Jennifer Redmon
Chief Data Evangelist
Data & Analytics
Articles
Is Data Science a Pre-Requisite for AI? The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success
Note: this is Part 2 of 2 introducing The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success. To Read part 1, “Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success”, click here. The prequel to this post established mindset and culture, in the form of Data Literacy and…
Fostering a Data-Driven Culture: The Data Science & AI Hierarchy of Success
In today’s climate of rapid innovation, it’s easy to find examples of companies leveraging data, analytics, and automation to increase revenue, cut costs, improve customer experience, develop new offerings, and achieve other goals. However, very little is written on how these companies operate diffe…
Congratulations 2019 Data Science Award Winners!
Congratulations to Cisco’s inaugural Data Science Award Winners and Finalists! With over 110 inspiring submissions in 5 categories from teams representing 400+ Cisco employees, narrowing the field down to the best of the best data science powered solutions was an arduous task. And now… the res…
Data Science & AI for Good Launch
Data-driven insights fuel the most innovative companies of our time. And executives know it. According to Cisco’s 2018 CDO Thought Leadership Brief, “an overwhelming 97.2% of executives report that their companies are investing in building or launching big data and AI initiatives.” However, the road…
Are Successful Data Scientists Hired or Trained?
This article was originally posted on OpenDataScience.com. The data science valley of despair is real. Time after time, leaders who’re well-versed in case studies and industry research extolling the returns of data-driven insights seek to innovate their business—and land in a hole of frustration and…
DeepNude- the AI that “Undresses” Women- is Back. What Now?
Update July 9, 7:55 p.m EST: GitHub removed the DeepNude source code from its website. Read more here. After 4 days on the market, the creator(s) of DeepNude, the AI that “undressed” women, retired the app following a glut of backlash from individuals including leaders of the AI community: Althoug…
Data Evangelism: Oxymoron, Fluff, or Business Driver?
At first pass, data evangelism may sound more like an oxymoron than a corporate function. Most of us (and our dictionaries) associate evangelism with faith, while data & analytics is core to the scientific method. Evangelism is predominantly qualitative while data & analytics is the definiti…