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Escaping POC Purgatory: Evaluation-Driven Development for AI Systems

O'Reilly on Data

Weve seen this across dozens of companies, and the teams that break out of this trap all adopt some version of Evaluation-Driven Development (EDD), where testing, monitoring, and evaluation drive every decision from the start. Two big things: They bring the messiness of the real world into your system through unstructured data.

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Marsh McLennan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Marsh McLellan IT reorg lays foundation for gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly on Data

In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. There was a lot of uncertainty about stability, particularly at smaller companies: Would the company’s business model continue to be effective? Would your job still be there in a year? Executive Summary. Demographics.

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Decision Making with Uncertainty Requires Wideward Thinking

Andrew White

COVID-19 and the related economic fallout has pushed organizations to extreme cost optimization decision making with uncertainty. As a result, Data, Analytics and AI are in even greater demand. Demand from all these organizations lead to yet more data and analytics. With data comes quality issues. Everything Changes.

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The state of data quality in 2020

O'Reilly on Data

We suspected that data quality was a topic brimming with interest. The responses show a surfeit of concerns around data quality and some uncertainty about how best to address those concerns. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality. Data quality might get worse before it gets better.

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Why HR professionals struggle with big data

CIO Business Intelligence

Making decisions based on data To ensure that the best people end up in management positions and diverse teams are created, HR managers should rely on well-founded criteria, and big data and analytics provide these. Kastrati Nagarro The problem is that many companies still make little use of their data.