You know how it is, despite how much you plan for a debate/live speaking situation, there’s always something that pops in to your head on the train home that makes you think, “oh I wish I’d said that.” Since last week’s digifest I have had several of those moments.
As I wrote about last week, I took part in the “do analytics interventions always need to be mediated by humans” debate. I was defending that motion. I tried to explain my thoughts in this post. Richard Palmer from Tribal put up a strong case taking the other view. In the end, despite me claiming a Trump like spectacular, popular victory ( Many people said so), the final vote was pretty close. Due mainly to the word “always” and Richard’s pretty convincing argument that there are some alerts and “low level” interventions can be automated and so do not “always” need human intervention.
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