Article includes shout outs to Doug Laney ('The 3 Vs of Big Data'), Cathy O'Neil "Weapons of #Math Destruction) & Tony's'Big on Data bro' Andrew J. Brust.

In this episode, we hear from Bruno Aziza, Group Vice President at AI and Data Analytics at Oracle. Aziza encourages his customers to think of the AI acronym not simply as artificial intelligence, but rather as an "applied and invisible" form of augmentation that allows organizations and individuals to get to their end goals faster. Data analysts spend about 80% of their time just preparing data before it can even be analyzed. By applying AI, that time can be cut to nearly nothing, errors can be reduced, and business analysts can reappropriate their time. This allows companies to analyze more efficiently and ask better questions to create a more productive organization. Listen in to hear Aziza share more, including specific examples of company successes. Aziza also encourages you to learn from customer stories and interviews in his web series, Destination:Insight, on The Oracle Analytics YouTube page. Richard Jacobs: Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the future tech podcast. I have Bruno Aziza, group vice president of AI data & analytics at Oracle and the website is oracle.com. Large corporations have been around a very long time. How are you doing today? Richard Jacobs: So what do you do as a new position that looks at AI at Oracle? What kind of projects are you working on? Bruno Aziza: Well, thank you and thanks for having me. Thanks for your listeners to take time for us.

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