FEATURE : MACHINE LEARNING
Machine Learning secret sauce
With vendors often claiming to have some Machine Learning secret sauce in their wares that will revolutionise an enterprise ’ s business , CIOs are being urged to be careful when selecting the right Machine Learning systems and tools .
Alan Jacobson , Chief Data and Analytics Officer , Alteryx , said the three top considerations to selecting any Machine Learning system should always include usability , breadth of scope and an outcomes-based view .
Jacobson said much of the emphasis for Machine Learning has been on the technology , not the people and that ’ s where failed projects are rooted .
“ As technologies continue to converge , so do the consumers or producers of those capabilities . The current skills gap continues to be any issue for enterprises . There is a distinct lack of data scientists across the globe ,” he noted .
Second , according to Jacobson , enterprises have to ensure that the chosen solution can help clean and manipulate data from whichever sources are necessary and operate across the breadth of the tech stack in place . “ The end goal should be replacing any disconnected tools with hyper-specific functions in favour of one broad-use tool ,” he said . “ Finally , as
Rick Rider , VP , Applied Innovation , Infor
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