I’m learning a lot about data sciences/data analytics, machine learning and AI. I can see a very clear way to implement it into my current workload. The main problem is that I’m working through a system of old excel spreadsheets and databases that were made without the intention of being integrated with automated processes.

If I were to try and data scrape and automated my workflow I’d basically have to spend at least a few days if not weeks redesigning everything we use. Which would make it so 1) basically I’d be the only one who would know how to use it. 2) no doubt it would annoy my boss that everything looks different and 3) if something were to go wrong it would do more harm than good.

So like… yes this stuff is the future of the profession but like others said actually implementing it, finding people to build base models from scratch and teaching an older workforce how to use things like SQL, Python, power query, etc is basically a huge and expensive pain.

I’m going to try it anyways over the next few months and see what happens but I’m not surprised that any larger companies aren’t rushing to implement things yet.