Read more about author Laura Madsen. Welcome to the Dear Laura blog series! As I’ve been working to challenge the status quo on Data Governance – I get a lot of questions about how it will “really” work. I’ll be sharing these questions and answers via this DATAVERSITY® series. In 2019, I wrote the book “Disrupting Data Governance” because I firmly believe that poor Data Governance programs are getting in the…

Read more about author Noam Brezis. As data science and AI technologies become more integrated into everyday business processes, more and more companies are seeing their tremendous benefits. But there are challenges with successfully deploying AI in a manner that drives measurable business outcomes. I wanted to share with you some of the best ways to address those challenges and help your data science program succeed.  For more than a…

Read more about author Saara Hyvönen. The answer is anybody’s guess, I argue in my last article about AI ethics. But it is our responsibility to try to shape the future we want.  Some AI experts are convinced the world is hurtling towards the Singularity, the point at which the trusted division between man and machine is erased as computers become cleverer than – and come to dominate – us. The prospect of…

Read more about author Aman Gupta. Creating a collaborative, data-driven culture is one of the most important goals of many modern organizations. However, access to the data and data processing tools remains restricted to the selected few technical users or upper management echelons. Data-driven culture cannot exist without the democratization of the data. Data democratization certainly does not mean unrestricted access to all the organizational data. The aim of data democratization is…