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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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While you may never be asked to program a neural network or an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, Citizens of Data Science must have a rough idea of how these algorithms work and what these algorithms are good at doing. Hopefully, the chapter helped to demystify data science and advanced analytics and provided the foundation for everyone to feel comfortable and empowered to participate in these analytics conversations. Finally, there is a dramatic conceptual difference between level-3 and level-4 analytics. The primary goal of level-3 analytics is to help improve, or optimize, human decision-making. However, level-4 analytics introduces an entirely new concept around learning analytics – analytics that can learn and adapt with minimal human intervention. The next chapter will focus on understanding how AI works and the critical role of the AI utility function in guiding the AI model's workings. I will also explain the vital role that you as humans play in defining...

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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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