Preparing your business for Machine Learning

A couple of years ago, I was speaking with a CTO of a pre-product company that was looking to hire an analytics lead. His team of engineers was working on the product, which was to be launched in 6 months. He had no user data available for the analyst to analyze, yet he wanted an analyst in his team. The analyst’s role at the time was to work with the engineers to ensure incoming data will be collected…