Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Get Smart on a Client’s Industry Fast

    You Ask, I Answer_ How to Get Smart on a Client's Industry Fast

    Monica asks, “How do I create good content for an industry I’m unfamiliar with?”

    I had a colleague in the PR industry who called this getting smart, fast, and she used the time-honored technique of reading and researching via Google, news sources, and social media subject matter experts. This is a time-tested approach that works, but it doesn’t often uncover little gems. Some additional things to try:

    • Use the GDELT database to search and extract news topics from the Google News back-end
    • Use SEO tools like AHREFs to find top ranked pages for the industry
    • Use Google Scholar to find the most cited papers in the last 12 months
    • Use AI to summarize the results – Watson Discovery is probably easiest for non-technical users

    Discovering what’s hot is an iterative process. Expect it to take some time, but with the tools above, you’ll find unique questions to ask your subject matter experts.

    Disclosure: I am an IBM Champion and receive non-financial benefits for promoting IBM products and services.

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    In today’s episode, Monica asks, How do I create good content for an industry I’m unfamiliar with,

    especially if the client is not forthcoming about about things their expert on now I had a colleague in my old agency who used to call this getting smart. And what you would do is before a client meeting or a big pitch for to win a new customer. I’m shoots spend a couple days just doing the time on a technique of reading and researching via Google new sources following a couple social media experts. And this this is a time tested approach. It works really well and it gives you a good lay of the land. Now what it doesn’t do is it doesn’t uncover little gems it doesn’t uncover things that you’d be able to then go to a true subject matter expert like someone at your client asked them interesting questions to elicit.

    their point of view because many times when you’re talking about creating great content, you’re talking about a unique point of view and unique perspective that isn’t in available in in the, the stuff that you can easily Google. So what are some ways we can do that? Now there’s about three or four different ways to extract some useful information. Obviously, starting with Google News is a great place you typing in clinical psychology, clinical therapy in psychology here, we’ll get you some news sources. And then you have a if you have if you have not taken a Google News power searching course, you really should, because it gives you the ability to prune out stuff. So in this case, there’s a whole bunch of versions of the story about some some person running for office and Alabama. I’m not interested in that because it’s not part of creating content about the field of clinical therapy psychology. So knocking stuff out is a very useful way to start on Google News. Using it this way is a very straightforward way you can find that the top general terms another way to do this as if you are familiar with Google’s big question.

    database which is a massive Big Data Store, you can actually query the database directly and get some interesting and useful information that way. However, it requires you to be fluent in sequel, the database discovery language, and many folks are not so. But keep that in mind. It’s part of a project that Google once called g dealt, which is summarizing the world’s news. The second way I like to approach things with SEO tools, SEO tools allow, like in this case, I’m using RFC here and allow you to understand what’s being linked to what’s out there. So let’s look at clinical therapy for psychology which is the topic that Monica was asking about specifically

    and I can look through here and and start understanding the basics of what’s being shared what’s being linked to we can restrict to a higher quality domains here to remove some of the junk stuff that’s out there. And we can also specify things like languages time period and things like that to get a better under

    Standing of what’s happening. So cognitive behavioral therapy. So stuff like massage therapy, we probably want to knock out of our results as well to try and refine it and tune it up. One of the other things like to look for is keywords and what sites rank wealth with us and you can do this with regular Google. But having an SEO tool gives you in many cases, some better perspectives

    therapists versus ecologist what’s the difference from the therapists and psychologists some a little more refinement and getting a sense of what websites are out there like the APA is a credible organization obviously that they would have a lot of data that we could use to extract out interesting perspectives and or news in their space. A third service that I enjoy using is called Google Scholar. Google Scholar allows you to query psychology any any academic papers, this isn’t especially useful tool if you’re tackling an academic field where there’s a lot of publishing and where you might not necessarily have stuff in general, Google News or or general

    Social media in fact, you know, some of the most reputable people in a field, probably like five followers on Twitter, because it’s a are they are so specialized that they their work has exclusively within the, the the academic domain. So in this case I pulled together clinical therapy psychology and restricted since 2017 because we want sort of new and different perspectives and if you scroll through, you can see there are all these different academic papers and publications and books that you can reference many of them have PDF that you can download the PDFs and read through them and and look at down here for some interesting additional terms to search for that you may not necessarily know because you’re not an expert in the domain. But with these terms. And with these papers, you can get a sense of what’s cutting edge in the field. Now if you want to take this up yet another notch. You can take all the papers that are open to the public that have a PDF link and feed them to artificial intelligence and say artificial intelligence. Please help me summarize and explore

    What’s in the box so that I can get a better sense of the field? I’m going to use Watson discovery here. Watson discovery allows you to load you these papers in as documents and then it goes through and explores them and tries to understand what’s happening inside the box. So you can sentiment in very specific terms cognitive behavioral therapy, major depressive disorder,

    making come up with hierarchy and keywords and stuff like that. Let’s go ahead and query

    what is depressive disorder

    and this is now asking questions just to these academic papers. So I can look at a very very narrow perspective

    what signing teachers meta cognitive therapy, what is what’s new and effective? The third way of cognitive behavioral therapies now we’re getting into stuff that is very interesting These are the questions that you would go straight to your subject matter expert for because these are things that you don’t know as as a an outsider to the field but a subject matter experts going to have a lot of perspective

    I’m a lot of very strong opinions on. And frankly, we don’t know what we don’t know here how prevalent our anxiety disorders and schizophrenia now we get into the good stuff. Now we’re getting to the stuff that you can create great content about, because it may not be out there. Or if it is out there, it’s not going to be your clients perspective, or your company’s perspective. And so using Watson discovery as a way to extract out these things from these academic papers that you might not otherwise be able to read through without getting all the the goodness out of them. And so that’s using AI to start summarizing these things. And because Watson can take in PDFs, HTML, Word documents and stuff, if your client also has data internally, like, Hey, you don’t just send me you know, make sure your NDA is in place and just send me the last 500, you know, internal documents about that throat and discovery and say, Okay, now we can ask questions to build really, really insightful content, especially if it’s from those subject matter experts, so

    That’s the process of using some upper level tools to really get to some unique perspectives. Watson discovering the incarnation. I’m running it here. There’s a free plan that allows you to set up one project and load I think 2 million documents and ask up to 1000 queries a month before we have to start paying for it. But but it is relatively inexpensive. Otherwise,

    the first thousand queries are free. So something you can try out, play around with

    SEO tools, your average SEO tool is going to be between 75 and $300 a month. These are tools that have a lot of dual purposes. So you should have if you are in the marketing profession, you should have at least one in your portfolio. And obviously the one I’m using here is called RF, Sarah, a bunch of other ones as well. Google News is free, Google Scholar is free. So you can see that many of the sources are very, very low cost and or free and can help you build those extra insights. So great question, Monica. This process will take your content to the next level and really help you show your client Hey

    I am on the ball. And this is true for anybody who works in house at an agency, whatever. This is how you get great answers. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon. Take care if you want help with your company’s data and analytics. Visit Trust Insights calm today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: How to Identify Fake Influencers

    You Ask, I Answer_ How To Identify Fake Influencers

    Grace asks, “There’s been a lot of news about people who fake being an influencer by buying followers and colluding with groups of influencers. How do you identify fake influencers?”

    Great question.  Let’s first discuss what brands actually want, even if they can’t measure it effectively.

    • Awareness
    • Engagement
    • Action

    Second, let’s identify the ways someone can fake influence.

    • Share bots
    • Paid followings
    • Pods are a gray area

    Which fake tactics are the worst? Paid followings – because they’re generally bots, and bot followers won’t do anything to increase actual awareness. Share bots aren’t as terrible, because there’s a non-zero chance they share a piece of content with actual humans. We’ve all read how effective bots were in influencing politics. They couldn’t have done that if they were sharing only to other bots. Pods – even though pods are considered a black hat tactic in influencer marketing, the reality is that they work and they don’t damage a brand’s goals.

    Given the above, how do we identify bad actors? Combining a few metrics helps us identify warning flags to examine likely problems.

    •  Groups that self-reinforce in a network graph
    • Entities that broadcast but never have anyone talking about them
    • Entities that have distorted metrics (thousands of likes, not a single comment, etc.)

    Watch the video for full details and an example in fashion influencers.

    You Ask, I Answer: Identifying Fake Influencers
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    In today’s episode, Grace asks, there’s been a lot of news about people who fake being an influencer by buying followers and colluding with groups of influencers. How do you identify fake influencers? Great question. Generally speaking, people behave in certain ways. And when you see accounts that have data that skews pretty far from that, that’s a way to identify likely problems. So let’s first discuss what brands actually want in social media, when they’re working with influencers, even if they’re not particularly good at measuring it, there’s three general pockets, right. So a brand will want awareness and alternatively, or in addition to awareness or affinity to consumers like that brand. They want engagement people talking to the brand liking, commenting on stuff like that sharing and then want action they want stuff that leads to business results can be website traffic, it could be purchase right on the social network. But you know, Instagram offers shopping right on board, it could be

    filling out a lead form, it could be showing up at a retail store, it could be promoting being an evangelist for that ran into and and wearing their logo and stuff on on your apparel. And so those are some of the ways that that’s something that brands are looking for. So

    with that, what are the ways that you can fake influence? Well, there’s there’s three or four different ways with bots fake accounts, robotic accounts, there are there are share bots which will automatically share anything that you know, they pick up content and reshare it over and over again, there are paid followings. We can buy followers. And there are these things called pods, which are kind of a gray area pods are private groups of people who collude behind the scenes to promote something in a Facebook group in Slack channel, whatever, you just see the effects of it, but you don’t necessarily see the conversations and agreeing Hey, we’re gonna prove it promotes Susan stuff this week. So Susan is going to be the rock star that you can next week, George is your turn. Now, which of these tactics are the worst? From a brand perspective, generally speaking, paid followings are the worst because their butts and bought followers don’t do anything to increase actual awareness or actual trust or affinity and a brand.

    If someone buys 30,000 followers, they had 1000 the start with Yes, they may be seeing, oh, you know, you may be sharing to an audience of 30,000 on paper, but you really like sharing to an audience 1000 people share bots aren’t as bad because there’s a nonzero chance that they share a piece of content with actual human

    we saw this we read about it’s been in the news about how effective

    bots were in influencing politics and influencing elections. I know they could not have done that, that if they were sharing only two other bots, they were able to engage with actual people promote a message those people want to promote and

    get a good result.

    And then on the third one is pods. Even though pods are considered a black hat tactic by a lot of folks in social media, the reality is they work and they don’t damage of brands goals. Right. If a brand’s goals are awareness, engagement and action, get 500 parents sharing a link.

    That’s not a bad thing. That is

    the belief that pods are bad assumes that you only care about individual influencers, if you can get an entire group of moderately influential people to do something Mission accomplished. So

    given all that above, how do you identify bad actors? The answer, unsurprisingly, is analytics. What we’re looking for in our data are anomalies, right. So we want to identify groups that self reinforce entities that bro broadcast a lot, but never had anyone talking about them. And entities that have distorted metrics, where there’s like, you know, millions of one metric and zero of something else. So what we’ve got on screen here, this is from a piece of software called, and it requires social media monitoring data. So I have separate software that pulls in the data cleans, it prepares it to be useful in network graphics software. But let’s take a look at some of the metrics in here as a way to identify in fake influences. If we look at 25,000 conversations or so about fashion, you can see there’s really no no easy way to understand what you’re looking at. But what we’re looking for is this measure here, this, this, it’s called eigenvector sensuality. And what it is, is a measure of how many people talk about you versus how many people you talk about, a lot of these networks do a lot of broadcasting, but not a lot of receiving because they have no influence. They particularly on fake follower funds. So anything that has just no connections on that graph at all. And none of this, the sensuality measure is clearly not something that’s going to be influential. And as we as we go down the list here, you can see the influence of still zero, even though there are some accounts to have in this case, like, yeah, this one’s got broadcasting 49 different conversations. But no, but he’s talking about in the the influence measure, still zero. So all that was going to get rid of all those people in the network graph. And then there’s some accounts get post and re grant and stuff that clearly also don’t add anything to the conversation. So we’ll go ahead and get rid of that. And now we rerun this. And this is a process you do a few times to clean and refine the network graph until you have something that is usable, going through

    this process.

    Going through Now, a few iterations, we’ve gotten rid of everything that is not influential in the sense of contributing to the graph and look how much neater and clean to this graph is. Now let’s go ahead and actually put some names and clustering on this. And if we look carefully, now, we see this is super tight, evenly sized clusters, those are pods now, whether they are pods that are human or bought doesn’t matter that we know we can identify through the fact that they have these self referential loops within each other, that they are almost certainly automated compound that with the fact that these are probably not necessarily folks that you have heard of, and that they share all share similar names. And we’ve successfully identified that these are clusters that we will probably want to discount or filter out in our monitoring software. So that’s what one of the things that comes next is in the process. Once you identify the bad actors, you don’t just delete them and and go at the rescue, then feed that back into your social media monitoring system train and teach it like these accounts to not pay attention to and over time what will happen is you’ll get a much cleaner view of the landscape because you’ll be able to remove that stuff from your all your monitoring, once you’ve done a few passes of that you then start to see more natural networks of things that appear actually like networks rather than just a couple of big self referential clusters. And that’s when you know you’ve arrived at an influencer list that is meaningful that is going to get you reach into a community which is the whole point to get that awareness to get that engagement and to get that action so that we would be able to say like this this person here who is highly interactive within this particular Instagram community is the influencer so if this is a group that we care about, then that’s going to get us the the juice that we were looking for. This is not easy stuff this is all machine learning and network graphing and statistics and stuff so and and to do it for a really large space would require some decently heavy compute time so that’s one of the reasons why you don’t see more of this in the influencer marketing space and why companies even companies that are reputable otherwise it’s social media monitoring why they’re in influencer identification algorithm. So so bad because this stuff requires really heavy iron in order to to get you the answers that you want about who’s actually influential. So your best bet as a if you’re running influencer, identification for a brand for client is to have a narrower context and dig into that very specific context. Rather than trying to go after a huge topic. Like all fashion, you’re going to need super computer power to tackle all fashion or all food. If there’s a specific thing like I want the top influencer about Gouda cheese, you’re probably going to do a little bit better. So great question. Grace of a complicated question. And as you can see, require some heavy lifting in order to be able to identify things in the data and, and clean your data properly to get to the insights you’re looking for.

    But this is how you do it. And it’s now up to vendors and and providers and stuff to be able to refine that and turn that into a product that doesn’t require a data scientist to do gap. And of course, if if there’s something you need to have done, get a data scientist to do it for you.

    Because again, a lot of what’s on the market right now the software isn’t up to doing this sort of heavy back end research. So as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Understanding the Data Lifecycle

    You Ask, I Answer_ Understanding the Data Lifecycle

    Kevin asks, “What’s the difference between unrefined and refined data?”

    As part of a larger discussion about metrics in marketing, Kevin’s question came up in reference to the importance of data. Unrefined data is as useful to business as crude oil is to a car – which is to say, it isn’t useful at all. In fact, like crude oil put in a car’s gas tank, unrefined data can be just as harmful to a business. Only when data has passed through the data lifecycle will it transform into business impact.

    Watch the video to understand the complete data lifecycle.

    You Ask, I Answer: Understanding the Data Lifecycle
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    In today’s you ask I answer. Kevin asks, What’s the difference between refined and unrefined data? This is in response to a discussion thread we were having with the the PR student chat on Friday about the usefulness of data. One of the things I like to say is that data is the new oil, which is a great analogy. This is an expression I heard first in 2006. And when you think about it, it makes total sense because data by itself like crude oil, not super useful, right? It’s kind of messy, sticky, gunky the crude oil doesn’t burn very well unrefined you know uncleaned data doesn’t analyze very well doesn’t certainly doesn’t give you insights and things. So what does it mean when we talk about refined versus on refined data data has to go through a process the same as crude oil in terms of how we turn into a usable product. And that’s the data life cycle. So let’s go ahead and bring the

    Up here,

    this is the data lifecycle from red to green around the circle, all the different steps that you need to, to be able to take to process your data and turn it into something useful. So each step can take a tremendous amount of time, depending on the size of the data, how clean it is, where you’re getting it from, whether has to be merged with any other forms of data. So all that stuff has to be taken into account as you start working with your data. So let’s dig into this. What exactly is is in the box as it were, when we’re talking about the data life cycle, you first have to ingest your data, which means you take it in from whatever sources you’ve got new data from, that could be databases, it could be unstructured data, like social media data or news articles. If we’re talking about public relations, it could be machinery data, or aircraft engine data, depending on on what kind of data we’re working with. We’ve got ingest it which means we’ve got to take it in and get it into some kind of format that we can then start to work on the next thing to do is

    You do your analysis, you you look at the data and see what condition is it in? This is the first step in what’s typically called exploratory data analysis. And this is what’s data is missing what data looks like, there are anomalies are there, formatting problems, things like that, once you’ve done your analysis, you repair it, how do you fix the data, make it compatible with the systems you’re going to be working with. You fill in missing values, if you need to do amputations, stuff like that. The next step is to clean the data, which is to remove incorrect data, again, with depending on what you’re working with. This could be system anomalies. This could be interference. If you’re working in public relations, and you’re trying to get an understanding of a media space, you have to really feel the last year so you’ve had to include filters for certain politicians by name because they seem to soak up and inject themselves into every single news story that it hasn’t even things have nothing to do with your client. So that’s sort of this cleaning process.

    Once you’ve done the clean, you prepare the data for analysis. And that means typically

    do restructuring it as needed of reformatting it. So for those who are database geeks, and this is going from either normalization or do normalization, making data work with the software that you’re going to be working with. The next step is augmentation, which is when you take data and you add additional data to it. This is especially important in machine learning where you’ll need to classify or quantify or provide other insights to your data. So that may mean for example, turning qualitative variables into into semi quantitative by transforming it into dummy variables, you may need to add additional data from the outside or emerging additional data sets once you’re ready to start processing the data beginning by more exploration, what are the connections what are the correlations and and what are the unusual things you can find that the data you compare? It depends especially

    Doing machine learning with other models. If you if you are doing

    validation, you’ll have a test, a training data center test data set. But you’re going to compare your data to other known good data sets to make sure that you’re getting valid conclusions or potential conclusions. And then you move on to really what’s the predictive portion of the data, which is, in a lot of ways, like a hypothesis in the scientific method. I mean, it is hypothesis and the scientific method, you predict what the date is, it tells you and then you prescribe where you come up with a solution for what to do based on that data. And depending on the model you’re building that may be something that a human does, he made hand off that that may be a part of the process. We’re handoff some analysis to another part of business. It may also be a machine that does the prescriptive work that says, Okay, I’m going to take it all new data and use it and match it up with the existing data. This is modeling This is the modeling portion where you take all those predictions and progressive

    and turn them into machine rules. ways that you can deploy your data in a in a scalable way. And then you validate the model. you test it, make sure that it works that I works as intended. And you in a lot in many ways you you check to see is your hypothesis correct or incorrect is a true or false as with all things in the scientific method, a hypothesis is a true or false statement. So you want to make sure that your data gives you your model gives you that answer. Once you validated it, you move on to refining and how can you tune it up and improve it without overfitting it to make it as accurate as possible, as refined as possible and then you deploy your model across your business that can help all the business users with their data. Then you observe what happened when you rolled out this model. Did the the end result that you were looking for get better or did you create a result that you didn’t have before. Now that is a lot to cover in just about

    Five minutes here of the data life cycle. But all of these steps are connected, some of them are automated, some of them are not. Some of them use human judgment. Some of them use machine judgment. But all of these are parts of the state of life cycle that you need to go through in order to to really get the most out of your data to turn it into that refined product that

    that the business can use that your users and your and your business stakeholders can make practical use of when you think about measurement and analytics in whatever discipline you’re in. from public relations to trance oceanic shipping,

    the one thing is missing from this is sort of the overall strategy. What’s the goal of the data and that that happens outside of the life cycle that happens before you even touch data is what’s the goal and then what are and how do you know you’re going to get to a goal, what tactics what choices will you make, and then how will you execute the data life cycle so that’s the one thing I would say.

    is not here that it is presumed that you have done in advance before you start working with data in order to make refined data, refined data can take a very long time to put together. Refined data can be very difficult, very expensive, good. And that’s why data scientists are in such high demand right now. And so be prepared for that. When you begin your data journey, be prepared that it’s going to take a while and that it’s the answers will not always be obvious. And that that it will take a lot of effort to turn it into a truly usable product. But once you do, your business will scale faster than you can possibly imagine. Because you’ve got the data and other people don’t or the people’s data may not be as good if they haven’t followed the process as well. And that’s how you turn your data into a competitive advantage. you execute the data lifecycle better and faster than your competitors. That’s why artificial intelligence and machine learning are so critical now to data because the value

    You have AI is acceleration and accuracy, better data, faster data. So you go from data insights to deployed strategies so much faster when you have a on your side. So great question, Kevin great discussion about how we can be using data. And as you can see, no matter what profession you’re in, this is going to have a major impact on every line of business. The faster you get to embrace machine learning and artificial intelligence, the faster you’ll take advantage of the data you have and turn it into business impact. Thanks for the question. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • Friday Feeling: What Will Our Data Be Used For?

    Friday Feeling_ What Will Our Data Be Used For_

    One of the consequences of machine learning is that our data is part of a mosaic of data used for training. We’ve voluntarily given companies enormous amounts of information and while, historically, they’ve been really bad at using it in any meaningful way, that will change.

    Companies who want to get ahead of the curve will need to ask for consent to use customer data for machine learning and may even ask for permission for specific attributes, or to infer attributes from provided data.

    GDPR hints at the future: consumers – us – must insist on rights to our data and how it’s used. If we want a data-rich future that’s not abused, we as consumers must insist on companies asking permission for explicit use cases and otherwise disallowing other uses of our data.

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    In today’s Friday feeling,

    thinking and feeling about consumer information today, it has been a turbulent week in the news and what’s happening to people, particularly when data is not collected. And data is not being used in an intelligent way and how we are using data.

    One of the consequences of machine learning for those who have been following along about how machine learning data is used, is that our data our the information that we give, either voluntarily or in an inferred manner is used to train machines. It’s it’s part of a mosaic. And while our individual information may not be

    terribly useful in and of itself, when it’s part of that big collection, that mosaic of training data it becomes useful when you have characters

    Six of age and gender and online behavior and preferences and search terms and social posts and emotions in text. All of that is a really rich corpus of information that machines can use to build models and to even expand and infer things. If

    we talk about machine learning and human resources, it’s one of the most risky areas to use machine learning because we can create

    week associations and inferred values that we should not be using in in human resources. For example, if you took the movies and books and songs and and political causes that somebody believed in and liked from Facebook data, for example, you could infer with an incredible degree of accuracy, their age, their gender, their ethnicity, and all of these things of course, that you are disallowed explicitly disallowed from using in human resource

    And so

    how that data is used is really important.

    We voluntarily given companies, particularly social networks, and large technology companies, enormous amounts of information for for a while. And the more we do business online, with vendors with new services with

    a group or local grocery store,

    the more those pieces of data can be used. Now, historically, companies and the larger the company, the more true this tends to be, I have been really bad using data, they stuff it in desk drawers and stuff and just let it languish

    but that’s beginning to change and companies as the machine learning technology as the AI technology becomes more available becomes more

    accessible that’s starting to change and so

    we have to give some thought to how our

    Our data is going to be used and what it’s going to be used for. We see that already happening. look at Europe and the GDP. Our legislation that that was it past two years ago and began to be enforced this past May

    in GDP, our consumers gain back the right to

    some of how they do data is use the right to provide affirmative consent for different purposes, the right to be forgotten the right to port their data from one company to another

    that’s a hint at the future

    as as time goes on consumers planetary will need to insist on rights to the data and how it’s used. And one of the things that I think is probably going to come up at some point once

    once you have a couple of really big machine learning scandals will be

    companies asking for consent to use custom

    for machine learning purposes.

    Train machines and may even need to ask permission for either specific attributes to that data, or

    for the privilege of creating inferred data sets from it. So, again, going back to that earlier example,

    with movies and books and songs with those three data fields,

    again, you can make some very strong inferences about age and gender, ethnicity,

    possibly even language spoken and things like that

    the consumers not providing that information, but a machine can learn it from a training data set and and use it with a high degree of accuracy.

    It is not unreasonable to think that consumers would earn the right or would reclaim the right I should say

    to say to a company you may not infer anything from my data or you may only infer likely

    Purchase behavior or you may only infer

    advertising targeting

    or you are explicitly disallowed from inferring age or gender or ethnicity or religion. Because those use cases again, we’re creating inferred data that has the same potential impact on us as if we’d actually provided that data. So just as it would be inappropriate for say a grocery store say oh what’s your orientation like why does that matters to me them friggin bag of apples

    with the data we provide and the data that can be inferred, we we may want to give some serious thought to saying no, you may not infer orientation from my data. You may not infer any demographic data. You may only infer for a limited use case

    if we as a society and consumers don’t.

    insist upon these rights and build. And as we as business folks don’t build our systems with this perspective, it is likely we will get ourselves into a lot of hot water, it is likely that we will

    potentially cost ourselves massive legal exposure. The first person who doesn’t get hired and can provably demonstrate that a machine discriminated against them is going to open up a can of worms. Even more importantly,

    with all the discussion about how

    Facebook in particular but technology in general can impact things like elections and operation of free societies.

    There’s such a tremendous potential for the data that is is out there to be misused in ways that we can’t even necessarily forecast suppose for example,

    you had a trading data set that said this potential

    portion of the population tends not to vote during certain elections. Like they don’t show up at the midterm elections, they only show up at the the big elections and they have these characteristics and you are able to infer age and gender and orientation and ethnicity and religion.

    With that you could then run voter suppression advertising to the rest of that segment and potentially change the outcome of an election even if you never had the those characteristics because you were just able to use machine learning to and fro. So

    we as as technologists, as business people, as marketers, as data, scientists need to be very careful about what we use

    and have to start thinking in terms of consent for the use cases for personal data. As consumers we definitely need to give some thought about what data we give to companies but also start asking for companies I want

    Want to opt into certain uses for my data, and I want to otherwise globally opt out of use cases that I’m not giving you specific explicit permission for.

    That’s the only way we we prevent machine learning technology from being badly misused.

    And

    in the long term, it serves all of our benefit consumers and business people to have a future where people will give us permission. Because if we don’t do that, then at some point again, something bad will happen. And we will globally lose the right to do some of these really cool techniques because some idiot

    did the wrong thing. So a lot of a lot of potential problems down the road that we can today

    mitigate by thinking in a consent first way for machine learning data, so

    Today’s Friday feeling as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter. Hopefully

    I can promise you we won’t be using any of that. I won’t be using any of that for machine learning. So please subscribe and talk to you soon. Take care

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  • #FridayFeeling: The Future of Agencies in an AI World

    Friday Feeling_ The Future of Agencies in an AI World

    In today’s #FridayFeeling, some thoughts about the future of agencies in an AI-powered business world.

    Great agencies provide four core benefits:

    • Raw talent to do the work (saving time and possibly money)
    • Domain expertise and experience
    • Scalability
    • Less overhead

    In other words, agencies offer the same benefits that many tout for AI. What must agencies do to avoid being replaced by AI?

    • Outrace clients to adopt technology faster and better (temporary increase to margins)
    • Outrace clients to build domain knowledge about AI in the vertical (providing training, counsel, strategy, possibly even data)
    • Build systems they own (or lock in strategic partners) and can offer on subscription – agencies already well familiar with retainers, which is a fancy word for subscription
    • Double down on creativity, judgement, and multidisciplinary strategy

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    In today’s Friday feeling some thoughts and feelings about agencies in an AI world and by agencies, I mean any kind of third party organizations, so recruiting agency staffing agencies, ad agencies, marketing agencies, PR agencies,

    all those companies that provide services to other businesses.

    When we think about it when you think about it, agencies really provide what

    a handful of obvious benefits right they provide raw talent to do the work which saves the company the client time and money because the client doesn’t have to hire the talent and especially if it’s an in demand talent up to try and source agencies theoretically already got it.

    agencies provide domain expertise and experience,

    especially if they’ve had a team that’s been in in the field for a long time. And you get some folks, you know, the gray haired folks who’ve got a couple of decades doing work in food and beverage, or SAS, software, whatever the case may be, they have the domain expertise, agencies provide scalability, the ability to get results faster. And

    behind the scenes, the client has no idea how many people necessarily are working on a project so the agent agency can add people and adds the ability to do more work theoretically faster than a company can do it in house, especially a bigger companies where

    you know, it could take nine months just to hire one person you can it can scale much faster by just using a third party and having an operating expense rather than an HR expense and agencies offer the benefit.

    Less overhead because again, especially as companies get bigger, every hire, you make costs, benefits and salary and a whole bunch of other stuff that you can add 2030, 40%

    on top of the base salary. So those benefits the talent, scalability expertise,

    reduce overhead. Those are what agencies promised their clients and

    the best agencies absolutely offer those. So lotion sound awfully familiar, right? Because those benefits are what many folks tout, as also the benefits of artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence can provide more more workers far more than humans because you can spin up more compute instances, right? There’s less overhead because you’re not using humans. There’s scalability because technology scales really fast and with the the ability to

    Create machines that think and that can ingest large training data sets. They get that domain expertise, they get a domain experience. So what does an agency do to avoid being replaced by AI? Right? That’s a really important question if they both offer the same benefits, but the AI is something that especially if you build it in house you own Why do you need the agency?

    Well, so what’s an agency supposed to do? What should agencies be doing to compete in an AI world

    thanks for things number one, agencies have to outrageous clients to adopt technology faster and better than their clients. This provides a temporary increase the margins because the technology obviously if you’re if you’re getting paid $20,000

    a month to do X, and your costs are 18,000 because humans if you adopt that AI technology

    First, and you can bring that cost down to 10, then obviously, your margins get much better. So you’ll, you’ll, for a short period of time, five, two to five years, you’ll get significantly better margins.

    But by having that technology faster and better, especially if you work with bigger and bigger clients that are slower and slower to move, you will obviously reap those benefits and also would allow you to as an agency to work with a bigger range of clients. Because again, if you have if you’re using humans, you want to use your expensive humans on the most lucrative clients. If you’re using machine you could point it at like, you know, the local convenience store and do good work for them. And it would take seconds to do that not work as opposed to, you know, the humans parts that don’t scale as well. So it also opens up the field to more and different kinds of clients.

    The second thing agencies need to do is build domain knowledge about AI in their vertical and this is something that they again they have to

    outraised clients to do if you’re a staffing agency you better be building and the domain knowledge you need about how AI can be used in staffing so that you can provide training and counsel and strategy and maybe even training data sets to clients

    to help them do their work faster. So that domain knowledge is super important.

    agencies have to build that faster than the clients and retain that knowledge

    agencies need to start building systems either that they own or that they lock in strategic partners and can offer on a subscription to to their clients. Here’s where agencies I didn’t have an advantage over over regular companies. They are already familiar with

    the the retainers. A retainer is just a kind of a more highbrow word for subscription everybody understands subscriptions you pay for Netflix.

    So

    if agencies can build those systems or lock in strategic partners to help them, build those systems or run them for them, then that becomes something that they can offer to strengthen that relationship. It’s very much like the old client server models in the 1990s where

    a company that provided you the infrastructure really locked you in. And it was very difficult to switch to switch infrastructures. So it’s a something that agencies could do to help secure those clients providing those super valuable systems that they can’t get somewhere else. And finally, on the people side, agencies have to double down on the human aspects that they bring creativity, judgment, empathy, multidisciplinary strategy, multidisciplinary experience getting people have very different diverse backgrounds that can put their heads together and come up with solutions that machines can’t.

    Because machines right now can’t do multi disciplinary thinking they’re most AI right now and really commercially for the next two to five years is still going to be very narrow, narrow applications of AI. It’s you’re not going to have that general purpose stuff. Because that’s just not where

    that’s just not where the machines are going yet, they will get there eventually.

    So if agencies do not want to be supplanted by AI, they’ve got to move much, much faster and build that that knowledge, that expertise about artificial intelligence and begin using it themselves

    and by AI also incorporates machine learning deep learning all the buzzwords of the day. But agencies have got to have that first and better than their clients so that those clients particularly as they go, you go up the food chain and they’re lagging further and further behind. They can provide real value to the clients while enjoying the benefits of AI those that scalability that low overhead

    The better margins. Once you have a training data set and software and things for a discipline or an industry, then it becomes easier. Every single client you bring on after that becomes easier and easier and easier to offer significantly better services and things. So those agencies that are willing to take the plunge and jump in are going to see significant competitive advantage against other agencies and against, you know, the AI is themselves because Google’s not going to make a purpose built

    ad agency application for convenience stores that belt they’ll have a general purpose system but it will still need a lot of tuning the agencies can provide that expertise to either to general purpose tools or help them customized and even build their own. So

    some thoughts today about

    the future agencies in an AI world it’s going to be an exciting times gonna be a scary time.

    those agencies that are not doubling down on their technology and they’re building the domain knowledge are going to be in a lot of trouble those that that jump in

    feet first both you’re both feet in know dipping your toe they could build sustainable competitive advantage that would be difficult for laggards to overcome. So good news for the bold bad news for the tentative.

    So that’s the Friday feeling. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Data Analytics, Intelligence, and Science

    You Ask, I Answer_ Data Analytics, Intelligence, and Science

    Yariv asks, “What are the differences between data analytics, data science, business analytics, and business intelligence?”

    It depends on who you ask. Thanks to consulting and marketing, these terms all have varying degrees of overlaps, and companies which make their money on clarifying terms like this – consulting shops – often have conflicting definitions. You’ll get a different answer, and sometimes an opposing answer, if you ask a McKinsey consultant and then ask a Deloitte consultant.

    Based on a roundup of existing literature, we classify these terms based on whether they are past or future looking, and how technical or non-technical the various tools and processes are. To be clear, a business needs all four; this isn’t an aspirational contest to reach one magic corner of the diagram.

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    On today’s you ask I answer your reef. I hope that’s how you pronounce your name asks, What are the differences between data analytics data science, business analytics and business intelligence?

    Well, depends on who you ask.

    Thanks to marketing,

    sorry, and consulting. These terms all have varying degrees of overlap. And

    companies that make their money on

    on perspectives and positions on terms like these mostly consulting shops often have conflicting or oppositional answers, you’ll get a different answer. For example, She asked McKinsey consultant for their definitions, and then you go ask a Deloitte Consulting or Forrester consultant, you’re going to get totally different answers. Even

    within those organizations, depending on which

    division you’re talking to, you may get very different answers. So

    based on a roundup of existing literature, you can classify these four terms, data analytics, business, analytics, data, science, business intelligence, based on whether they’re their past, or future looking and how technical or non technical they are. So let’s, let’s look at a diagram of these, put this up here, and,

    and walk through this. So

    on the bottom of the diagram below, we see the types of analytics we’re doing the types of analysis, are we doing descriptive, which is what happened, what’s, what’s in the data? What does the data tell us and diagnostic to the extent that you can, why did something happen? And then on

    as you move further to the right on the diagram, you see predictive

    and prescriptive analytics. This is

    can

    you build a model the forecast the future

    and can you build a model that tells you what to do on the vertical axis, we have less or more technical, so less technical tools and processes for business users, people who are not analysts or data scientists by profession, they just your average executive or line of business user, and they want to log into a friendly interface and get some answers.

    And then as you go up

    the the chart, it is

    more technical users. So analysts, statisticians, data scientists, programmers, developers,

    machine learning and AI specialists. So this is how we classify the terms business intelligence tools that are descriptive and diagnostic and nature they’re less technical. Really good example of this would be something like IBM Watson Analytics or Tablo software that lets you just go in and and very quickly just organize your data and go Okay, what am I looking at what happened in here on the predictive and prescriptive side, this is where you see sort of like some of the things like big Watson, being able to just kind of come up with an answer is for you, or modeling software modeling tools, nine alter x companies like that, that allow you to assemble drag and drop workflows with your data to try and make the day to do stuff that visualization tool by itself would not do

    on

    the more technical side, data analytics, descriptive and diagnostics, hardcore statistics, software, SAS, SPSS would be a good examples of these are. And then in the data science realm, that’s where you, that’s where you see schools like our like Python, TensorFlow Charisse, all those the data science, machine learning and AI tools. So when we’re trying to figure out

    organizationally, what capabilities we have and what capabilities we need, this is a way to, to explore these four areas.

    Now, it’s really important, I think it’s worth mentioning that

    with these with

    this diagram, it

    a lot of times a two by two matrix, these people say, like I, I just need to go from here or here, all the way up into the upper right hand corner, or that depending on which consulting firm you’re talking just the upper left hand corner,

    that’s not the case,

    with this sort of data

    landscape,

    you need all four,

    you need the ability to understand the past,

    descriptive and diagnostic. And you need the ability to predict the future and to

    to prescribe based on what your your data says, You also need the ability to have these capabilities available to business users, people who just

    want to get their jobs done,

    and to the hardcore, technical statistical math folks who need the tools to build

    these models.

    Now, what tends to happen organizationally,

    is that the sore top row here of the hardcore stuff is the back end or the fuel for what eventually becomes the business users. So the ability to take those those key findings at a tactical level, and distill them down into the the business level that said, the business level then sort of feeds back and informs

    the technical stuff to help refine models, or to construct a new software or new templates, or whatever the case may be, in order to, to tune the findings to be more effective. So that’s this sort of spectrum of these four terms. Data Analytics, data science, business intelligence, business analytics. And again, it’s super confusing

    because of marketing. I mean,

    you would think that data analytics and,

    and business analytics would be in the same category of like, descriptive diagnostic, but they’re actually different in the sense that what, you know, data analytics looks tends to look back at words at past data and business analytics, at least in a lot of the way organizations describe it

    is very predictive and forward looking.

    Again, this is all marketing and, and people trying to mistake a thought leadership position by

    being contrary

    whatever you call these in your organization, and you may end up developing your own lexicon, you just want to be able to do all four things you want people with technical looking back abilities to will, technical looking forward abilities, business users, giving them the ability to look backwards easily, and the ability to look forwards easily. That’s what you want within your organization. If you can do that, you create those capabilities, then whatever you call, it doesn’t matter. You just need to have all four. Like I said, it’s not a contest, you’re not trying to go from here, you know, trying to all get into the magic corner, you need to have a good balance of all four capabilities

    to really make the most of it. So great question. You’re you’ve

    if you google this, you’re going to get 400 different answers from like 200 people.

    And even if you were to ask

    a person on any any given day, what their answer is, the answer may change. So just know that it’s going to be confusing. Focus on the capabilities as opposed to the brand labels that go on them. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel into the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media and AI

    You Ask, I Answer_ Social Media and AI

    Kevan asks, “How will AI change the job of a social media manager in the next 2-5 years?”

    Recall that the primary benefits of AI are acceleration, accuracy, and alleviation.

    • Acceleration of work, to produce more work, faster
    • Accuracy of work, to produce better quality work
    • Alleviation of work, to reduce repetitive tasks for humans

    Consider the aspects of social media management through those lenses. How much work in social media management is repetitive?

    • Sourcing and curating content
    • Publishing
    • Advertising
    • Managing influencers
    • Reducing/mitigating risk in crises

    So many “playbooks” exist in social media management precisely because it’s a very repetitive discipline. I often say, if you do it with a template today, a machine does it without you tomorrow. If there’s a playbook for it in social media today, a machine can be trained to do it tomorrow.

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    In today’s you ask I answer, Kevin asks, how

    will AI change social media management in the next two to five years,

    I’m going to caveat this right up front,

    we have no way of knowing exactly what’s going to happen in the next two to five years in AI, we had no idea in 2015, that shortly thereafter, in less than 18 months, deep mind would be able to solve the computing the computing needs around the game go, you know, something it was projected to be 30 years away was, in fact, 18 months away. So starting off of that camera got, let’s remember what the three purposes of AI or the three applications of AI the three A’s, it is acceleration, it is accuracy, it is alleviation. So acceleration to get more work done or to do work faster AI is really good at that accuracy is really good at producing better quality work, especially at massive computational tasks. And alleviation AI is really good at learning repetitive tasks, the more repetitive the faster the machine can learn. And the end, the sooner we can offload that repetitive process to a machine. And these are not new, right, this has been the case for software for

    years and years and years, it is now only that

    AI is able to do this with some training on its own, as opposed to us having to explicitly spell out that now consider what social media management is, right? How much of social media management is repetitive, the sourcing and curation of content

    to follow the 8020 rule, very

    repetitive process, and very little human judgment is needed in order to find high quality content to share. That is something that can be automated today,

    the managing of influencers, the identification of it influences all can be done using statistics and analytics, the running of advertising, again, something can be done using statistics and analytics AI is already doing a tremendous amount of advertising management, because it’s called programmatic where the machines Just do it. For us. Even things like crisis management, and customer service and AI are things that frankly, machines could do if you go to a fast food restaurants, messages on social channels of the social channel of your choice. And look at the replies this be a long stream of we’re signing a bad experience, message us for and, and we’ll make it right over and over again, with almost no variations, this long litany of, hey, we’re going to make this right machine could do that. You don’t even need aim for that. Because, right, a very simple bot that just respond immediately to somebody when they complain. So acceleration, accuracy alleviation.

    Think about this.

    I often say in the keynote, I believe, if you do the template today, a machine can do it without you tomorrow, how much of social media fits inside an actual playbook? Right? Here’s your social media playbook. Your company may even have one, it may even be called a social media playbook.

    That’s a template that is a massive template, how

    much of your social media management fits inside the playbook?

    That’s what a I will do.

    If it’s in the playbook today,

    the machines will do it tomorrow. So the question I think Kevin and many others have is okay, so what will I be doing if the machines doing everything in the playbook? Well, it’s all the stuff that’s not in the playbook. That’s that’s what the humans will be doing. So that is the grand strategy and the integration of social media strategy to the overall business. Because remember, a lot of cases, social media strategy is still very simplistic because of organizational silos. If social media is not integrated into marketing, and marketing is not integrated and sales sales is an integrated into service, then you end up with corporate social media goals, like more followers,

    well, that’s easy, you don’t need a human for that,

    in fact, if it’s a simple number that is ideal for a machine to take over. So it

    integrating grand strategy, how do you integrate

    a social program into the overall

    ecosystem of the company, that is something that humans will still do

    the

    nuances of human behavior. And designing campaigns is something that absolutely, humans will still do in the next two to five years. Because machines can’t learn that the nuances of

    empathy and judgment and reason

    and cultural cultural significance machines are are are not good at that today. And they probably will not get good at that in the next two to five years,

    they eventually will,

    they eventually will figure out how to manage those nuances as the training data sets get bigger and bigger. But for now, so not likely to happen

    in the next two to five years.

    And the overall connecting

    of the pieces and the designing of the architecture itself is something that machines will not be able to do in the next two to five years. And what am I mean by that is, how is the coordination of all these pieces? If you are a company looking at AI? Seriously, you are looking at it through a couple different lenses, what do we buy off the shelf, and what do we build internally, in a lot of cases, companies are going to build

    the

    the architecture, the strategy and the pieces internally and then get the off the shelf components, they need to fill in the blanks for the things that they can’t do. So

    you know, your average midsize business and even some of your larger enterprises are not going to spin up a 100 million node compute cluster, right, you’re going to go to a company like IBM

    for that, because

    they can afford to do that. And that’s not your core competency.

    But you will absolutely leverage the power of that supercomputer cluster in

    your in your overall

    marketing technology infrastructure. Likewise, if you look at a product like Watson studio, Watson studio is a drag and drop modeling interface to help you build AI models, it is much much simpler than almost everything that’s come before and makes it more accessible and faster for data scientists and computer scientists, and eventually business users to be able to do on their own. That’s something that a company will do internally, they will art create the architecture, decide what they want the architecture to do, and then

    let different vendors integrate into that. So the social media managers role will be to help the systems architects figure out okay, here’s our social media data sources. Here’s our overall corporate architecture of how we want to handle that data. And then here’s how the systems we’re going to plug it into that will do all the processing that will build the models that will train and then eventually connect to the social media systems and output a result. So that’s kind of where the social media managers role will be, it will be in being sort of the human glue among the different pieces to make a scalable, better quality social media program.

    Bear in mind that

    AI works best in situations where there’s not a great human experience. So if you’re a current human social media experience is terrible AI is going to be able to replicate it really easily. If your

    social media

    experience that you give to customers into your audience is best in class and is so interactive, and you have true real in depth conversations with people every single day,

    that’s going to be much, much harder to automate, then someone

    who just posts five times a day with with with links, never responds to anybody ignores customer complaints that that can be automated out of existence today. So think about the quality of service, you give us those sort of the last metric of what a social media manager will or won’t do in two to five years with the help of a if the experience you give today is terrible. Today, you can be automated out of existence, if the experience you give is so human and so best in class and so interactive, it’s going to be much, much harder to replicate that some stuff will be but the majority will not. So

    great question, Kevin. Very

    interesting question. These days as people start thinking, what

    will I be doing as humans we have to double down on what makes us human and commit to the best in class customer experience. Otherwise, a machine will be able to do the work for us and not and we won’t be needed anymore.

    So as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and into the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take

    care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Getting Started with Predictive and AI

    You Ask, I Answer_ Starting with Predictive and AI

    Kevin asks, “How can a marketing team with zero AI / predictive resources get started, today? Where should they begin?”

    We follow the STEM business lifecycle: strategy, tactics, execution, measurement.

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    Strategy: what problem are we trying to solve? Is AI and predictive modeling the right solution to solve that problem? (AAR)

    Tactics: what choices will we make? This is based on budget and resources.

    • Budget but no time? Hire either an agency or FTEs.
    • Time but no budget? Train yourselves.
    • Neither budget nor time? Pass on it for now and focus on generating revenue so that you have budget and time later.

    Execution: based on build or buy, do the thing.

    Measure: did you solve your problem?

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    In today’s you ask I answer. Kevin asks, How can a marketing team with zero AI machine learning predictive resources Get started today? Where should they begin? Well, we begin by following the stem business lifecycle strategy. Stem stands for strategy, tactics, execution measurement strategy, what problem are we trying to solve? There are a lot of business problems where AI and predictive modeling and machine learning, probably not the right solution.

    A problem is ripe for solving with AI, and predictive and machine learning. And all these advanced technologies. If it follows the AAR format? Do you need more acceleration mean you need to go faster? Do you need more accuracy? When your existing processes? are not generating accurate enough results? Or is the problem highly repetitious? If it’s one of those three, it’s a great candidate for AI and machine learning. If it’s two of those three, it’s a really great candidate. If it’s all three, you probably should have done some automation of it already. So

    that’s the first part of the strategy is that is that a problem for which this is the the correct solution? Second, on tactics, what choices are we going to make? Now, this is not necessarily choices about specific technologies. So this is choices about from a business perspective, could you do you have the ability to solve the problem with AI and machine learning? And that comes down to two fundamental factors? Well, really three, but budget and time are the two fundamental factors. If you have budget and you have no time

    or you have more budget than time, I should say,

    hire, hire an agency, hire full time employees, hire consultants, hire whatever you need to do to build in that capability quickly, and, and start the execution of the problem solving. If you have time, but no budget, Train yourself, right, spend some time training, there is a great crash course in machine learning from Google requires knowledge of Python. So if you have not learned how to code in Python, I strongly recommend the book learn Python the hard way, it’s hilarious, it’s a really good read. And then

    you go on to the machine learning Crash Course,

    that combined will take you somewhere between six and 12 months. But if you have time and no money,

    use that time wisely, build that capability in figure you’re going to spend an hour a day for the next 12 months building up that capability. But once you do you that capability can’t be taken away. It’s not once you have the knowledge and the skills even if your your, you know, your development budget gets taken away, your knowledge doesn’t go away. So my personal preference is even when there is budget to acquire knowledge. Because, again, knowledge is something that only decays from lack of use. But it’s not like someone can just slash a budget and suddenly your capability goes away. If you have neither budget nor time

    pass on AI and machine learning. For now, just give it a miss.

    And the reason you should do that is that you need to focus on generating revenue so that you have budget and time later, right. Rip revenue fixes many walls. So that’s sort of the tactical choice you have to make, what do you have more of and what are you willing to commit. And the other thing I would add is that if you if you don’t have

    if you don’t have the right people in place, again, you’re going to need to get time or money to fix that.

    Then the third stage is, of course execution based on your choice of build or buy, do one of the above and then you measure did we solve the problem do we build a capability that solves the business problem at hand,

    one of the greatest dangerous is that people will

    jump into action technology and just start using it without that strategy. Without that clear business problem to solve. Now,

    if you are an individual practitioner, and you are learning

    AI, and machine learning, and you are tinkering around, that’s a totally fine strategy, tinkering, experimenting, playing with stuff, breaking things completely appropriate for an individual practitioner for a business

    not as

    not as good

    unless you’re

    it is contained within the r&d function within your business. Again, r&d is professional tinkering,

    you don’t want to do that production once you have something ready to go you roll it out and and it is a proven

    repeatable scalable process

    but

    you know throwing out AI solutions just for the sake of using AI and not because it it’s the best choice to solve a business problem is not the way to go at a business level

    production again rd separate story so

    that’s how you get started

    today. That’s where you begin, either build or buy and there’s always I in my opinion, and this is just one practitioners opinion, you should always have a component of build, even when you buy if you work with a vendor who is completely unwilling to share any knowledge or experience or source code or anything, then you’ve got a lousy vendor bears, every vendor is going to have their own secret sauce, but at the very least, they should be able to tell you what they’re doing.

    Maybe like, you don’t need the exact recipe and down to the individual measurements. But someone’s You better tell you whether you’re getting a pizza or a souffle or a cupcake, right? Very different.

    They’re very different outcomes, and they’re not even willing to tell you he adds a pizza

    Ben, then they’re not a great mentor.

    So good question. Kevin.

    Like I said, those two courses, learn Python, the hard way is a great one that will give you the knowledge of Python itself. And then

    the machine learning Crash Course from Google. I’ll put a link to both courses

    in in the notes here.

    Bear in mind that

    Python

    is a great choice as a general purpose language. If you’ve never coded before, if you have coding experience in the past, particularly in monolithic languages like c++ and Java, you may be more comfortable with the statistical programming language are I personally am much more comfortable with our than I am with Python because I have a lot more gray hair and I’ve done a lot more that older style of coding Python is much more suited for people who have never voted before and

    I don’t want to get to speak quickly are is

    not as friendly. So thanks for watching. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and we’ll talk to you soon. Take care

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What Is Data-Driven?

    You Ask, I Answer_ What Is Data-Driven_

    Judi asks,

    “In a recent NY Times article on analytics in media, they make a distinction between being data informed as opposed to data driven, prizing human judgement over data and not letting data like pageviews dictate content strategy. What are your thoughts?”

    Data-informed and data-driven to me are largely semantics; both indicate we are making decisions using data. I use the example of the GPS for what it means to be data-driven. Most of the time, we don’t ask our GPS to tell us our destination, just how to get there. A select few times, we’ll use an app to suggest destinations, but human judgement still matters most.

    The article itself is an excellent read.

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    In today’s you ask, I answered Judy asks, in a recent New York Times article on analytics and media, they make a distinction between data informed, as opposed to data driven pricing, human judgment and editorial over data, and not letting each of us dictate content strategy. What are your thoughts? Well,

    that’s a good question. Um,

    data informed and data driven to me are largely semantics. And the reason for that is that both of these indicate we are making decisions using data, I use the example of a GPS, right for what it means to be data driven. When you open your smartphone, or for those older versions that are physical separate devices, you punch in your destination, and the software talks to the system. And the system figures out how to get you from where you are to go to where your destination is the best radio show, Mr. Fastest stories, you know, around traffic, things like that. Nobody, almost nobody

    just

    asks the GPS for a destination and randomly and how to get that right. I mean, you might do it for fun with like playing on Google Maps, like, hey, what is driving directions to get to,

    you know, from Topeka to Tokyo, which you can’t do that anymore. But the point being,

    we don’t ask the GPS for our destination, we asked the GPS for our journey, how do we get there in in the most optimal way. Same thing is true about being data driven, or data informed, we need to know the best way to get to our destination. But we are not asking our systems to tell us where to go. And that’s an important part, because that is the distinction in many ways between

    strategy and tactics and execution,

    right. Strategy is why we even in the car tactics are, you know, how are we going, you know, what, what choices are we going to make to get there and execute our other pieces of data. We used to make a safe and expedient journey. At no point in your strategy setting for marketing or for business in general, should you be

    there going, Hey, wait a minute, why are we going?

    That’s something that should not happen? So strategy is, why are we going, and that involves the setting of the destination? Is it possible that we will have reached a day where artificial intelligence and machine learning and deep learning

    can suggest destinations? Absolutely, in some ways, we already do that. So

    again, going back to driving,

    there are plenty of times, particularly if you are a business traveler, where you get to a destination, and then you get to your hotel, and you’re like, I want to find someplace to eat. So you open up an app, and you ask the app know what places to eat. Are there that are nearby though the cuisine, they’re like in a price range. I like that are open right now.

    And in this case, we’re using data to eat to to solve the problem of Where should we go? Or where should we get our food for, we still have the human judgment part of why are we doing this, why are we doing this, because we’re hungry, we want something to eat. And then we use the machine technology to help us identify where

    how we want to solve that problem. And then again, you would then use the GPS to figure out how to get there in order to get something to eat.

    Likewise,

    many of the biggest business problems that we solve with marketing, like we need more revenue, we need to meet our help the team needed sales numbers, we need to retain customers, our problems that we still have to decide, we still have to decide that how metaphorically hungry, the organization is for new leads versus retaining customers, right, they’re going to have so much time and money unless you’re, I don’t know, like a bank.

    And even though there’s resource constraints. So which of these pressing problems. Do we have to solve with human judgment and with informed by the biggest business and then we can use

    machine technology to suggest all the different options that are available. And then we pick the options that make the most sense to us.

    So we’re not at a point. And we will not be at a point for quite a while, where we just turn everything over to a machine. And a lot of people believe that that’s what data driven means. It’s even in this new york times article where they’re, they’re saying, We don’t let page us dictate our coverage. Our approach, you shouldn’t let page views dictate anything paid user, not a great indicator of anything other than ad sales.

    But

    instead, we need to have our machines helping us make our decisions better, and making our decisions faster.

    How long would it take you, if you’re, if you’re under the age of,, this reference will make no sense to you, how long did it used to take you in business travel, to find a place to eat while you dig out the the yellow pages in, you know, buried in the, in the restaurant, dress in the hotel, room, dresser, and, and sift through all the different categories, all the different cuisines and stuff like that,

    that would take a really long time and I just open up the app, find what’s open, you don’t make any phone calls to see if some places open and if they deliver to your hotel, you just

    do that and and you get the answer. So the machines. Help us make better decisions because we know what’s open and make faster decisions, because you want to call every single restaurant in the area. Likewise, on the business side. And in the marketing side.

    If we are building great machine learning models to truly be data driven, we don’t have to guess and try out a B tests every single possible marketing channel, we use things like attribution modeling, we use things like

    subset modeling to figure out which combination the predictive analytics driver analysis to figure out what combination of things

    is going to be most efficacious,

    but we still need that human judgment to go,

    I know something’s not right in that data.

    I know something’s a little off, or I know we had an analytics problem here. So we need to, you know, select not you incorporate some of the data that we know is bad. So to sum up, data informed and data driven our semantic differences like a GPS, it is important that we, the humans

    set the strategy

    why we’re doing something set the destination

    or use machine learning and and data to

    figure out which destination is optimal for our

    limited resources. And then use data

    use analytics use insights, which is

    the higher form of analytics

    to get us to that destination in the most efficient and effective way possible. Great question, Judy complex question. And there’s a lot to unpack in this.

    I do think that a lot of people do get mixed up as to what all these different terms means to be clear in your own lexicon and what you mean by data driven what your own semantic differences are,

    as well as what you define strategy tactics, execution measurement as because that will help you disambiguate and and not get confused when you

    are trying to explain your strategy, your tactics and your execution to your stakeholders. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and to the newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon. Take care.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: What is Data Analytics?

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    Anika asks,

    “Data analytics is such an awkward phrase. What is data analytics, and how is it different than data science?”

    Data analytics is exactly what it sounds like – analytics you run on your data, any kind of data at all. We run data analytics on customer data, on machine data, on search data, on manufacturing data, on census data – you name it, we apply analytics to it. Remember that analytics means to unlock, to loosen up, to free (from the ancient Greek analein), so data analytics is to unlock data.

    It’s important to distinguish among data analytics, data science, and data engineering:

    • Data analytics is the intersection of people and platforms/software. Data analytics answers the question, “what?”.
    • Business intelligence is the intersection of people and process, the management of data. Business intelligence answers the question, “why?”.
    • Data engineering is the intersection of process and platform, how we manage and scale our data-driven business. Data engineering answers the question, “how?”.
    • Data science is the intersection of engineering, analytics, and intelligence.

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    In today’s you ask, I answer Anika asks data analytics is such an awkward phrase. What is data analytics? And how is it different than data science?

    Great question.

    There’s a lot of confusion about all these different terms, particularly since a lot of vendors in our space like to mix and match these terms together, and

    they’re not necessarily easy substitute. So let’s dig into this data analytics is exactly what it sounds like. It is the analytics we run on data. And so this can be any kind of data at all. We can run it on customer data, machine data on IoT data, healthcare data, search data, census data, manufacturing data, so on and so forth. Whatever the data is, we run analytics on it. We apply analytics to it to understand what happened. That’s the key of analytics whenever we say the word analytics we are using.

    We applied to mean that we’re going to unlock to loosen up. The free

    analytics comes from the Greek word on a line, which means to loosen up to unlock. So data analytics is the process of unlocking data.

    Now, there are also other functions of things we do with data, there are the insights we gather from data, the intelligence, the insights, sort of, why is stuff happening. And then there’s the management of the data itself, which is, you know, think about it in an engineering and, you know, servers, big data, all that stuff.

    If we overlay. And in fact, let’s put up a fun diagram here, if we overlay

    data analytics is sort of the what the business intelligence, where we have the management of our data and the people who need of data that’s sort of the y and then the management or data and the technologies and tools themselves. That’s sort of an engineering function when you put all those.

    Together intelligence analytics and engineering, you end up with data science, which is sort of the blanket umbrella term of the science of data science of making data useful of getting good stuff out of our data. That’s

    that would be my interpretation of how these different disciplines

    interact.

    When we think about the management of data purely, that is very much an IT and an IT function. We think about the data technologies that’s very much a software

    function. So it and software different things management of technology versus the coding and the creation of technology, that coding and and technology that’s there’s a lot of, that’s where your machine learning and AI sit, and then the people function as the business function, domain expertise. It doesn’t necessarily have to be human beings, but it is that sort of the business the why of the stuff you think about people process technology.

    People is why are we even doing the thing? All those people who need the thing? What is the thing,

    which is

    platforms? And then how, how do we manage the thing? And that’s process, right? process is very much all about how. And so when you intersect of these things together, that intersection of the why, and the, what the people the platform is your data analytics, like, why are we doing this thing? Look, what are we going to do the thing, let’s, let’s get some analytics on that. Let’s understand what happened. When you look at the intersection of people in process, though, with the why and how that’s where you get the intelligence because you need those insights to inform. But what so we we know from analytics, what happened now we use intelligence and insights to figure out why those things happened. And then how do we automate and and scale and build for growth that’s an engineering function that’s the intersection of the what and the how we want to boost up our ability to grow to scale to automate to

    standardize and to accelerate our business. That’s one of the reasons why machine learning and AI very much fit in that intersection between platform and process and engineering. Because it’s very much an engineering function to help us grow faster.

    Some of the things you’ll hear, like exploratory data analysis, or confirmatory data analysis, that all fits in data analytics. And that is very much, you know, people trying to figure out what’s in their data

    when you put it all together, why, what and how that becomes data science. And that becomes the, the,

    the overlap that

    you can specialize in. But you can see how being a data scientist would require you to have experience and understanding the intelligence of the business, the the analytics of the business, and even some of the engineering of the business. That’s also why data scientists are in such short supply because you have not one area of expertise, but you have three domains of expertise that you need to be fluent in. You may specialize in analytics, or you may specialize in engineering.

    You may specialize in AI, or you may specialize in visualization. But

    you need to have competence and all three in order to fully bring that data science alive. So one of the reasons why data science is so expensive, so hard to build as a capability is because you need people who can do all three things. So very good question, Nautica. Very challenging question. And I will caveat all this by saying that if you were to ask by data scientists and analysts and business intelligence professionals and engineers this same question you’re going to get very, very different answers. So

    understand that this is my perspective as someone who is

    okay at all domains

    and

    that it is just one person’s perspective. But this is how I would organize my thinking around this and this is how to organize teams of people around it, or.

    How to Choose vendors. If you have a vendor that saying, Oh, well, you do all this will really how many data scientists do you employ? Who can bring to life? The engineering, the analytics and the intelligence aspects? If the answer is zero, then you been, you are not a data science tool. You’re in a lobby, they assign software company.

    What we’ve seen happen a lie in the space is vendors who specialized in one of those areas like bi or analytics or engineering, trying to pivot and hop on the data science train because it can get bigger budgets or it’s it’s more attractive to buyers. But lacking the underpinnings to actually be a data science tool, as opposed to being an analytics tool or an intelligence tool or an engineering tool.

    It’s okay to be in just one of those things. If you’re really good at it, you want to be best in class and in that thing, if you’re a best in class analytics tool, awesome. Be that and people will buy it. But if you’re if you as a business user, trying to figure Okay, we have all

    These software packages,

    try classifying them into the analytics intelligence and engineering categories, just, you know, no back of a napkin or whatever.

    And that might indicate where you have technological gaps. You might indicate we have process gaps, and it might indicate where you have knowledge and skills gaps on your staff and the agencies, you work with, and things like that. So you use this framework to help categorize your relative strengths and weaknesses in data science in data analytics and business intelligence and in data engineering.

    This framework should help you

    have a little more clarity about what you’ve actually got under the hood. Again, great question, Nautica. Thanks for asking it. As always, please subscribe to the newsletter and it to the YouTube channel, which is where all the historical videos for all this stuff is kept. So if you want to go back and look at old episodes, it’s easy to find them on YouTube. I know a lot of folks, watch us on LinkedIn. Thank you, but the historical stuffs on you.

    YouTube easier to find them. And we’ll talk to you next time. Thanks for watching.

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