By popular demand I’m sitting down with Oscar Wood, CEO of NNData, to talk about many different things, including hidden data workforces, democratizing AI across a business, how the world of ETL is changing… we also get into leadership philosophy, when it's ok to be wrong, and second chances. Buckle up. This is a good one!
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:
Oscar walks me through his thought process on ideating NNCompass, where he saw the gaps, and who specifically we’re trying to enable
We've talked before about this assumption that there’s a “hidden data workforce”, a group of people in any given organization, whether they’re business analysts, marketing professionals, low-level all the way to c-suite… technology for this group of people is quickly being democratized… so we talk here about the hidden data workforce, and what they need to validate their mental models.
I ask Oscar, is the end goal to democratize AI and those insights across an organization…? “Machine Learning for the Masses”? Or maybe automating some of the difficult data management workflow tasks associated with assembling data for AI and ML?
We dive deeper into what it takes to assemble data for AI and ML, who’s job is that, what needs to happen, how do we use software to make it a team effort? Project controllers, business analysts, data scientists, do all these people need to work together?
There’s been some complacency in the world of data management and ETL in the last few years, everything really being tied to a database offering - - almost always very expensive… I ask him how NNData is trying to disrupt that model by looking at the “data” landscape from a different angle?
