Data Science and Digital Systems: The 3Ds of Machine Learning Systems Design

There is a lot of talk about the fourth industrial revolution centered around AI. If we are at the start of the fourth industrial we also have the unusual honour of being the first to name our revolution before it's occurred. The technology that has driven the revolution in AI is machine learning. And when it comes to capitalising on the new generation of deployed machine learning solutions there are practical difficulties we must address. In 1987 the economist Robert Solow quipped "You can see the computer age everywehere but in the productivity statistics".