Repeatability: The Key to Scaling Data Science -- Upside

Like most organizations, you want to embed analytics insights in your operational processes and promote a culture of analytical decision making. You want to use machine learning, deep learning, and related technologies to automate decision making when and where it makes sense. These goals might seem both realistic and attainable. After all, software and cloud vendors are pitching you easy-to-use, quasi-automated, self-service tools and consultants promise to help you bridge the gap between the skills you have and the skills they say you'll need. Far from it, says Mark Madsen, a research analyst with information management consultancy Third Nature.