Greater clarity and more information about the data used in A.I. “This is a step toward managing data as an asset, which is what everyone in industry is trying to do today,” said Ken Finnerty, president for information technology and data analytics at UPS. In one poll of corporate chief executives, a majority cited “concerns about data lineage or provenance” as a key barrier to A.I. And a survey of data scientists found that they spent nearly 40 percent of their time on data preparation tasks. The data initiative is mainly intended for business data that companies use to make their own A.I.

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