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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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Price Elasticity

Price Elasticity of demand is the quantitative measure of consumer behavior that indicates the quantity of demand for a product or service depending on its increase or decrease in price.

Price Elasticity of demand is the degree to which the effective demand for some item or service changes as its price changes. Price elasticity of demand is an indicator of the impact of a price change, up or down, on the demand for an item or service. As the item or service gets more expensive, fewer people or organizations can afford that item or service. Likewise, as the item or service gets less expensive, more people and organizations can consequently afford that item or service.

The price elasticity of demand is calculated as the percentage change in quantity demanded divided by the percentage change in price. If the price elasticity of demand is greater than 1.0, then the price is elastic (that is, demand for the product is sensitive to an increase in price). If the...

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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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