[mercari GEARS 2025] A New Era of Data Utilization Driven by AI/LLMs - Creating an Analytics Platform for Humans and Data Analysis AI Agents to Collaborate

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1. A New Era of Data Utilization Driven by AI/LLMs: Creating an Analytics Platform for Humans and Data Analysis AI Agents to Collaborate
 Kentaro Kobayashi
 Mercari / Manager
 Naofumi Yamada
 Mercari / Analytics Engineer

2. The Journey to Socrates

3. The Challenge: Before Socrates
 Data was only for the few.

4. Our Solution: Socrates, the AI Data Agent
 SQL Generation
 Visualization
 Insights

5. How We Got Here: The Groundwork for Success
 A Strong Data Foundation
 Standardized data created the perfect environment for AI
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 Early & Continuous LLM R&D
 Accumulated knowledge was the key to unlock potential
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 Socrates_
 An Inevitable Outcome

6. Under the Hood: 
 Powering Socrates

7. How Socrates "Thinks"
 Proactive Partner Mercari Language Smart Data Finder Explains steps & clarifies questions.
8. How Socrates "Learns"
 Direct Feedback Indirect Feedback Collective Feedback Socrates continuously learns and evolves from every form of feedback. Rewrite
9. Our Approach: Start Simple, Learn Fast
 
 Build a PoC Quickly Release to Users Early Since advanced AI is now more achievable, our process is built for speed: build, release, and iterate.
10. The Future: 
 Co-working with AI

11. The Vision: From Reactive Analyst to Proactive Guide
 BEFORE: Analyst
 AFTER: Guide
 A tool to find answers
 = Human asks, AI answers
 A partner to discover insights
 = AI proposes, Human decides

12. Our Four Guiding Principles
 1. Proactive over Reactive 2. Integrated over Fragmented 3. Trust First 4. Data and Knowledge
13. The Future of Data Analysis

14. We are Hiring!
 AI / Data Product Engineer
 Data Platform Engineer

15. Thank You!