In this episode we speak with Tony Laing who is the General Manager of Analytics & Data Services at Auto & General. We talk about:

  • what is the ‘nuts and bolts’ of analytics
  • what is the data supply chain required in organisations for the delivery of analytics/ML solutions
  • how to deliver quick wins and strategic projects concurrently
  • the journey to add significant value in an organisation through analytics
  • what questions to ask executives to kickstart their data science journey
  • why is there so much turnover in data science
  • why data preparation and model building is only 20% of the job
  • what type of model is the best to drive commercial outcomes
  • whether ML applied in specific domains is AI or not
  • the art of data preparation, increases in computing power and automation of data science
  • what is “the knife fight” of data science and what type of companies can benefit the most

Show notes: https://www.datafuturology.com/podcast/15

Tony is based in Brisbane, Australia

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