Here Sky shares the challenges and learnings in bringing a new technology to a workplace that already has successful methodologies and established working patterns.

1. Paradigms, change and
cake: the steep curve of
introducing new
technologies
Dr. Ruth Gonzaga
Paradigms, change and
cake: the steep curve of
introducing new
technologies

3. How to Start a Movement

4. “Advance your change on their terms”
People who don’t feel
empowered to
change the rules
Nay Sayers
Define success metrics up
front
Hidden Allies
Tried to solve the problem
before or are also interested
Cross-departmental
collaboration
A win for everyone
Find out what is working for
them about the existing
rules and what they are
afraid of losing if they
change them

5. It starts with You

8. Crafting a message

9. Engaging with Social Proof

11. What is in it for Me?
Added Value Fast, Lean and Simple
Human Friendly
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• Well …. It’s been a learning curve.
• Visualisation: easy to understand information
about features and relationships.
• Interpretation: easy to follow the flow of
information between the features.
• Translation: easy to represent any business
question in a graph format and to modify the
graph to adapt to different questions.
• Graph models allow to include information on
the relationships between datapoints, enriching
the dataset.
• Graphs help uncover hidden features that can
be used in models.
• Graph specific algorithms like path metrics and
centrality and GraphML algorithms provide new
analytics tools in addition to our current Data
Science toolkit.
FastER, LeanER and SimplISH
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13. Not only a new language, but new tools

14. Graph model
• Converting tabular data (e.g.
clickstream/viewing) into a graph
structure allows for a clearer analysis
of the user journey and common
patterns through different sessions
• Graphs are made of:
• Nodes (features)
• Relationships
• Properties
Viewing Device Title Genre Package Day of week Time of day …
1 a Barbie Kids Movie Sunday Breakfast
2 b GOT Fantasy Series Friday Late evening
3 a The Batman Action Movie Saturday Late evening
4 a Arsenal v
MUN
Football Sports Wednesday Late evening
Viewing data
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Don’t think about a pink elephant

15. https://neo4j.com/developer-blog/graph-refactoring-the-hard-way/
Analysis paralysis

16. This is just plain wrong

17. Hands down the best resources