My presentation from Big Data Munich: How decision automation based on big data and machine learning can help you run a better business and avoid common cognitive biases.
15. HOW DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS SHOULD WORK
COMPUTER
COLLECTS
COMPUTER
STORES
HUMAN
ANALYZES
HUMAN
PREDICTS
HUMAN
DECIDES
16. HOW DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS REALLY WORK
COMPUTER
COLLECTS
COMPUTER
STORES
HUMAN
ANALYZES
COMMUNICATION
BREAKDOWN
HUMAN
DECIDES
17. COMMUNICATION
BREAKDOWN
Communication Breakdown, It's always the same,
I'm having a nervous breakdown, Drive me insane!
— LED ZEPPELIN
• Drill-down analysis … misunderstood or distorted
• Metrics dashboards … contradictory and confusing
• Monthly reports … ignored after two iterations
• In-house analyst teams … overworked and powerless
29. “Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And nothing
always brings you nowhere..”
–ROBIN SHARMA
30. BUSINESS RULES FOR BEGINNERS
Not doing anything is the simplest business rule
in the world – and also the most popular
31. ADVANCED BUSINESS RULES
Computers are machines following rules. This
means business rules are programs.
32. BUSINESS RULES ARE PROGRAMS,
JUST NOT VERY GOOD PROGRAMS.
• Business rules are like programs – written by
non-programmers
• Business rules can be contradictory, incomplete,
and complex beyond comprehension
• Business rules have no built-in feedback
mechanism: “It is the rule, because it is the rule”
33. HUMAN DECISION
MAKING
• • System 1: Fast, automatic,
frequent, emotional, stereotypic,
subconscious
• • System 2: Slow, effortful,
infrequent, logical, calculating,
conscious
DANIEL KAHNEMANN, THINKING FAST
AND SLOW
34. HOW TO DECIDE FAST
FREQUENT DECISION MAKING MEANS FAST DECISION MAKING,
MEANS USING HEURISTICS OR COGNITIVE BIASES
Anchoring effect
IKEA effect
Over-justification effect
Bandwagon effect
Confirmation bias
Substitution
Availability heuristic Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Gambler’s fallacy
Illusory correlation
Rhyme as reason effect
Hindsight bias
Zero-risk bias
Framing effect
Sunk cost fallacy
Overconfidence
Outcome bias
Inattentional Blindness
Benjamin Franklin effect
Anecdotal evidence
Negativity bias
Loss aversion
Backfire effect
35.
36. • Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both presidents of
the United States, elected 100 years apart.
• Both were shot and killed by assassins who were known by
three names with 15 letters, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey
Oswald, and neither killer would make it to trial.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and Kennedy had a
secretary named Lincoln.
• They were both killed on a Friday while sitting next to their
wives, Lincoln in the Ford Theater, Kennedy in a Lincoln made
by Ford.
37. • Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both presidents of
the United States, elected 100 years apart.
• Both were shot and killed by assassins who were known by
three names with 15 letters, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey
Oswald, and neither killer would make it to trial.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and Kennedy had a
secretary named Lincoln.
• They were both killed on a Friday while sitting next to their
wives, Lincoln in the Ford Theater, Kennedy in a Lincoln made
by Ford.
38. HOW COMPUTERS DECIDE FAST
MACHINE LEARNING OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HUMAN
COGNITIVE BIASES AND CAN BE MADE FAST THROUGH BIG DATA
K-Means Clustering
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Support Vector Machines Naive Bayes Affinity Propagation
Decision Trees
Nearest Neighbors
Least Angle Regression
Logistic Regression
Spectral clustering
Restricted Bolzmann Machines
39. MACHINE LEARNING MEANS
PROGRAMS THAT WRITE PROGRAMS
• A machine learning algorithm is a system that
derives a set of rules based on a set of data
• It is based on systematic observation, double-checking
and cross-validation
• There is no magic, just data – and without data
there no magic either
41. HOW PREDICTIVE APPLICATIONS WORK
COLLECT &
STORE
ANALYZE
CORRELATIONS
BUILD
DECISION
MODEL
DECIDE &
TEST OPTIMIZE
42. WHY TEST?
“Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its
eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look
over there’”
–RANDALL MUNROE
45. THE GROUND BEEF DILEMMA
Yesterday Today Tomorrow Next Delivery Next Day
In Stock Demand
46. THE GROUND BEEF DILEMMA
• Order too much and you will have to throw meat
away when it goes bad. You lose money and cows
die in vain
• Order too little and you won’t serve all your
potential customers. You lose money and
customers stay hungry.
48. CHALLENGE #2
AUTOMATE REPLENISHMENT
COLLECT
STOCK AND
SALES
PREDICT
DEMAND
TRADE OFF
COSTS
CREATE
ORDERS IN ERP
SYSTEM
OPTIMIZE &
REPEAT
49. Batch and streaming data ingestion, batch
and streaming decision delivery (with
realtime option)
Optimize Returns
Reduce risk and cost, increase profit and revenue
Trend Estimation Classification Event Prediction
Collect Data Predict Outcomes Drive Decisions
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