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Published inJul 2023
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Bill Schmarzo
Bill Schmarzo
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Bill Schmarzo

Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data is a University of San Francisco School of Management Executive Fellow and an Honorary Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland-Galway where he teaches and mentors students in his courses “Big Data MBA” and “Thinking Like a Data Scientist". He is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, and The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist. He has written countless whitepapers, articles and blogs, and given keynote presentations and university lectures on the topics of data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data economics, design thinking and team empowerment.
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In this chapter, we want to focus on the secret to successful AI and data literacy—empowering your people. This may well be the most challenging chapter in the book because it forces the Citizen of Data Science to embrace a very uncomfortable and even troubling concept – ambiguity. Ambiguity – the quality of being open to more than one interpretation – is the key to human, society, and organizational evolution. If everyone has the same perspectives and same opinions, if our thinking is just a clone of everyone else’s thinking, then human evolution and growth is over, and AI will win.To quote Peter McWilliams:

“Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.”

This chapter will be uncomfortable because everyone desires to work with people like themselves. It’s easier...

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Published in: Jul 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835083505

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Bill Schmarzo

Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data is a University of San Francisco School of Management Executive Fellow and an Honorary Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland-Galway where he teaches and mentors students in his courses “Big Data MBA” and “Thinking Like a Data Scientist". He is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, and The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist. He has written countless whitepapers, articles and blogs, and given keynote presentations and university lectures on the topics of data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data economics, design thinking and team empowerment.
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