The Data Literacy Revolution - Dr. Eugene Dubossarsky

The popularity and ubiquity of data science, data analytics, AI and the trend towards digital transformation have led to massive, repeated failures in many businesses. Despite billions spent, hundreds of Ph.D.s hired, and much boasting in conference presentations, many enterprises are still struggling to leverage the value of these new technologies. The missing ingredient is the literacy of the rest of the organisation, particularly senior management.

This presentation will describe this new literacy: “data literacy”, the analogy with computer literacy, and reasons why this skillet will soon be as essential to all professionals as data literacy is today. It will address issues of automation, the advent of decision making as the key managerial activity and the resulting democratisation of AI and analytics, however still maintaining a class of data science and analytics experts. The presentation will address issues of mindset, as well as skillset, and the ways in which management engagement with data analytics must change to leverage its value.

Speaker Profile

Eugene Dubossarsky has been a commercial data scientist, financial trader, software developer and professional community leader for over 20 years. He is the principal founder of The Australia New Zealand Data Analytics Network, a community of over 15600 members with regular meetups across the region. His data science training business Presciient has been in operation for over 9 years. He is also the Chief Data Scientist and a Managing Partner of AlphaZetta, a global data analytics training and consulting business spanning 44 countries. He is also a Founding Partner of Advantage Data, a data science technology company, Aurum Data, which leverages AI to value data sets, and risk.earth, innovative cyclone catastrophe risk modelling company.