<p><div><div><div><div data-show-faces="false" data-height="21" data-width="100" data-layout="button_count" data-send="true" data-href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/your-ai-journey-and-happy-holidays/"></div></div><div></div></div><div></div></div>
<div>
(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.ephorie.de/your-ai-journey-and-happy-holidays"> R-Bloggers – Learning Machines</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<div data-backend-url="http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/plugins/shariff-sharing/backend/index.php" data-temp="/tmp" data-orientation="horizontal" data-lang="en" data-theme="color" data-service="gftlr" data-services="[&quot;googleplus&quot;,&quot;facebook&quot;,&quot;twitter&quot;,&quot;linkedin&quot;,&quot;reddit&quot;,&quot;whatsapp&quot;,&quot;mail&quot;,&quot;info&quot;]" data-title="Your AI journey… and Happy Holidays!" data-info-url="http://ct.de/-2467514" data-ttl="60" data-url="http://blog.ephorie.de/your-ai-journey-and-happy-holidays" data-image="http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-1024x341.jpghttp://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-1024x341.jpg 1024w, http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-300x100.jpg 300w, http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-768x256.jpg 768w, http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-1200x399.jpg 1200w, http://blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280.jpg 1280w"></div>
<p>I want to draw your attention to a very valuable (and short!) whitepaper from my colleague, Professor Andrew Ng, where he shares important insights on how to lead companies into the AI era.</p>
<p>The five steps outlined in the paper are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Execute pilot projects to gain momentum</li>
<li>Build an in-house AI team</li>
<li>Provide broad AI training</li>
<li>Develop an AI strategy</li>
<li>Develop internal and external communications</li>
</ol>
<p>Many points raised in the paper coincide with my own consulting experience in different industries: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://landing.ai/ai-transformation-playbook/" target="_blank">AI Transformation Playbook</a></p>
<p>I also recently gave an interview on the same topic, you can find it here:<br>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://blogs.sas.com/content/hiddeninsights/2018/05/30/artificial-intelligence-how-companies-innovate-best/" target="_blank">Artificial intelligence: What is the best way for companies to innovate?</a></p>
<p>Happy reading!</p>
<p>If you need qualified support/consulting for your own AI journey, especially for crafting an AI strategy, setting up and management of AI projects, building an AI organization and planning/conducting AI coachings please contact me here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.ephorie.de/about" target="_blank">Prof. Dr. Holger K. von Jouanne-Diedrich</a></p>
<p><img sizes="(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px" src="https://i0.wp.com/blog.ephorie.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/web-3706561_1280-1024x341.jpg?w=450" alt="" class="wp-image-213" data-recalc-dims="1"></p>
<p>…and now for something completely different: like every year Christmas arrives totally unexpected!</p>
<p>So, I wish you a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays (whatever applies <img alt="😉" src="https://i2.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/1f609.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"> ) with the following little <code>ctree</code> function:</p>
<pre>
# ctree: prints a Christmas tree with numbers of branch levels N
ctree &lt;- function(N = 7) {
  for (i in 1:N) cat(rep(&quot;&quot;, N-i+1), rep(&quot;&quot;, i), &quot;\n&quot;)
  cat(rep(&quot;&quot;, N), &quot;*\n&quot;)
}

ctree(5)
##      *
##     * *
##    * * *
##   * * * *
##  * * * * *
##      *
ctree()
##        *
##       * *
##      * * *
##     * * * *
##    * * * * *
##   * * * * * *
##  * * * * * * *
##        *
ctree(9)
##          *
##         * *
##        * * *
##       * * * *
##      * * * * *
##     * * * * * *
##    * * * * * * *
##   * * * * * * * *
##  * * * * * * * * *
##          *
</pre>
	<p>
<div>
<div>To <strong>leave a comment</strong> for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: <strong><a href="http://blog.ephorie.de/your-ai-journey-and-happy-holidays"> R-Bloggers – Learning Machines</a></strong>.</div>
<hr>
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers.com</a> offers <strong><a rel="nofollow" href="https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=RBloggers">daily e-mail updates</a></strong> about <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-project.org/" title="The R Project for Statistical Computing">R</a> news and <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/tutorial" title="R tutorials">tutorials</a> on topics such as: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/data%20science" title="Data science">Data science</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/Big%20Data" title="Big Data">Big Data, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-users.com/" title="R jobs">R jobs</a>, visualization (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/ggplot2" title="ggplot and ggplot2 tutorials">ggplot2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/boxplot" title="Boxplots using lattice and ggplot2 tutorials">Boxplots</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/map" title="Maps and gis">maps</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/animation" title="Animation in R">animation</a>), programming (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/RStudio" title="RStudio IDE for R">RStudio</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/sweave" title="Sweave and literate programming">Sweave</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/LaTeX" title="LaTeX in R">LaTeX</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/SQL" title="SQL and databases">SQL</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/eclipse" title="Eclipse IDE for R">Eclipse</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/git" title="git and github, Version Control System">git</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/hadoop" title="Large data in R using Hadoop">hadoop</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/Web+Scraping" title="Web Scraping of google, facebook, yahoo, twitter and more using R">Web Scraping</a>) statistics (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/regression" title="Regressions and ANOVA analysis tutorials">regression</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/PCA" title="principal component analysis tutorial">PCA</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/time+series" title="Time series">time series</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/search/trading" title="finance trading">trading</a>) and more...
<img alt="" width="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RBloggers/~4/pxeU0cZkyH0" height="1"></a></div>