What I Learned From 25 Years of Machine Learning

The biggest achievement in my career was to automate most of the data cleaning / data massaging / outlier detection and exploratory analysis, allowing me to focus on tasks that truly justified my salary. I had to write of few re-usable scripts to take care of that, but it was well worth the effort. Be friend with the IT department. In one company, much of my job consisted in producing and blending various reports for decision makers. I got it all automated (which required direct access via Perl code to sensitive databases) and I even told my boss about it.