Why companies should democratize A.I. – Fortune

This is the web version of Eye on A.I., Fortune's weekly newsletter covering artificial intelligence and business. To get it delivered weekly to your in-box, sign up here. Everyone can become a data scientist. That's the somewhat radical view of Alan Jacobson, the chief data and analytic officer at Alteryx, a company that sells data analytics software to many of the Fortune 500. Jacobson says that while he frequently hears executives complain about being unable to hire people with data science experience, let alone machine-learning skills, these executives are ignoring the amazing human resource already sitting inside their own organizations.