Robbie Allen

Managing Director, Automated Consulting Group · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 opinion · 2 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Robbie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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266 words/min while actually speaking · 20.9 um and uh per 1k words

No argument clarity score for Robbie Allen: no usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,781 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Robbie Allen said on the MAD Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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)
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)
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)
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)
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)

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Robbie Allen, Automated insights // Data Driven #28 // June 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capi Jun 26, 2014 16m
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