by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights, Jobs and Salaries
Data is a strategic asset that has been left un-leveraged by many federal agencies. A study conducted by Jane Wiseman of Harvard has identified a crying need for more Chief Data Officers in federal government. Wiseman’s analysis found that among the ten largest...
by CDO Review Staff | Oct 1, 2018 | Issues & Insights
Firms should use AI techniques to generate new revenue rather than cut costs. This was one of several findings of MIT’s Sloan Management Review’ 2018 Global Executive Study on AI. The MIT Sloan study points out that companies that are early AI adopters will gain a big...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 18, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
Big data has the answers. Lots of good ones, and lots of bad ones, too. Sometimes separating the wheat from the chaff requires disciplines from outside the realm of data science. Bill Luker writes in the Predictive Analytics Times: Big data is and has been less easy...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 17, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
A movement called Open Science has been stirring debate in the scientific community about whether raw scientific data should be made available to everyone who wants to use it. Better data makes for better science. But the issue isn’t so simple. Data has monetary...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
ING Chief Data Officer Christopher Bannocks believes that “every data problem is a people problem in disguise.” He adds that companies that focus only on technology and ignore people are making a very big mistake. Peter James Thomas interviewed Bannocks on...
by CDO Review Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights, People
Networking site LinkedIn will allow academics to access its data for their studies but assures users that proper privacy protections will remain in place. The move is an expansion of previous collaborative effort that produced “path-breaking findings,” the...
