Issues in analytics: Who/what is to blame?

Michiko Wolcott
5 min readApr 7, 2024

“Don’t blame AI; blame the data.” This is an exact quote from a recent social media post by a well-known provider of analytics tools.

I get where this is coming from. I have been an advocate of and worked with many organizations on proper data management practices for a long time.

On the surface, the quote looks like AI people complaining and finger-pointing at…

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Michiko Wolcott

Michiko is the managing partner and principal consultant of Msight Analytics, a management consulting firm focused on data and analytics. msightanalytics.com