‘Data analytics isn’t all about building magic models’ 7 seconds ago2 Views Image: María Isabel Meza Silva Data analytics researcher María Isabel Meza Silva is helping Irish manufacturing businesses step into the era of industry 4.0, and hopes to see the industry in Colombia follow suit. Originally from Colombia, María Isabel Meza Silva holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from University of Los Andes. In 2017, she came to Ireland and joined Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR) as a data analytics intern. IMR is an Enterprise Ireland and IDA-supported research and technology centre with labs and industrial pilot lines in Dublin and Mullingar. Following a few months back at University of Los Andes, Meza Silva returned to Ireland in 2018 and has been working as a fully fledged data analytics researcher at IMR since then.