Data science is vital to business success. It’s our window into the likes and habits of our customers, creating opportunities to glean insights from the mountains of data we collect every day. Data has always helped businesses with decision-making, but AI is taking it a step further. So much so that today it can even be applied to the practice of creating impressive email subject lines. Machine learning for information management is now a key ally for every organization worldwide.

For our latest expert interview on our blog, we’ve welcomed the Director of Data Science and Machine Learning at Included, Michael Chang. Michael helps measure and optimize workforce diversity and inclusion efforts through data. Prior to Included, Michael worked in various data capacities at Facebook, Teach for America, Interactive Corp, and eBay. Michael also enjoys teaching and is an adjunct instructor for data science at UCLA Extension and Harvard FAS.

Corporate finance must change. Across industries, an organization’s Finance team should shed light on what’s happening today with revenue and other financial indicators, while also predicting what the future may hold. And they must do the same for the entire organization. Until recently, it would have been impossible to meet these expectations. Excel-driven forecasting requires herculean efforts to wrangle data and report numbers by the end of each quarter.

Apache Ozone is a scalable distributed object store that can efficiently manage billions of small and large files. Ozone natively provides Amazon S3 and Hadoop Filesystem compatible endpoints in addition to its own native object store API endpoint and is designed to work seamlessly with enterprise scale data warehousing, machine learning and streaming workloads. The object store is readily available alongside HDFS in CDP (Cloudera Data Platform) Private Cloud Base 7.1.3+.

Cybersecurity is at a critical turning point, especially in the wake of the global lockdown that caused companies worldwide to conduct more online business than ever before. No organization is immune to data breaches, as hackers are using more sophisticated techniques — such as artificial intelligence — to perform these cyberattacks.

In this episode of Data+AI Battlescars (formerly CDO Battlescars), Sandeep Uttamchandani talks to Chu-Cheng, CDO at Etsy. This episode focuses on Chu-Cheng’s battlescars related to recruiting and building a data science team. Chu-Cheng leads the global data organization at Etsy. He’s responsible for data science, AI innovation, machine learning and data infrastructure. Prior to Etsy, Chu-Cheng has led various data roles, including at Amazon, Intuit, Rakuten and eBay.