“I for one welcome our new computer overlords” was the response of Ken Jennings in 2011 as he ceded his Jeopardy crown to IBM’s Watson, a Data Science-driven machine. Given the sophistication of Jeopardy’s prompts, both phrasing and content, it seemed that humans were on the verge of being automated away. And yet, almost a decade later, there is not one robo-CEO, or even a robotic Head of regional marketing. In fact, the list of successful corporate Data Science programs is short; there are only a few categories of operational tasks that have benefitted. Worse, though most companies are reluctant to admit it, most corporate Data Science projects fail entirely.
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