Our credo
At Otzma Analytics, we believe that every problem is unique, that your data is unlike anyone else's. We believe in learning, in coming to each problem with a child-like curiosity, ready to be surprised by it. We learn the subtleties of your data and your data environment, and tailor a solution that makes best use of your specific goals and circumstances. And much like every problem is different, so must solutions be: there is no one size that fits all and no one algorithm above all others. Anyone can plot a correlation line, but to really bring business value requires a deep understanding and a rich toolkit to leverage it. Go beyond off-the-shelf solutions and harness the power of tailored analytics. Go beyond traditional predictive analytics and reap the benefits of causal modelling. You care about your data. So do we.Michael Brand, founder
Who we are
Michael Brand
FounderWith over 25 years of cutting-edge, international industry experience in advanced analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, machine vision and natural language processing, Dr. Brand’s data expertise is both uniquely wide and uniquely deep. He served as Chief Data Scientist at Telstra Corporation, as Senior Principal Data Scientist at Pivotal, as Chief Scientist at Verint Systems, as CTO Group Algorithm Leader at PrimeSense Ltd (in the machine-vision team that developed the XBox Kinect), and as Director of the Monash Centre for Data Science in his role as Associate Professor of Data Science at Monash University. He has developed solutions at every scale from on-chip to Big Data, from real-time to high-powered computing, and made industry-defining contributions that have earned him 16 patents (more pending), garnered many prestigious industry and academic awards, and underline $100Ms/pa revenues and $100Ms in valuation for the companies he worked with.
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What our clients say
I would like to thank Michael Brand for his insightful review of my report. His remarks were professional, evidence of meticulous and careful examination of both the methodology and the analysis applied in the report. I have learnt a lot from his feedback and have implemented many of his suggestions for improvement which made an important contribution to my work. I highly recommend Otzma Analytics and Michael Brand.
Dr. Ran Porat
researcher@Monash University[Michael, head of Otzma Analytics] helped me gain enormous clarity on how to use machine learning as a strategic objective as well as information and data needs, analytics, and Big Data within the world of Investment Management. He also has great insight into the pitfalls and unintended consequences of managing data science projects. I would recommend Michael for consultancy and training work to help you optimise the business value you gain from data whether it be analytical modelling, data science or using artificial intelligence and more specifically machine learning.
Michael Watt
CEO@PortfolioMetricsLatest News
"How to Lose Money on Analytics #3", October 10, 2019
In Otzma Analytics's new "How to Lose Money on Analytics" video, Dr Michael Brand, head of Otzma Analytics, explains "Why Artificial Intelligence isn’t What You Need", dispelling some widely-believed myths about this highly misunderstood buzzword. Share and subscribe for more! Or, better yet, contact us for Dr Brand to have a look at your data problems.
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"How to Lose Money on Analytics", August 10, 2019
In the video series "How to Lose Money on Analytics", Dr Michael Brand, head of Otzma Analytics, provides a roadmap for avoiding the common pitfalls of advanced analytics. See the full series here. Share and subscribe for more! Or, better yet, contact us for Dr Brand to have a look at your data work.
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ABC News interview, March 14, 2019
In a recent interview on ABC National News, Otzma Analytics founder Dr Michael Brand was called in to opine on recent criminal investigations against Facebook, regarding its allegedly illegal data deals to share customer and link data with more than 150 other companies, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Sony. Dr Brand’s verdict: what was missing here is transparency. The problem would not have existed if Facebook’s practices were subject to external review of the kind Otzma Analytics provides.
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