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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. What benefit does AI serve to that department? But at the end of the day, it boils down to statistics.

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Advice from procurement: How to evaluate and propose new IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the world continues to experience economic uncertainty, IT leaders look to tighten budgets, consolidate tools and resources, and generally become more risk-averse when evaluating new investments. So how can you request a new investment from your decision-makers while ensuring minimal costs and maximum ROI this year?

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Belcorp reimagines R&D with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As Furthermore, we succinctly conveyed the platform’s value and benefits to the end-users through a series of workshops and demos, thus ensuring the platform’s adoption.”

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Burnout: An IT epidemic in the making

CIO Business Intelligence

Women disproportionately affected by burnout For women, the statistics around burnout are even worse. The benefits of curbing burnout in your organization include better retention, easier recruitment, improved productivity, and better efficiency from your workforce.

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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Big Data Hub

LLMs like ChatGPT are trained on massive amounts of text data, allowing them to recognize patterns and statistical relationships within language. While cost wasn’t the primary driver, it reflects a growing belief that the value generated by gen AI outweighs the price tag.

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New Thinking, Old Thinking and a Fairytale

Peter James Thomas

Of course it can be argued that you can use statistics (and Google Trends in particular) to prove anything [1] , but I found the above figures striking. Optimising business processes was intended to deliver reduced costs, increased efficiency and to transform also-rans into World-class organisations. Source: Google Trends.