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2019: The Year of AI and Machine Learning

By dotData

2018 will be remembered, in many ways, as the year that disruptive emerging technologies began to reshape business models and change the economics of organizations. According to Gartner, digital business reached a tipping point last year, with forty-nine percent of CIOs reporting that their enterprises have already changed their business models, or are in the process of doing so. When CIOs and IT leaders were asked which technologies they expect to be most disruptive, artificial intelligence (AI) was the top-mentioned technology, with data and analytics taking second place. Based on my work leading more than 100 data analysis projects across a variety of industries, the combination of these technologies is hardly surprising; it’s an accurate reflection of what my colleagues and I see in data science on a daily basis. Data science is now a major area of technology investment for organizations, driven by the impact it can have on…