seize an advantage.

    So you can

    acquire new talent very quickly at lower costs. You can

    double down on the customers you already have and deliver more value to them. But you’re going to need data for that. So make sure that you’re using the start down this path of using data detective work within your data today so that no matter what happens with the economy, you have a competitive advantage that very few other people are willing or able to get. Thanks for the great question. Roger Lee. follow up questions below in the comments. And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today unless you know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How Can Marketers Fix Dirty Data?

    You Ask, I Answer: How Can Marketers Fix Dirty Data?

    Gini asks, “OK! I have questions! Let’s assume the data is a mess or “dirty”, how can a communicator or marketer figure out what’s missing, where the holes are, or why something isn’t working?”

    This is a process known as exploratory data analysis (EDA), and it’s a formal discipline within data science. Learn what EDA is, the steps involved in the process, what software data scientists typically use, and why marketers shouldn’t attempt to go it alone when doing rigorous statistical analysis. Watch the video for full details.

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    In today’s episode, Ginny asks, I have questions. Let’s assume that data work exploring is a mess or dirty, how can a marketer figure out what’s missing where the holes are or why something isn’t working. So this is a process and it’s actually entire discipline is a part of data science is called exploratory data analysis. And in exploratory data analysis, what you were doing is you are taking a look at your data using data science tools to understand

    what’s wrong with the data if there is anything wrong and also features and facts about your data. There are a number of packages within data science software. So if you use the statistical programming language, our or Python for example, there are entire libraries and packages that plugin to these the

    The software that does what’s called eta exploratory data analysis and can automate some of it generally speaking there’s going to be

    five or six steps to the ETA process. The first is you got to get the data in one place and some things like missing data very easy to spot because they will actually show up is not available

    blanks within the data set and if your data set has a bunch of holes in it you’ll know really quickly you look at the types of data that are in your data set to see if they are consistent so when you load data in in our for example it will come in and are will do its best guests to say like this is character data this is numeric data, this these integers these are dates and if it comes in and it looks wrong you look at the data types to meet you go ooze, there’s there’s something not clean and there that’s throwing it off that it doesn’t know what to do software like our for example will default to text if it hasn’t if there’s numbers and letters and

    Characters all mixed together. So real simple example of looking at your data types. The third step is to look at measures of what’s called central tendency. So you look at the mean the average the meaning and the mode, and you look up this in all the different columns and things and you look for you look for oddities, you look for things that don’t make sense. You look for one measure being substantially different than that could tell you that there’s a lot of outliers that there’s a lot of garbage in anything quantitative. Your fourth step is going to be measuring what it’s called dispersion, which is looking at things like ranges, standard deviation, the sigma is the probabilities of distributions and variances

    in any kind of normal distribution you’re looking for, like a bell curve. So you’re looking for also things like skew newness, where, like, does the bell curve kind of squished in one end it doesn’t the variables not distributed evenly and then

    You’re going to do a lot of visualization of that data

    box plots and bar plots and scanner plots and, and all these things to look at your data to represent it and say, okay, does this data set look, okay? Does this data set look healthy. And there are plenty of cases where it won’t be when marketers are looking at their data,

    figuring out those missing values is an important part of this process. And you’ll probably end up doing some form of what’s called amputation to try and restore the data if there’s not too much missing. So like, if less than 5% of the data says missing, you can use statistical technology to restore machines. best guess at what those those data points were assuming a normal distribution

    there, you will look for anomalies to so you’ll see a database like 10 visitors, 10 visitors, 10 visits, 100 visitors, 10 visitors like what happened there and you either have to be able to account for the anomalies and say like, yep, that was the day that

    A Russian Twitter bot attacked us or you may have to throw those anomalies out something that a lot of folks do when they’re doing data set analysis built, trim off anything outside of like three sigma say, okay, anything that’s that far off the standard deviation is clearly just a weird anomaly. Let’s discard it. And again, there are statistical packages within our Twitter actually has a couple of anomaly detection, breakout detection libraries that say, Yep, that’s an anomaly. You can see if we throw about or that’s a that’s a breakouts, a trend changed, and he can’t throw it out because the something a change happened and the change stuck. So

    here’s the catch to Jenny’s question. Your

    average marketer your average communicator is not going to be able to do this on assistant. A lot of this requires either very good statistical software

    well it requires

    Vegas statistical software, but it also requires actual data science and statistical knowledge. This is not something that can you just pour the data set in. And a nice clean data set pops out the other side. The for that first step about domain knowledge is so important. And here’s the gap. Here’s the opportunity for for savvy marketers. Your average marketer is not a good quantitative person, your average data scientist is not a good marketer. And so there’s these two gaps this this chasm between these two domains of excellence domains of expertise, and someone needs to sit in the middle of that gap and bridge that gap and say, Okay, I can talk to the marketer and understand where they got the data and and what their goals are with this data. And I can talk to the data scientist and say, okay, you process the data, here’s the outcome that we’re trying to get. So you can discard, you can safely discard X, Y, and Z variables because we don’t need them for this goal. And that person who sits

    In the middle, we call them calling the marketing technologists for a number of years now. But it’s someone who’s who is a translator between the two disciplines who can help the data scientist understand the marketers needs and the mark, help the marketer understand what the data scientist needs to be able to do their job.

    A marketer is probably not going to be able to do this on their own

    looking at a data set, they’re probably not going to be able to ascertain anything other than like the basics. Of course, they can do the basics like yeah, there’s a bunch of columns here that are zeros or empty,

    but anything beyond that the most obvious things to repair you’re going to need help with Now,

    what’s changing is that there are a number of tools in the marketplace that are beginning to advance that are are doing some of this cleaning for you. And I emphasized that it is some of this cleaning because there is still no substitute for that domain expertise within data science there is there are tools like Watson studio that

    Make the importation and cleaning easier or and can automate common obvious mistakes. But at the end of the day, you still need that human, several humans, the marketer and the data scientists working together to understand what’s an anomaly or a bug or mistake versus what’s, nope, there’s a real there that we need. They’re there that we need to investigate. And that is the hardest part. So great question.

    marketers need to develop some level statistical proficiency. Because data scientists are in such demand right now, that’s unlikely data scientists going to become a marketer on the side, it’s probably not going to happen. So marketers need to begin developing those statistical mathematical and data science skills in order to make the most of their data if they don’t want to outsource it to someone else. Now, if you work in a large institution, you have a data science team on staff, there’s a good chance you could at least buy them a beer and ask them your questions.

    If you work at a mid sized or small organization looks your agency partners to see if they have data science capabilities. And if they don’t. Well,

    shameless plug my company trust insights does that so we’re happy to help. But most of all,

    be aware that

    one of my martial arts teachers calls it you’re reaching for something that isn’t there. don’t reach for something that isn’t there. Meaning if you know you’re not good at quantitative analysis, you know, you’re not good at statistics. Don’t try to fake it yet some help get some help to fix the problem so that it’s done right. So great question. We could spend hours talking about data quality and things and maybe we’ll do that in a webinar or something. But in the short term, pair up with a data scientist and explore your data together. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon What help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Top Data Challenges of the Future

    You Ask, I Answer: Marketing Top Data Challenges of the Future

    Aditya asks, “What do you see as the top data challenges facing marketers in the next couple of years?”

    While it’s difficult to accurately predict anything today, given the rate of technological change, there’s one sea change already underway that marketers are failing at, and will only get worse. Watch the video to learn what it is, and one possible solution.

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    In today’s episode, a DJ asks, What do you see as the top data challenges facing marketers in the next couple of years?

    Oh, so prediction. I people love prediction. This time a year is late 2018 late in the years as a record this and

    making predictions is difficult and hazardous. Because the rate of technological change is so

    accelerating that

    a prognostication of some kind could easily be proven wrong in days,

    probably one of the most famous examples of a of a

    challenge or a prediction that went awry was

    someone was predicting that would take deep learning something like 20 years to be able to do something like when a game of Go and this prediction was made in 2016, 2015.

    And of course, in late 2016,

    Google’s DeepMind one go. So what was supposed to take 20 years took about 18 months. So there’s,

    there’s always that risk. Now,

    while it’s difficult to make any kind of predictions like that there is one sea change that’s already underway, that marketers are failing and is only going to get worse. And that is

    our collective over reliance on personally identifiable information.

    We fuel a lot of legacy marketing technology

    and legacy marketing methods on

    these demographics, and firma graphics and descriptors of people.

    So for example, we make a lot of assumptions

    about customer based on their age, their gender,

    where they live, even the domain name of their email address, particularly it magazines for b2b marketing, the assumption is,

    oh, you work for a big company, you’re slightly more qualified.

    Now, there are some marketers who are doing very sophisticated segmentation,

    but

    personally identifiable information is going away

    in some fashion of form is going away in the next few years.

    In 2018, we saw GDPR take effect

    which every marketer scramble to try and, and meet compliance with and did so with varying degrees of success. But

    marketers didn’t really change their behavior years for say, they just had to do a better job of securing that data.

    And then not what,

    five months after the largest hack in history

    Marriott being compromised for to the tune of like 500 million records.

    So

    as these

    these security breaches and things continue,

    it will get harder and harder to get a hold of any non first party data. And it will get more and more dangerous for us to hold on to personally identifiable information. At some point, it’ll be too risky. At some point,

    someone’s going to go,

    it’s not worth having this

    data, the security risks are too high, and we’re not using

    the data as well as we could be anyway.

    So what’s the solution? The answer is

    getting away from

    basic descriptors, like personally identifiable information and moving towards behavioral data, this is going to take a while it’s it is a mindset for markers to change those very difficult,

    the idea that you don’t need to know that this person is a 44 year old

    Hispanic female, you don’t need to know that this person is

    is a parent that

    have two kids, what you do need to know is is the way that person has behaved in their interactions with you, up until this point,

    what pages they visit on your website, how did they interact with you in social media? Not

    did they, but what was the tone and the tenor and the sentiment

    the words and the pace which which they interact with you

    when the internet what how many channels have they interact with you on have an email Do you have they texted to you and they messaged you on messenger.

    And all of these behavioral factors

    are things that we need to build our algorithms around our software around our

    ability to do modeling and prediction.

    In a lot of cases, we have the raw materials already we know via things like Google Analytics, what pages you’ve been on, and how long you spend on those pages. We know via our email marketing software, whether you’ve replying to an email,

    we know via social media marketing software

    that you’ve engaged with us. So we know those things.

    But

    the date is kind of all over the place. And

    it’s difficult for people to build models around that to wrap their brains around the idea of like, I don’t need to know who you are, I just need you to, I just need to know what you’re doing so that I can show the appropriate things for you. When you think about it, though, as humans, we’ve had no problem with this in the past, when Go back,

    go back 50 years go. When somebody walks into your store,

    what do you know about them, nothing, you know nothing about all about them. But you can look at them, you can watch them, you can watch how they behave, do they linger in certain aisles, they pick an item up off the shelf and put it back if they’re with somebody, they talk to somebody about that

    when I was growing up, you know, kids used to hang out at the mall that would do that anymore. Not like that was the thing to do. And they would rove and packs and talk and discuss and loyal around stuff that they liked. We still do that. We just do that digitally. Now we do digital loitering all day long.

    And that’s that can be an indicator. So

    the top data challenge for marketers is getting away from PII, personally identifiable information and moving towards behavioral collection analysis and forecasting. It’s going to be a long road to get there. But it’s going to be a road we have to get on sooner

    rather than

    later. Because it will not be long before

    regulations. Increasing privacy regulations will force us to do that.

    As long as our companies we work for approve, to be

    irresponsible or outright, criminally neglectful of the data

    that they are entrusted with that will be

    a growing challenge. So start thinking about how do you plan for that? How do you start building models now on how to start collecting the data now and getting into an accessible place because if you do, you’ll be ahead of the curve and you’ll be able to offer privacy guarantees that other competitors can’t offer. Say, we’re not going to collect information because we don’t need it. We know who you are. We know we know what you want, even if we don’t know who you are. So great question.

    Future forecasting. always difficult to take it with a grain of salt. If you have any follow up questions, please leave them in the comments.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How To Make Use of Historical Data and Analytics

    You Ask, I Answer: How To Make Use of Historical Data and Analytics

    Jim asks, “My organization has years of data stored up. What can we do with it?”

    Fundamentally, you can take two approaches to your data – making it work for your organization, and then making it work for other organizations. Learn these two approaches and the hierarchy of analytics in this video.

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    In today’s episode, Jim asks, my organization has years of data stored up? What can we do with it? Now, it depends on how clean the data is. But

    in this case, Gemini we’re actually talking, invent recently, and

    the date is clean, it’s tagged, which means that someone has gone through and applied a taxonomy to it. This is a piece of data about this, this is a piece of data about this, this is the age of the data. This is the author of the data. And Jim has the taxonomy, which is so important and so valuable. Now, there’s two things you can do with a big pile of data. Number one is, as long as the data is relevant to your business, you can use it to make your business better. And you do this through the hierarchy of analytics. The hierarchy of analytics is where you, you take the data, in fact, let’s bring it up here data, make sure that you have the data and it’s cleaned as compatible as well chosen, it is completely just comprehensive,

    and that is step one. Step two is to run analysis on that data. And the analysis you’re going to run is to understand why certain things work. So you’ll need to spend some time doing what’s called feature engineering to extract more characteristics of this data. And Jim’s data is a lot of text. And so extracting features like calm the most common nouns and verbs, the average reading level, what is the the key topic this this data is about?

    Who is the author was the personality author? What’s the sentiment and the emotion inside of the data

    and building out that will help you move from descriptive analytics,

    which is, so what is the stuff what happened to start to get to diagnostic analytics, which is why are Why are certain things working? Well,

    one of the key things that this data archive is missing because the large body of text is any kind of outcome, like how many people have read the original text wasn’t shared on social media? How much organic search traffic does it get? And that’s valuable information. From there, you build a predictive model or many predictive models on the data to try and understand what does the data tell us what can help the data help us forecast Jim’s data is all data that is essentially documentation. So what does it tell us about

    requests that people make for specific inquiries,

    and then we can use those requests to forecast what’s likely to happen next.

    And then the fourth hierarchy, the fourth step and hierarchy and one where, at least for what’s available on the market now is sort of the stopping point

    is that prescriptive, which is we can use the data to help us

    determine a course of action.

    So if if a ton of people read and annotated and and commented on this page,

    when we create future pages that are similar for similar products, or for similar events,

    what things made those popular pages popular that we can apply as lessons to help us guide prescribe what’s going to happen next. So that’s the first use case for Jim’s data, which is to use the data and build as we mentioned, different models throughout it feature engineering model help make it more complete predictive model to help forecast vomit prescriptive model to understand what to do next.

    And that’s a sort of applying machine learning at a utilitarian level to this data to make it more valuable. The second thing you can do with the data is really that transformative effect. How do we take this data now and turn into something that’s valuable not just for the organization, but for perhaps the organization’s customers, or for non competitive pure companies, every time you develop a process for managing a source of data, processing it, refining it, cleaning it building from it, you are creating models and techniques and code that our intellectual property assets, this is a fundamental part of what is called digital transformation, where you now have digital stuff that you can then resell or license or share with,

    like companies in your space and make money from it. The most famous example of this is American Airlines back in the in the 80s, they created the Sabre booking system for reservations, it was so effective that they licensed it out a bunch of other airlines at you know, very high costs. But it was such a better experience for the customer, that it made them a whole bunch of money as a system and itself has nothing to do with the the actual airplane other than it was to put butts in seats. The same thing is true of anything that you build on top of your data. If you do if you create a system that is really good at this type of data. And, you know, other companies have very similar kinds of data stored up, you can create an unlicensed, this technology to those other companies at a fee to apply your models to their data. And that in some cases can be a very lucrative business because other companies that are not as far ahead or in many cases, other companies that don’t have as much data or haven’t don’t have it as clean or it’s not as robust are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to training their software on data sources. So if you’ve got the data, you can license the data that you’ve got the model that’s pre trained based on a bespoke data set yours, you can you can sell the model because in a lot of cases, you can pick up the model and move it around to another like industry. So Jim is in a very good place from a transformative perspective in terms of taking this data and moving around. So that’s those are really the two big things you can use data for. You can use it yourself as utility and build models and things on top fit. Or once you do that you can apply it to other companies if it’s appropriate to do so. So great question, a fun question because there’s a lot of opportunity, a lot of opportunity to do really cool stuff, really interesting things that can make your company and many other companies better. So thanks for the question. Please leave any follow up questions in the comments. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    Fun Fact Friday: Feature Engineering

    In this episode, we talk about feature engineering and text, especially social media content. Social media text is often accompanied by very little data, so what can we do to enhance and expand it? That’s feature engineering. Watch the video for details about what kinds of features we can add to social media content to make it more understandable.

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    In today’s episode of Fun fact, Friday this week at the trust insights annual summit, which

    was held in my dining room, because we’re startup

    we were talking about some of the different ways you can do

    data tasks like feature engineering because the ability to use topic modeling and text mining and all these different machine learning algorithms is contingent upon what you put into the algorithm.

    The more data that you have that’s valid, clean, compatible, chosen, well, the better the algorithm will perform.

    When you think about it from that lens, then

    the average piece of texts that you feed to

    an algorithm, it isn’t very rich,

    for example, take a tweet, right? 280 characters at most probably 1015 words

    that in and of itself, this not a lot in that it’s just a bunch of words, what are the things that you can extract from that that could help you to better understand it better quantify it and and build better predictive outcomes around

    it?

    feature engineering is a data science term, which means, well, it’s engineering features. A feature is a dimension if you think about

    putting a tweet in the first column of a spreadsheet, right? And you put all your tweets in one column that is one feature the text itself, what other columns could you add to that spreadsheet that would be meaningful, that would describe the data that you could engineer out of that single tweet you can get from Twitter, for example, the author, you can get the date and the time, those are useful meta attributes that could provide some clarity about

    the tweet itself, you know, tweets sent in the middle of the night might have a different point of view, different language than a tweet sent in the middle of the day,

    if you run automated sentiment analysis, you can start to pull out things like specific emotions that are tagged from

    very well known libraries like UD pipe,

    you can get this the sentiment numbers plus one minus one and the scale along that line. And you can start you can extract things like character count, word count, number of capital letters, number of emoji in in

    in a tweet, for example,

    why would you want to do this? Why would you want to add more columns, given that we’re already talking in many cases about all this too much data, and there’s too much they have for us

    to analyze? Well, the reason you want to do feature engineering is

    you want to be able to start chipping away at the why now, no amount of this very clearly no amount of feature engineering can substitute for good qualitative research, no amount,

    but it can help enhance your qualitative research.

    It can give you more interesting questions to ask in your qualitative research. And it can eliminate things

    that are might be questions you would ask and qualitative research if you can show that there’s no relationship whatsoever.

    So for example, time of day, if you do feature engineering, and you have the data and you run it through

    an algorithm that says, hey, time of day, it’s not important to the end result that you care about,

    then you can eliminate questions in your in your focus group about time of day if there’s

    complete lack of statistical significance about time of

    day because say, okay, we don’t need to ask that question. It can make your

    your qualitative research more focused. The other thing that

    feature engineering does is it helps you

    start to, to understand

    hidden relationships within your data

    that you might not think to ask. Otherwise, if you use a

    user, build your own feature engineering library,

    you can have it do very specific things like how many capital letters do something using that’s, that’s not something that a person who’s analyzing, say, a book might think about, because it’s not helpful. But think about the people in, for example, social media conversations, if you got a tweet, that’s all in caps, either the caps lock key was stuck on a keyboard, well, that person’s really angry and wants to yell really, really loud, well, then us angry, they want to yell really, really loud.

    That’s a feature that knowing how many capital letters, or what percentage of a social media post is all capital letters is

    actually could be a distinguishing feature, especially when you pair it with something like emotion.

    And if you have a target variable, like number of clicks, or

    number of retweets, or shares or comments, or whatever it is, you want to use your endgame

    metric, then creating all these additional features could help you understand what are the little subtleties within that text that

    indicate the up there’s a there there, there’s something else to dig into this deeper to dig into. So

    give some thought, when you’re doing your social media analytics, when you’re doing your marketing analytics, when you’re doing

    your blog analysis, your content marketing, give some thought to how you analyze text, how you extract features, what features you look at, remember, features or columns in the spreadsheet,

    and ask whether you’ve done enough

    on the feature engineering front to find hidden meaning. Now, a a prerequisite of feature engineering is that you’ve got to have an algorithm that allows you to analyze all these features in combination and figure out which ones that matter the most

    trusted insights this we use three or four different algorithms depending on the type of data set and what’s in it.

    But all of that software is free. It’s open source software, academia has done an incredible job, the academic world of sharing working code for all of us to do enjoy and use important to make sure that academia remains well funded for

    that very reason.

    But the answers are knowable. And I think that’s probably the most important thing of this entire Fun Fact Friday is that

    the code is available, the data is available, we have to be the ones to engineer the features

    unless you use deep learning, in which case it can do automated feature engineering.

    And

    it’s just a matter of putting the pieces in the right order and having everything prepared well, to do this extraction, what do you get out of it, at the end,

    you get a model that says these are the top five or 10 things that create

    should not create that have a high statistical correlation to the end metric you care about. So if it’s retweets, for example, these are the five or 10 things that matter most out of this library of

    of data

    for example, I am working right now with a data set

    that is medium posts 1.4 million medium posts and

    the this is a massive massive data set

    and there’s an end target

    collapse and then there’s not much else right so I have to engineer

    about 15 new variables in order to do the feature engine but at the end of the day I want to know what has a high mathematical relationship to collapse and then we use that as the basis for

    our testing plan to say okay let’s go and test to see if we do more of X y&z do we get more claps

    at the end on medium

    that’s what you do with this that’s the value of this is gives you a much more focused testing plan. and that in turn means that your marketing can get more effective. So

    feature engineering is the name of what you do in data science to get

    at this stuff, try it out

    dig into your data you already have and see what’s in there see if it if there’s value that is hidden within your data and see if you can use feature engineering and then some machine learning statistical techniques to

    to unlock that

    value. As always, please please please leave comments and questions in the comments box below and subscribe to our YouTube channel and I newsletter and I’ll talk too soon.

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Just How Much Data Is A Zettabyte?

    Fun Fact Friday_ Just How Much Data Is A Zettabyte_

    One of the starting points for my keynote speech on artificial intelligence is that, as a civilization, humanity will create approximately 30 zettabytes of data in 2018 according to IDC. But just how much is a zettabyte? Watch this video to learn what a zettabyte is in Netflix terms, plus other stunning Internet usage facts.

    References: Data Never Sleeps 6.0 by Domo

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    In days, I was gonna call it Friday feelings, but I don’t really like the whole feelings thing. So let’s call it Fun fact, Friday,

    we’re chatting in a Facebook thread on Mark Schaefer his facebook wall about data. Eric Decker’s had raised a point that I had said in a keynote talk

    that we create 30 zettabytes of data which is a staff from Cisco. And IDC I believe from 2017. But it dates back to 2015, and it’s already

    out of date. And

    someone as well just how big is is that a bite and it’s really difficult to get your head around that

    a Netflix video.

    It’s about 30 minutes, right? You say

    a single dish on Netflix, 30 minutes. That’s about a gigabyte of data. If you were to start watching the world’s longest binge watch

    in the EEOC. An era when the first modern mammals and merged

    and evolved 57 million years ago when you binge watch Netflix all that time, you would just now get around to using the one zettabytes, right so that’s that is a lot of

    of data.

    And this year we cranked out I think around 30 was the forecast by 2025 according to Cisco forecasted by Cisco and I believe

    also IBM

    we were expected to crank out

    220 zettabytes

    just from connected devices so not even all the data just those things

    and it got me thinking and want to look up Domo

    has great

    now in its sixth year visualization called Data never sleeps, how much data do we generate every minute.

    And there’s some fun fun numbers in here. So for example, every minute of every day, YouTube users watch 4.3 million in videos. That’s up from 4.1 million previous year. So that’s a tremendous amount of video. If you’re watching this at all. Thank you. Because you political even watching any one of other

    4.3 million videos.

    Twitter users send 473,000 tweets, which is interesting,

    because that’s up from 426,000 previous year. Meanwhile, 12.9 million texts are sent down from 15.2. A big chunk of that is because of all the different messaging applications that are out there, messenger WhatsApp, WeChat line, kick Tango, you name it. There’s a billion and a half messaging apps now.

    And so there is there’s much more choice than just texting Instagram users post almost 50,000 photos every 60 seconds up from 46,000 previous year.

    And Google searches 3.8 million Google searches

    per minute, as opposed to 3.6 the previous year, there is just so much data that is being circulated that we are creating that we are using that it is impossible to keep up with, I think the over the last five staff members Netflix, Netflix us watching 97,000 hours of net of Netflix every minute or equivalent of

    whereas previously with 69,000 hours.

    The other thing was interesting was that there are 3.8 million

    boots are 3.8 billion people on the internet. And as of 2012, when this series got started, it was 2.5. So

    we’ve added almost

    a billion and a half old, about point 1.3 billion people to the internet

    in just six years. That is the stunning number anyone, though, I would assume that really, really out of touch. But anyone who says that the internet is still fat is clearly not about paying attention to the data. But when you think about where all the growth is happening, almost all the growth is in the non Western world. So take a take it America, North America, in particular and Europe out

    all the growth is happening in Middle East Africa, South America, the South Pacific region of the planet. And that’s where there’s so much more opportunity now.

    So give some thought to this.

    When you’re talking about your marketing, when you’re thinking about your marketing and your digital marketing in particular, and where you’re spending your time and where you’re chasing after customers.

    Have you given thought to what your international audience looks like, have you given thought to who your international audience is, and are you prepared to do business

    outside of your home country, wherever, wherever you are. Where if you’re in the UK, if you’re in Russia is you’re watching this,

    if you’re in South Africa watching this, I would assume that if you if you don’t speak English as a first language, and probably not as a second language, you’re probably not watching this video. Although I actually learned back in my podcasting days that people in non English speaking the language language regions love YouTube videos and podcasts because it’s a way for them to learn English easily from native speakers. You can hear someone like I have a for some strange reason I have a central Ohio accent

    would just basically the absence of a discernible accent.

    But yet people watching YouTube videos and podcasts

    to learn how native speakers speakers of that of those languages speak. I’ve done the same thing I watch. I’ve watched and listened to it really interestingly, Ukrainian and Russian videos and to hear how those different accent sounds so that even if I don’t recognize the language,

    I will know just the tonality of the the words how the words sound general to be able to hear that and tell the difference between someone speaking Russian, for example, and someone say speaking Latvian there’s there are very clear differences. We have to listen to the videos. So

    but yeah, there’s from from a marketing perspective

    of these people watching 4.3 million videos per second, where are they coming from? Where your audience members coming from? And when you look at it, we didn’t go inside Google Analytics. And you go into the audience menu on the left hand side and you click on geography does behavior geography?

    What countries are you

    getting visitors from? It’s probably not just your home country, wherever your home country is. It’s probably not just there.

    I live in America

    and 20 ish percent of my blog traffic is from outside of America now. Like, I think 11% is from Canada, and 7% from the UK. So it’s still very English centric regions. But there’s India is most after that. And then Germany.

    Now, unlike David Hasselhoff, I am not huge in Germany. So there are people there watching and reading the content. And

    there might be a market opportunity there

    might be, I don’t know, but there there’s clearly already at least one person

    and so

    look in your own data. Where are you getting traffic from? Where are you getting visitors from? Look on your YouTube data. If you’re posting videos on YouTube, YouTube has some of the best analytics for any video. Any rich media platform, right podcasting analytics are horrible by comparison.

    Look at YouTube videos where your audience is coming from. Where are they watching from? who watches longer does it the people in your home country or people outside your home country?

    Take a look and see if you can come up with some of your own fun facts on this on this Friday. So as always, thanks for watching the comments and the comments and please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Choose a Data Science Course

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Choose a Data Science Course

    Sherry asks, “What sets apart a good data science course? What should I look for in the curriculum?”

    Great question, and an important one in today’s world when companies are offering “crash courses” and “become a data scientist in X weeks”. Would you feel comfortable going to someone who did the “crash course in surgery” curriculum or “learn trial law in 10 weeks”? I sure wouldn’t. In this video, learn what data science courses and degrees should contain, and a semi-secret indicator that you’re looking at a great course.

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    In today’s episode Sherry asks what do you look for in a good data science course? What’s an indicator that of course is worth paying for and and what isn’t as really good question

    because there

    are a lot a ton of these crash courses and instant courses and and learn data science and five weeks now

    just for a moment consider data science is a profession just like any other profession,

    would you feel comfortable going to say a doctor who learned surgery in 10 weeks I crash courses surgery taken, you know, learn everything you need to know in 10 weeks,

    I don’t know that I would feel comfortable going to a doctor like that I would like to see the doctor have you know, some time some extreme taking a full education as opposed to just the the fastest way to become a search equally true I if I were on trial, I would not think to look for like who became a lawyer if you took the crash course in in trial law

    not that doesn’t make me feel super reassured that the same thing is true for data science for analytics for machine learning,

    there is more than just a course or if there’s going to be a course there should be tons of prerequisites, and tons of follow up work to surround that data science portion with

    all the other things that are important to know in order to be an effective data scientist. So keep that in mind when you hear instant or fast results and stuff like that.

    I don’t know that I would feel comfortable trusting my company data to somebody who tried to get the basics down in 10 weeks, can you learn something in in 10 weeks? one course? Absolutely. You can learn some things. But could you reasonably call yourself a full time professional data scientist with the same credibility that someone who is a doctor, a lawyer, a an accountant, with just a course Probably not. So keep that in mind. So what are the things that you should be looking for in a data science curriculum? Number one, there should be very heavy emphasis on statistics. Statistics is the core of data science. It is you know, statistics and probability are basically everything that happens in data science happens with those foundations. The second thing you should spend a lot of time on our algorithms and the math behind them,

    but not

    like using particular pieces of software not like the the IBM way or the Tablo way or the our way. But the algorithms themselves. What is the algorithm? How does it work? When do you use it, when do you not use it? So everything from basic linear regression, you know, what is it when you use it, how to use it all the way up to things like, you know, Pretto multi objective optimization,

    big, you know, big 10,

    your curriculum should be focusing heavily on learning the techniques learning when they’re appropriate learning when they’re not appropriate, learning how to do them. And that’s where you should be using some of the tools and technologies chances are, you’re going to use either our or Python because those are open source languages. And they are sort of the the gold standards in data science and machine learning especially are because if it’s statistical background, another language you will probably run into, certainly in the corporate world will be SPSS.

    But

    avoid looking at courses that promise very specific technologies. We all know that the technology landscape is always changing, that something that is is hot today may be gone tomorrow.

    And you don’t want to be the the data science equivalent of that person who specialized in my space, right person who specialize now in Google Plus, you want to be the person who knows how to do things like regression and prediction and clustering and all the techniques and that’s tool agnostic. So of course, is leading with, you’re going to learn these technologies, these hot market technologies, okay, as opposed to, you’re going to learn the fundamentals of how to do the thing and how to do it intelligently, no matter what tools on the market when you look at something, for example, like IBM Watson studio is drag and drop modules from SPSS and the neural network modeler and all these different techniques and you look at this long list of techniques like the all the Basie and clustering you have in the neural model, you have boosting and all this stuff.

    If a data science course has prepared you. Well, you should look down that list of techniques of all the things you can drag and drop in the interface and go Yep, I know what that one does. Yep, I know what that one does. Yep, I know what that one does. I know I know when to use it. I know when in what sequence to put these blocks in. And that’s the most important thing is knowing conceptually what order to put the things in where to put a when to use them when not to use them. And so of course, that’s heavy on the algorithms heavy on the techniques. The third thing that you definitely want to look for is you want to look for a course that has a at least one if not a complete standalone course on ethics. Data ethics is one of the most critical pieces of data science, it is one of the most overlooked and it is the quality indicator, of course, so

    for example,

    when you go to a sushi restaurant, there are three things you look at number one, you look at the color of the tuna, if a tuna is kind of a bright red

    tuna should generally be a dark red, we look at the color of the avocado, the color is anything other than vibrant green, yellow,

    it’s been sitting out too long. And he’s so you know, the, the, the food doesn’t turn over that fast, or they prepare their stuff way in advance and shouldn’t have third and this is the the, the quality indicator of a sushi restaurant Do they have fresh rosov, the best sushi restaurants have fresh wasabi fresh from Warsaw real wasabi, not colored horseradish. And as well, there’s little gimmicks you learn. But it it tells you very much about that restaurant based on

    that one will ingredient. The same thing is true in data science.

    If there is an ethics component that is prominent in the course description, you know, you got a winning course, you know that you got a course that has been well thought out. Because someone who wants to get up to speed as fast as possible in 10 weeks or less

    ethic. Ethics isn’t their thing right there, they want to

    kind of person that attracts is someone who just wants to ride the wave and get up and running as fast as possible, not someone who wants to learn it thoroughly and have thoughtful consideration about what techniques to use. And therefore they’re not going to sit through an ethics course. But someone who really wants to know the thing is going to take the ethics course and be okay with having that be a part of the curriculum part of the time that they invest. So look for that. That’s the indicator of a great ethics of a great data science courses. Having that that’s that little is that little sushi moment right there within the courses. So those are the things to look for now, are there good courses to

    take? Yes,

    look at the the statistical courses within the mathematics department at major universities, MIT, Stanford, all these things. And by the way, a fair number of the actual classes are available for free. You don’t need to pay 510, 15,20,000

    in order to learn the stuff what you paid for, when you take a course or a degree like that is you’re paying for the name, you’re paying for the certification, basically, the MIT or whoever says, yep, you know, the thing, you passed our exams, we validate that you know, the thing, but to actually get the knowledge itself. So many of these these individual classes on things like statistics and probability and such are completely and totally free. They’re available online. So if you want the knowledge, go get the knowledge first. And it’s a good way, by the way to test yourself to see like, Okay, I’m going to go and take stats one on one, if you just can’t stomach it is Oh, my God, what did I do? You didn’t pay money for it, right? You didn’t shell out five or 10 grand for the for the certification, you know, just from the first course thought my thing and and you can go and focus on something that you do want to be good at. So make sure that you try out some of those courses. But yes, definitely look at reputable schools that have strong stats and math programs like the MIT Sullivan Stanford’s of the world as a starting point. So great question, important question, very important question about what is real and what is not in the data science. Well, thanks for asking. And as always, if you have if you have questions your own leave them in the comments here or leave them on my website and subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter

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  • Win With AI: IBM Cloud Private for Data & Watson Studio

    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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  • #WinWithAI: How To Leverage The Value of Data

    #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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