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Robbie Allen

Managing Director, Automated Consulting Group. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Robbie Allen is an entrepreneur who founded Automated Insights, the creator of the Wordsmith natural language generation platform acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2015. He also co-founded Infinia ML and Bionic Health, was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, and has authored 10 technical books.

What they said5 Shows1

Everything Robbie Allen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MAD Prediction Not checkable as stated

Robbie Allen predicts data scientist roles will largely disappear by 2024

“In five to 10 years, the role, at least the role of data scientist or data engineer will largely go away, or mostly change, and it'll turn into programming systems like ours.”

Robbie Allen Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 15:06 Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated

Automated Insights generated more content than all media combined in 2013

“We generated more content than all the media companies combined last year. Again, three hundred million.”

Robbie Allen Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 12:59 Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Insight

Robbie Allen: Most people do not care about data visualizations

“Most people don't really care about visualizations. They just want to know what the heck the data's telling them. As easy as they possibly can get it.”

Robbie Allen Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 6:34 Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Insight

Robbie Allen: Most dashboards eventually become useless as users establish baselines

“Eventually most dashboards become useless Because people are already used to seeing it, it's giving them the same information that mostly that they saw last month or last week, and so they stopped looking at it.”

Robbie Allen Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 7:25 Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

MAD Opinion

Robbie Allen: Data visualizations do not actually tell stories

“Despite companies like Tableau and others that like to talk about how visualizations tell a story, they actually don't tell stories.”

Robbie Allen Jun 26, 2014 ▶ 7:37 Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Robbie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MADLEDGER	Managing Director, Automated Consulting Group	1	5	—	full record on the MAD Podcast →