Moving towards, machine learning, NLP, and AI Survey

This 5-7 minute survey asks questions about your organization’s strategies, plans, and opinions about advanced analytics – specifically AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and other ‘new’ technologies in the market. Advanced analytics can provide a significant path to value for organizations. However, some organizations feel they don’t need it or, if they do struggle with putting an effective strategy together. Part of the issue is with technology. Additionally, there are organizational implications that must be addressed in order for companies to achieve value. The purpose of this best practices report is to guide professionals in understanding best practices and options for implementing some of the newer technologies that are coming onto the market. This includes organizational strategies as well as new platform options, and staffing plans.WHO SHOULD TAKE THE SURVEY? -- This survey is geared to towards IT, analytics, data science, and business professionals who support data and analytics initiatives and understand how more advanced analytics is used or may be used in their companies.   Consultants should answer questions with their most recent client in mind.  WE WANT YOUR INPUT REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE IMPLEMENTING THESE TECHNOLOGIES TODAY OR NOT!!!DIRECTIONS -- If you’ve enabled cookies for your browser, you can leave the survey, then return to complete it later. The survey asks for your comments and we welcome them and we can analyze them! Note that this survey will be live until July 10, 2017.DEFINITIONSFor the purpose of the survey, the following definitions are used: The theory and practice of building computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. A kind of data analysis where systems learn from data to identify patterns with minimal human intervention. Often used in predictive analytics. Also used for image recognition and other tasks. A field of computer science that focuses on systems that can understand  human language. Includes information extraction as well as sentiment analysis.