The Future of Analytics: Collaboration, Deep Learning, and Telling the Story 7wData

Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) Gentimis, Assistant Professor of Math and Analytics at Florida Polytechnic University sees the future of analytics as a team effort, where subject matter experts (SMEs) collaborate in teams with Data Scientists and each team member plays to his or her strengths. He also sees a reliance on Deep Learning for creation of relevant questions and answers about data. Dr. Gentimis' field of expertise is Algebraic Topology, with a special interest in Geometric Group Theory. In a recent DATAVERSITY interview, Dr. Gentimis discussed how analytics is changing and what the future might look like. "If you go back into the 80s, analytics were performed on small data sets where somebody would come up with a survey," says Dr. Gentimis.