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How social science research can inform the design of AI systems

O'Reilly on Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jacob Ward on the interplay between psychology, decision-making, and AI systems. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Jacob Ward , a Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University. Ward has an extensive background in journalism, mainly covering topics in science and technology, at National Geographic , Al Jazeera, Discovery Channel, BBC, Popular Science , and many other outlets.

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Prescriptive analytics: The cure for a transforming healthcare industry

IBM Big Data Hub

Prescriptive analytics offers healthcare decision makers the opportunity to influence optimal future outcomes. Based on decision optimization technology, these capabilities allow users to not just recommend the best course of action for patients or providers, they also enable comparison of multiple “what-if” scenarios to assess the impact of choosing one action over another.

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Spring Cleaning In December: Declutter Your Insights House

Srividya Sridharan

Feeling overwhelmed with all the data that your teams must wrangle before even getting to data science? Feeling like you have more than enough dashboards and tools? Feeling like you don’t have any more room in your complex data and analytics environment for yet another platform? Feeling like you can’t keep up with the exploding […].

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A CEO Question: Start With Culture OR Tech?

Mark Raskino

[link]. Recently I was asked this rather smart question by the CEO of a financial services company. He knows they must embark on a digital transformation journey. Given what we have learned from the experience of others, should he lead the effort with culture change or technology change? The reflexive answer that I expect you want to give is: “both”, in parallel.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Recent Cyber Attacks Demonstrate Why IRM is Critical for ERM Success

John Wheeler

In the last few weeks, several global shipping ports have been targeted with major cyber attacks. Ports in San Diego, California and Barcelona, Spain experienced significant business disruption as a result of ransomware. Land operations such as loading/unloading of boats as well as other related business services were halted for days while the technology groups worked to remedy the situation.

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Is your data strategy being hurt by these 3 cloud myths?

IBM Big Data Hub

Aberdeen reports that nearly 80% of businesses in their study are now using public cloud. But that still leaves over 20% of businesses that are not availing themselves of the benefits of public cloud.

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Tackling diversity head on—and with.heart

Nutanix

Here at Nutanix we’re guided by a set of culture principles that help us “live our culture.” As the official “ People Person” here, one in particular stands out to me: Hire Often, Hire Diverse.

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Win with AI: Insurance company Guidewell looks to get data for AI

IBM Big Data Hub

James Wade, Director of Application Hosting at Guidewell and IBM Analytics Hemanth Manda spoke with Dave Vellante in New York City on the eve of the 13 September taping of the Win with AI digital broadcast about the challenge of getting data ready for AI and how IBM Cloud Private for Data can help.

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Win with AI: John Thomas of IBM on putting skin in the data science game

IBM Big Data Hub

John Thomas, IBM distinguished engineer and director of analytics, talks with Dave Vellante in NYC ahead of the recent “Change the Game: Winning with AI event in NYC” to talk about how the IBM Data Science Elite team offers data science expertise as a service to a variety of clients to a variety of organizations, cutting across multiple industries.

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Empowering business users with automated decision management

IBM Big Data Hub

When Vallourec adopted IBM Operational Decision Manager to automate decision management, it add value to its end-to-end SAP ERP implementation.

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From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Predictive Analytics for Business Users Will Jump Start Business Growth

Smarten

Predictive Analytics is no longer limited to data scientists. Today, predictive analytics is, and must be, accessible to business users, if your enterprise is to grow and respond to the need for data democratization and increased productivity within the enterprise and to the rapid changes in the market, competition, resource and supplier needs and customer buying behavior.