The document summarizes key points from a Berkeley DS Webinar on June 1, 2016 about business involvement in the data science modeling process. It notes that businesses want to be involved at all stages by posing problems, providing perspective, reviewing and critiquing results. While this can be positive by providing context, businesses may also lead analysts down unproductive paths. The document also emphasizes that data acquisition and feature generation are very important, more so than complex algorithms. It is important to find meaningful business problems and operationalize results in a timely manner to have impact.
Is Box Theory™ Silver Software Right for You?rongcarroll
Box Theory™ Silver software is a powerful tool for startup and small businesses to create growth-producing, customer-pleasing, profit-boosting business systems and processes.
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Box Theory™ Gold software is a powerful tool for creating customer-pleasing, waste-removing, profit-boosting business systems and processes. It is specifically designed for small and midsize businesses.
Is Box Theory™ Silver Software Right for You?rongcarroll
Box Theory™ Silver software is a powerful tool for startup and small businesses to create growth-producing, customer-pleasing, profit-boosting business systems and processes.
Is Box Theory™ Gold Software Right for You?rongcarroll
Box Theory™ Gold software is a powerful tool for creating customer-pleasing, waste-removing, profit-boosting business systems and processes. It is specifically designed for small and midsize businesses.
Phil Dillard, Black Ant, @PhilD0210
The objective of the Lean Startup 101 training is to introduce the concepts, terminology and approaches — and, to help organizations overcome resistance accepting the new approach so that exploration and learning can begin. This practical, interactive session will provide a solid foundation for advanced sessions, including the Lean Startup 201 & 301. This training is designed for practitioners in both the enterprise and in startups who are relatively new to the Lean Startup approach or who are seeking a quick refresher. Lean Startup 101 is a perfect way to kick off your week of Lean Startup!
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
How Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to create and manage startups and get a desired product to customer's hands faster.
Find more relevant stuff at: https://www.dtechsystems.co/resources/
SolvingDesign is principle 6 for AMMERSE. SolvingDesign explores the entire scope of a solution to problems. What are your requirements, what do you need to code?
These are the slide of my keynote presentation at the Forcit event in June 2016. It contains some quotes and take aways on collaborating with startups as part of a digital transformation.
10 Tactics for Building an Optimization CultureOptimizely
Slides from a presentation of '10 Tactics for Building an Optimization Culture' webinar, hosted by Brooks Bell and Optimizely.
Full webinar recording with audio can be found here: http://optimizely.wistia.com/medias/xf4yk47rml
https://www.optimizely.com/
http://brooksbell.com/
Experimentation, as the gold standard to measure new product initiatives, has become an indispensable component of product development cycles in the online world. The ability to automatically collect user interaction data online has given companies an unprecedented opportunity to run many experiments at the same time, allowing them to iterate rapidly, fail fast, and deliver the highest user value.
In this talk, i spoke about the approach of experimentation and how it fits into the development process of products.
http://agileimpact.id/
#AICON18
Run High Impact Experimentation with High-quality Customer DiscoveryOptimizely
Developing a robust A/B/n testing program is critical for every product organization. But there is not a one size fits all approach. Your program must be tailored to your business and audience to be successful. Join Oji Udezue, VP of Product at Calendly, who will share how to craft high-impact customer insights and product experiments, tailored for your company. Oji will draw insights from 20+ years of Product Management at companies like Microsoft and Atlassian and discuss the importance of using qualitative methods to help develop smarter hypotheses with the right tools and practices for your organization.
In this session you will learn:
- Why a strong experimentation culture is important for your product organization
- Proven ways to execute high-impact A/B/n tests with high-quality customer discovery
- The importance of conducting interviews with successful and unsuccessful customers and how to see through your customer’s eyes with live watching techniques
Phil Dillard, Black Ant, @PhilD0210
The objective of the Lean Startup 101 training is to introduce the concepts, terminology and approaches — and, to help organizations overcome resistance accepting the new approach so that exploration and learning can begin. This practical, interactive session will provide a solid foundation for advanced sessions, including the Lean Startup 201 & 301. This training is designed for practitioners in both the enterprise and in startups who are relatively new to the Lean Startup approach or who are seeking a quick refresher. Lean Startup 101 is a perfect way to kick off your week of Lean Startup!
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
How Lean Startup provides a scientific approach to create and manage startups and get a desired product to customer's hands faster.
Find more relevant stuff at: https://www.dtechsystems.co/resources/
SolvingDesign is principle 6 for AMMERSE. SolvingDesign explores the entire scope of a solution to problems. What are your requirements, what do you need to code?
These are the slide of my keynote presentation at the Forcit event in June 2016. It contains some quotes and take aways on collaborating with startups as part of a digital transformation.
10 Tactics for Building an Optimization CultureOptimizely
Slides from a presentation of '10 Tactics for Building an Optimization Culture' webinar, hosted by Brooks Bell and Optimizely.
Full webinar recording with audio can be found here: http://optimizely.wistia.com/medias/xf4yk47rml
https://www.optimizely.com/
http://brooksbell.com/
Experimentation, as the gold standard to measure new product initiatives, has become an indispensable component of product development cycles in the online world. The ability to automatically collect user interaction data online has given companies an unprecedented opportunity to run many experiments at the same time, allowing them to iterate rapidly, fail fast, and deliver the highest user value.
In this talk, i spoke about the approach of experimentation and how it fits into the development process of products.
http://agileimpact.id/
#AICON18
Run High Impact Experimentation with High-quality Customer DiscoveryOptimizely
Developing a robust A/B/n testing program is critical for every product organization. But there is not a one size fits all approach. Your program must be tailored to your business and audience to be successful. Join Oji Udezue, VP of Product at Calendly, who will share how to craft high-impact customer insights and product experiments, tailored for your company. Oji will draw insights from 20+ years of Product Management at companies like Microsoft and Atlassian and discuss the importance of using qualitative methods to help develop smarter hypotheses with the right tools and practices for your organization.
In this session you will learn:
- Why a strong experimentation culture is important for your product organization
- Proven ways to execute high-impact A/B/n tests with high-quality customer discovery
- The importance of conducting interviews with successful and unsuccessful customers and how to see through your customer’s eyes with live watching techniques
The art of problem solving --> ensure you right the right business requiremen...Chris Lamoureux
This presentation was initially developed a couple of years ago and presented to the leadership team of a business banking area in a Global Financial Institution. It's focus was to give the practitioner some philosophical guidance on thinking through problems in the context of writing better business requirements. The goal here was to foster thinking about what problem you are solving for first before jumping into writing business requirements for project related activities
Zero to 100 - Part 6: Experiences putting Theory into PracticeDavid Skok
Zero to 100 is a learning program from David Skok. It is a detailed instruction manual for how to take your startup from zero to $100m, with a particular focus on the area of building a go-to-market machine. So many of today’s founders come from a product or technical background, and have never been involved with sales and marketing. Right after starting their venture, they are hit with the huge problem of how to build their go-to-market organization and processes. It breaks the journey down into 9 steps, and explains why it is crucial not to skip steps in this journey in the rush to get ahead. The major emphasis of the course focuses on building a repeatable, scalable and profitable growth machine. Once you have that in place, you are ready to hit the gas and scale like crazy.
To see videos of the presentations, click here: https://www.forentrepreneurs.com/matrix-growth-academy-zero-to-100-videos/
The fundamental problem of a Product Manager is identifying what to build and knowing when to build it. In this session, Joshua will talk about how to build the structure that allows you to identify what product to build, how to objectively justify these product priorities based on business realities, and how to communicate these priorities to stakeholders within your organization.
Aubrey Smith, Sparked Advisory
In this training, we will build on the foundation established in Lean Startup 101 and 201 by delving into examples and cases of the Lean Startup concepts in action. Attendees of Lean Startup 301 will be exposed to cutting edge work from thought leaders and experts using Lean Startup in practice today — at startups and within the enterprise. Participation in this session is essential: You will be asked to help design an MVP and experiment to test critical Leap of Faith Assumption(s) in groups and will be encourage to share experiences. The session is designed to allow attendees to stretch their skills and to push one-another to ‘learn by doing’. The session will also include:
Sample cases and live interviews with practitioners highlighting the application of core concepts;
Exercises designed to bring the concepts to life and challenge participants to deepen their skills;
Discussion of advanced topics such organizational culture and governance as well as industry-specific concepts such as using Lean Startup in heavily regulated markets.
Thanks to Lean Startup Co.’s law firm, Orrick, for being the sponsor for this track.
Data and analytic strategies for developing ethical itHyoun Park
Suggested audience: CIO, Enterprise Architects, Data Managers, Analytics Managers, Data Scientists
IT is broken. Bad data assumptions, legacy technology, poor business decisions, and weak IT management have changed IT from a superstar to a second-rate department that struggles to maintain its seat at the CEO's table.
With AI, personal data, & business ethics all in ascendence, the need for ethical IT policies has never been greater. Otherwise, companies risk building services and products that fall short of the ethics and trust that they have been given by employees.
In this webinar, Amalgam Insights explores how current data, BI, analytics, and machine learning technologies threaten ethical IT and provides guidance based on other rules-based frameworks that derive business outcomes, such as the law and corporate legislation.
Product Management in the Era of Data ScienceMandar Parikh
My slide-deck from a webinar on the same topic for the Institute of Product Leadership, April 4th, 2017
What does it take to build killer products in the “AI-first” era? What makes for a great Data Science-driven product and how do great Product Managers leverage Data Science to drive value for customers? Find out how to avoid the pitfalls of hype-chasing Data Science tactics. Learn how to work with Data Science and Engineering to build a compelling product and solve real problems.
Mandar takes a practitioner’s approach to present his recipe for success for building Data Science-driven products that drive enduring value for customers.
Achieving Business Agility: Change Starts HereJoshua A. Jack
Oftentimes organizations fall into the trap of thinking that change, such as agility, must start in specific areas. But not all agile adoptions/transformations have to start in IT. In this seminar, we will discuss agile adoption/transformation and its starting points in three different areas inside the organization:
Product Portfolio – how we identify what work needs to happen and when
Product Ideation – how agility can and should change the way we look at new products and their requirements
HR – how we start to level up our current and future team members to be able to handle agility
Operationalizing Data Science using Cloud FoundryAlpine Data
This presentations walks through how the joint solution between Alpine’s Chorus Platform and Pivotal's Cloud Foundry closes the gap between data science insights and business value
In this presentation we compare the performance of Spark implementations of important ML algorithms with optimized single-node implementations, and highlight the significant improvements that can be achieved.
Levelwise PageRank with Loop-Based Dead End Handling Strategy : SHORT REPORT ...Subhajit Sahu
Abstract — Levelwise PageRank is an alternative method of PageRank computation which decomposes the input graph into a directed acyclic block-graph of strongly connected components, and processes them in topological order, one level at a time. This enables calculation for ranks in a distributed fashion without per-iteration communication, unlike the standard method where all vertices are processed in each iteration. It however comes with a precondition of the absence of dead ends in the input graph. Here, the native non-distributed performance of Levelwise PageRank was compared against Monolithic PageRank on a CPU as well as a GPU. To ensure a fair comparison, Monolithic PageRank was also performed on a graph where vertices were split by components. Results indicate that Levelwise PageRank is about as fast as Monolithic PageRank on the CPU, but quite a bit slower on the GPU. Slowdown on the GPU is likely caused by a large submission of small workloads, and expected to be non-issue when the computation is performed on massive graphs.
Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation - Final Version - 5.23...John Andrews
SlideShare Description for "Chatty Kathy - UNC Bootcamp Final Project Presentation"
Title: Chatty Kathy: Enhancing Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Description:
Discover how Chatty Kathy, an innovative project developed at the UNC Bootcamp, aims to tackle the challenge of low physical activity among older adults. Our AI-driven solution uses peer interaction to boost and sustain exercise levels, significantly improving health outcomes. This presentation covers our problem statement, the rationale behind Chatty Kathy, synthetic data and persona creation, model performance metrics, a visual demonstration of the project, and potential future developments. Join us for an insightful Q&A session to explore the potential of this groundbreaking project.
Project Team: Jay Requarth, Jana Avery, John Andrews, Dr. Dick Davis II, Nee Buntoum, Nam Yeongjin & Mat Nicholas
Explore our comprehensive data analysis project presentation on predicting product ad campaign performance. Learn how data-driven insights can optimize your marketing strategies and enhance campaign effectiveness. Perfect for professionals and students looking to understand the power of data analysis in advertising. for more details visit: https://bostoninstituteofanalytics.org/data-science-and-artificial-intelligence/
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
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Empowering the Data Analytics Ecosystem: A Laser Focus on Value
The data analytics ecosystem thrives when every component functions at its peak, unlocking the true potential of data. Here's a laser focus on key areas for an empowered ecosystem:
1. Democratize Access, Not Data:
Granular Access Controls: Provide users with self-service tools tailored to their specific needs, preventing data overload and misuse.
Data Catalogs: Implement robust data catalogs for easy discovery and understanding of available data sources.
2. Foster Collaboration with Clear Roles:
Data Mesh Architecture: Break down data silos by creating a distributed data ownership model with clear ownership and responsibilities.
Collaborative Workspaces: Utilize interactive platforms where data scientists, analysts, and domain experts can work seamlessly together.
3. Leverage Advanced Analytics Strategically:
AI-powered Automation: Automate repetitive tasks like data cleaning and feature engineering, freeing up data talent for higher-level analysis.
Right-Tool Selection: Strategically choose the most effective advanced analytics techniques (e.g., AI, ML) based on specific business problems.
4. Prioritize Data Quality with Automation:
Automated Data Validation: Implement automated data quality checks to identify and rectify errors at the source, minimizing downstream issues.
Data Lineage Tracking: Track the flow of data throughout the ecosystem, ensuring transparency and facilitating root cause analysis for errors.
5. Cultivate a Data-Driven Mindset:
Metrics-Driven Performance Management: Align KPIs and performance metrics with data-driven insights to ensure actionable decision making.
Data Storytelling Workshops: Equip stakeholders with the skills to translate complex data findings into compelling narratives that drive action.
Benefits of a Precise Ecosystem:
Sharpened Focus: Precise access and clear roles ensure everyone works with the most relevant data, maximizing efficiency.
Actionable Insights: Strategic analytics and automated quality checks lead to more reliable and actionable data insights.
Continuous Improvement: Data-driven performance management fosters a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
Sustainable Growth: Empowered by data, organizations can make informed decisions to drive sustainable growth and innovation.
By focusing on these precise actions, organizations can create an empowered data analytics ecosystem that delivers real value by driving data-driven decisions and maximizing the return on their data investment.
2. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL2
How business gets involved in the modeling
process (challenges involved in)
• CPG (consumer packaged goods)
• One of the first things I learned in the dS biz is that the biz problem is not far from the ds biz
wants to be invovled at all stages
– They want to pose problem
– Give perspective on solutions
– Review what DS is finding,
– Refine, the process and make suggestions
– Understand and critique the results
– Porous layer between biz and ds teams
• Can be a very positive thing: ideas on what should be included, validate if the results are
meaningful, biz context needed to build good models
• Downside: biz will often lead you down paths that are not productive or defensible + anecdotes!
• Having biz involved forces you to have models that are explanatory and not just predictive this
means they are meaningful
• If you just focus on prediction this will lead to overfit,
3. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL3
It’s all about the data!
• Morgan Stanley we sell AA but many ppl do basic stuff with data
• Means that you don’t’ spend that much time doing algo stuff, mostly about
feature generation and data prep
• In SV w/ internet companies the data science is throw all the data at an
algorithm
• If you can be more intelligent with feature gen, you will get better
performance
• nevertheless, the more data you can get, the better
• So is acquisition of data very important and part of the process (overlooked)
• Traditional world: what data to use, which transforms VERSUS throwing
data in an algorithm and hoping for the best
– This is overlooked
4. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL4
It’s not about the algorithm!
• Evicore example
• In a very short period of time, just using the straightforward approach, we
found a way to save 10s of millions of dollars
• By contrast, company like Vmware they are obsessed with applying
advanced algorithms on small amounts of data, not rich data, and not
making impact on the biz
• What is more important than the algo, is finding an important biz problem
and getting to a solution in a meaningful time period
• Also what is more important is operationalizing analytics result
• You can have a perfect model, not in production is just an insight can die
on the vine
• Simple model that can give you lift in customer acquisition and impact on
fraud that’s immediate
5. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL5
How to become a data scientist!
• Personal experience and what you see during hiring
• Recruiting stuff
• Plug for alpine!
• Internships are the most important! Than courses and
stuffz
• All about connections
• Meetups