chief data officer Concepts

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

by Hannah Fry · 17 Sep 2018 · 296pp · 78,631 words

hit the press, but the algorithms are out there, quietly hiding behind the corporate front lines. About a year ago, I got chatting to a chief data officer of a company that sells insurance. They had access to the full detail of people’s shopping habits via a supermarket loyalty scheme. In their

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist · 27 Jun 2016

expert business knowledge regarding the company strategy and short-medium-long term goals. This is why there is a new C-suite position called the Chief Data Officer. Commitment to Innovation A company adopting IIOT has to make a commitment to innovation, as well as taking a long-term perspective to the IIoT

Bad Data Handbook

by Q. Ethan McCallum · 14 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 86,855 words

of Innovation and Technology for the City of Chicago. He has been in that role since June of 2012. Brett was previously the city’s Chief Data Officer. In this role, he lead the city’s approach to using data to help improve the way the government works for its residents. Before coming

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to City Hall as Chief Data Officer, he founded and commanded the Chicago Police Department’s Predictive Analytics Group, which aims to predict when and where crime will happen. Prior to entering

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff · 14 Oct 2021 · 309pp · 96,168 words

scientists, and product managers,” says Jenn. “We have very few people in merchandising and marketing. The first C-level hire that I made was a chief data officer, and he was in my first ten employees. From the very beginning of the company, we were thinking about data. “We are getting data from

Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane

by Brett King · 5 May 2016 · 385pp · 111,113 words

financial journalist before changing careers over three decades ago to enter that strange space where society, technology and banking converge. Now 58, Rangaswami works as chief data officer at a major financial institution, having previously been chief scientist and chief information officer at a number of global institutions. He is Adjunct Professor at

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

by Peter Robison · 29 Nov 2021 · 382pp · 105,657 words

this feeling of camaraderie.” The openness extended to the FAA. Airplane safety manager Paul Russell remembers a meeting in which Mulally hosted the agency’s chief data officer in a hangar where one of the first aircraft was being assembled. Mulally introduced the FAA official to every person there—by name. “My first

Demystifying Smart Cities

by Anders Lisdorf

, change, and view specific types of data. For governance to work, we need someone to be responsible and make decisions. There will typically be a Chief Data Officer or CDO at the top. There will also be a governance board with key stakeholders. First it needs to be determined at a general logical

The Fifth Risk

by Michael Lewis · 1 Oct 2018 · 157pp · 53,125 words

moved the data, for free, to the cloud. “That was the first data set we were able to get onto the cloud,” said Ed Kearns, chief data officer at NOAA. “David showed Google and Amazon and Microsoft that there was a business case for taking it. Until we got it up, no one

Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

by Anthony M. Townsend · 29 Sep 2013 · 464pp · 127,283 words

Perhaps not surprisingly, his partner in reinventing Chicago’s government as a data-driven enterprise is himself a crime mapper. The country’s first municipal chief data officer, Brett Goldstein was brought over from the Chicago Police Department where, Tolva says, “he was crunching huge amounts of past crime data to nightly redeploy

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being sued by another transit-arrival patent troll, Luxembourg-based ArrivalStar).18 Cities will need regular audits, perhaps conducted by a chief privacy officer or chief data officer charged with extending public control over government- and citizen-generated data. An intriguing option is to hand off this data to a trust equipped to

Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics

by David Reed · 31 Aug 2021 · 168pp · 49,067 words

technology is becoming a commodity – more affordable, but providing less competitive advantage. Technology is not the transformer Crossing the data bridge Back in 2018, the chief data officer (CDO) of a telco giant recognised the opportunity that existed from monetising anonymised, aggregated location data. As a tool for developing and supporting services as