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AI Product Management and Design: The Missing Links in Effective Data Science and Analytics?
As an analytics leader you're tasked with ensuring that your data analytics product - a model, a decision support tool, etc. actually produces value for the business. Unfortunately very few analytics products do so. Join Brian O'Neill as he shares his expertise and research on how a "product thinking" approach
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Episode 5: Paul Ballew + Key Takeaways
Canadian culture revolves around a healthy lifestyle and few national brands deliver on those values the way Loblaw does. Food, health and wellness, fashion and beauty, and financial security are all at the heart of Loblaw’s brand and values. Lurking just beneath the surface is a highly sophisticated data and
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Episode 6: Gina Papush + Key Takeaways
Staying healthy has never been more important than right now. Affordable, high-quality healthcare has been the foundation of CIGNA’s mission since its founding. The sheer size and reach of this global brand means that data and analytics is an essential fuel that drives decision-making. Gina Papush is setting CIGNA’s vision
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Episode 7: John Pyhtila + Key Takeaways
Throughout the Northeast of the United States and around the world, the Mass General Hospital brand stands for high-quality healthcare delivery and outcomes and world-class research. Formerly Partners Healthcare, Mass General Brigham consists of 12 world-class healthcare facilities. John Pyhtila joins me in this episode to share how AI and
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Data as a Shared Language – A Business Accelerator
Earlier this year, I wrote about the City of San Francisco and how its CDO, Joy Bonaguro led a massive enterprise training program to boost data literacy about five years ago. The SF Data Academy was designed to train the masses and up-skill the workforce on tools, technology, and best
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You Often Want Your Models To Be Wrong
A few weeks back, I was in a discussion with some analytics executives when one gentleman made a point that sounded odd at first. He suggested that in many cases we actually want the predictions we make with our models to be wrong, not right. After hearing his explanation, however,
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Metric Insights
Driving consistent use and widespread adoption of business intelligence continues to challenge many organizations, impeding their progress in advanced analytics. In this webinar, IIA CAO Bill Franks and Metric Insights CEO Marius Moscovici will explore the conditions that create these challenges, and frame potential responses to the issues preventing organizations
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How Machine Learning Works – In 20 Seconds
This article is based on a transcript from Eric Siegel’s Machine Learning for Everyone (fully free to access on Coursera). You can also view the video version of this specific article. In 57 words, here's why machine learning’s important: Business needs prediction. Prediction requires machine learning. And machine learning depends
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Analytics Application Lifecycle
In this webinar, IIA Expert Marc Demarest and IIA VP Doug Mirsky will share a framework designed to guide analytics organizations in engaging their relevant internal partners to memorialize analytics application stages, gates, dependents and decision rights, helping companies move analytics efforts along more quickly and more effectively.
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97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Needs To Know
Bill Franks compiled a variety of perspectives serving as editor for the new book 97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Needs To Know. Join Bill and a panel of book co-contributors in this discussion of the state of analytics and AI ethics today. The panelists will cover some