Machine Learning Talent in Short Supply: Opportunity for Some, Crises for Others

Machine learning – a piece of the artificial intelligence constellation – holds a lot of promise for enterprises, enabling programs and algorithms to become ever more intelligent. However, there's one problem: even the best-educated humans need more learning before they can understand machine learning. Bob Hayes, a professional data scientist and keen observer of all things data, picked up on a survey by Kaggle that finds that even data scientists still have a grasp on machine learning. The survey "revealed that a limited number of data professionals possess competency in advanced machine learning skills," says Hayes. "About half of data professionals said they were competent in supervised machine learning (49%) and logistic regression (53%). Deep learning techniques were among the ML skills with the lowest competency rates."