The last few years have seen an explosion of machine learning and AI tools, many of them free and open source.
But merely having access to these tools isn't enough to design, build and test effective intelligent systems.
We need to start with a focus on the business problem we want to solve, and an understanding of the data we'll be working with.
And we need a structured process for designing, building, testing and developing our intelligent system.
A haphazard approach, or simply using a selected tool or method, risks failure to develop an effective intelligent system, or one that doesn't perform as well as it could.
