FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
of data science tasks, citizen data scientists
will surpass data scientists in terms of the
amount of advanced analysis produced.
Personal analytics is the analysis of
contextually relevant data to provide
personalised insight, predictions and/
or recommendations for the benefit of
individual users.
"Personal analytics is the analytics
layer of VPAs which will reach mainstream
adoption by 2020," said Nick Ingelbrecht,
Research Director at Gartner. "They are
rooted in individuals' engagement with
technology and the way they generate
insight from a variety of unstructured
data, such as photos, social interactions,
purchases, preferences and health
indicators. They can take the forms of virtual
personal health assistants, financial advice
assistants and shopping assistants.”
This year, citizen data science enters the
Hype Cycle. It forms the foundation of next-
generation analytics. "It will make insights
from data science and Machine Learning
more accessible and pervasive in the
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS
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CIOs should approach
adaptive learning
projects as a large-scale
curricular redesign
undertaking.
organisation," said Carlie Idoine, Research
Director at Gartner. “Central to enabling
citizen data science are the aforementioned
augmented analytics capabilities.”
Gartner anticipates that citizen data
science will rapidly become an important
part of the way we enable and scale
data science capabilities throughout the
organisation. Gartner also predicts that, by
2020, more than 40% of data science tasks
will be automated, resulting in increased
productivity and broader usage by citizen
data scientists.
Adaptive learning platforms adjust the
way instructional content is presented
to users based on their responses or
preferences and are used to optimise
workforce digital dexterity. The technology
is sliding into the Hype Cycle’s ‘Trough of
Disillusionment’ and is on pace to reach the
‘Plateau of Productivity’ in the next two to
five years.
"Adaptive learning platforms offer an
important way to support and supplement
workplace learning but they are difficult to
implement," said Glenda Morgan, Research
Director at Gartner.
"CIOs should approach adaptive learning
projects as a large-scale curricular redesign
undertaking. To this end, they should seek
to identify faculty champions, find ways to
incentivise the faculty, and make sure they
have broad buy-in for these projects."
More detailed analysis is available to
Gartner clients in the report Hype Cycle for
the Digital Workplace, 2018.
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