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Karthik Shashidhar
Karthik Shashidhar

Karthik Shashidhar

Co-founder, Virtual Chief Analytics Officer
Babbage Insight
Bio

Karthik Shashidhar is a co-founder of Babbage Insight, a company building “virtual Chief Analytics Oficers”. Karthik is an award-winning data science leader who was most recently (prior to starting Babbage) Head of Analytics and Data Science at Delhivery, India’s largest technology-first logistics company. Karthik has been a columnist for Mint (India’s premier business newspaper) and a visiting professor at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Bangalore. He has written a book on market design called Between The Buyer And The Seller. Ranking in the top 0.01% of the famously competitive entrance examinations of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and IIMs, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras and an MBA from IIM Bangalore. He lives in Bangalore, India.


Building an AI Data Analyst

Data analysis and insight generation are traditionally viewed as creative and iterative processes requiring close collaboration between analysts and business leaders. This iterative exercise involves not only understanding the business problem but also diving deep into the data, extracting meaningful insights, and effectively communicating findings. With advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly in generative AI and large language models (LLMs), we now have the tools to automate significant portions of this process, enhancing productivity and enabling faster decision-making. This talk will explore how we are leveraging a combination of traditional data science techniques and generative AI capabilities to build an AI-enabled data analyst that automates data cleaning, exploration, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and visualization (among others), ultimately generating actionable insights. An AI-enabled data analyst not only automates the technical steps of data analysis but also facilitates the iterative dialogue between analysts and business leaders. By combining the precision of traditional data science with the flexibility of generative AI, we are reimagining the way insights are generated and communicated.

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