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How Many of Your Daily Tasks Could Be Automated?

Harvard Business Review

It has also has inspired scholarship by academics such as Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford University, who estimate that 47% of occupations in the United States could be automated within 20 years, and David Autor of MIT, who argues that the ability of machines to take on human jobs is vastly overstated. economy.

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The Best Data Scientists Get Out and Talk to People

Harvard Business Review

After all, the job description involves poring through huge quantities of often disparate data to find insights that may prove helpful in every aspect of a business, including marketing, logistics, and human resources. Treat Osborn’s Law — “variables won’t; constants aren’t” — as your watchword.