Can AI Improve an Awful Audiobook Cover?
AI can easily create better output than lazy professionals can.
In 2017, Wiley published my eighth bookāAnalytics: The Agile Way. Here's the quick backstory behind it.
How That Text Came to Be
After cranking out seven books in seven years, writing another one soon after accepting an offer to join the ASU faculty was the last thing on my mind. That all changed a few weeks after I started prepping to teach CIS450: Analytics Capstone. When I viewed the existing course materials, I was aghast. The text that prior instructors had been using was utterly useless. Studentsāall seniorsāfound it confusing, vapid, and poorly organized. Above all, they weren't wrong.
I wasn't looking at ASU as a one- or two-year gig. To that end, I began scouring Amazon for better existing titles. One had to exist. A few looked promising, and the books' publishers sent me copies gratis. It took me about a month to realize that the book I wanted to use in the class just didn't exist. Cue Toni Morrison quote.
Over winter break after my first semester, I banged out the manuscript to what was objectively a far better textbook. Here's its cover:
