Who is best to educate corporate executives? How about a college professor who was once a corporate executive herself. John and Mark welcome Christy Crute to the Rock Bottom Data Feed. Former executive at multiple Fortune 50 companies; current Professor, Business Analytics at Grove City College. In the first of our two-part conversation, Dr. Crute shares her observations about how AI is shaping education, not by replacing foundational skills, but by elevating critical thinking, curiosity, and judgment. Students still need deep domain understanding even as AI handles more of the mechanics because “reasonableness” may become one of the most important skills of all.
In this episode we also preview an upcoming guest: Sam Spencer of Aristotle Metadata in Australia. Not to give too much away, but Sam caused a bit of a fuss down under with some unflattering observations about government investments in data.
As always, if you have a verse or two for the Data Poetry Slam, or question in 256-characters, write us.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Archedataology from the Future – Part 2;
05:58 – Monologue;
08:41 – Christy Crute Part 1;
37:21 – Dispatches from Rock Bottom;
39:27 – Data Poetry Slam;
40:25 – The 8-Bit Consultants;
42:02 – Recap & Close