How the Economics of Data Science is Creating New Sources of Value - DataScienceCentral.com

There are several technology and business forces in-play that are going to derive and drive new sources of customer, product and operational value. As a set up for this blog on the Economic Value of Data Science, let's review some of those driving forces. "Due to its ability to substantially improve productivity and boost economic output, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to increase economic growth rates by a weighted average of 1.7% and profitability rates by 38% across a variety of industries by 2035. Source: NorthBridge Consultants "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: New Challenges & Opport…" Figure 1: Source: "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: New Challenges & Opportunities" Data Science (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning) holds the potential to exploit Big Data and IoT to create new sources of economic value (wealth). But what is the source of this economic value when the AI tools that are driving this economic growth (TensorFlow, Spark ML, Caffee2, Keras) are open source and equally available to all players?