“To solve any business problem, you must first start with a business question. Some vendors speak too much about “magic.” In their eyes, you combine data, machine learning and cognitive artificial intelligence, and you get magic. That may be true someday in the future, but today, projects should start with a well-defined question, such as:

• Can I recommend products to my visitors?
• Can I predict who is going to leave me for competition among my current customer base?
• Can I predict next month?

When developers are brought into the fold to deploy models and improve applications that answer real business problems, enterprises see results from machine learning” Read more