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Blog Posts by Bill Franks

With the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) today, almost everyone in the analytics and data science space has been asked about AI by their business partners. Unfortunately, during these conversations…
While open source software has been around for decades, its adoption level and breadth of focus have exploded in recent years. Most companies now make regular use of open…
In a previous blog, I discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) today merely has specific intelligence as opposed to generalized intelligence. This means that an AI process can appear quite…
It goes without saying that the analytics and data science space is undergoing change at an unprecedented pace. At the same time, many organizations have a lot of people…
Everyone who has lived within the world of analytics has seen cases where different parts of a business have made use of slightly differing definitions of core business metrics.…
Traditionally, large organizations have both a research organization and a customer analytics organization that are distinct from each other and often in entirely different chains of command. I have…
Profit and Loss (P&L) statements permeate businesses due to the need to track how a business is performing at overall, business unit, and even project-by-project levels. This blog raises…
Recently, a lot of press was given to Google’s Duplex Artificial Intelligence (AI) bot. Watch a video of the demonstration here. The Duplex bot calls businesses, such as a…
As a person who has been involved with analytics for a long time, I have historically considered analytics to be a huge differentiator while data was more of a…