SOLD OUT: Big data for managers
What you'll learn, and how you can apply it
- Learn to identify potential pitfalls in projects before they start, identify and prioritize which projects a company should pursue, and translate data science insights for business professionals and decision makers
- Discover how to communicate business objectives to data professionals
- Understand the business implications of technical decisions and assess the risk-reward trade-offs of different projects
Who is this presentation for?
- You're a business professional who wants to learn about big data.
- You work with data scientists or analysts regularly.
- You manage teams or projects with a significant data component.
- You find yourself translating between data and management.
Outline
Introduction to AI and data science
- Terms and definitions: What does machine learning mean?
- Historical context and present day
- Drivers for AI and data science
- What’s so different about big data?
- “AI is eating the world.”
- Making AI practical
Algorithms and techniques
- Data formats, databases, and schemas
- Evaluating model performance and validating models
- Terminology: Regression, classification, supervised, and unsupervised
- Advanced models: Random forests, support vector machines, deep learning, and neural networks
Industry use cases
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Industrial
- Technology
AI within the organization
- Maturity levels for AI
- Evaluating good projects for AI
- Build versus buy and hire versus train
- Skills, tools, and platforms needed for AI
- Structuring data and AI initiatives within your organization: Successful and cautionary tales
Common pitfalls and fallacies in AI and data science
- AI and data science in the headlines: The good, the bad, and the ugly
- Legal and regulatory implications
- Litigation and liabilities of bad data science
- Common fallacies in data science and AI
- Lying with statistics and how to spot it
About your instructors
Tianhui Michael Li is the founder and president of the Data Incubator, a data science training and placement firm. Michael bootstrapped the company and navigated it to a successful sale to the Pragmatic Institute. Previously, he headed monetization data science at Foursquare and has worked at Google, Andreessen Horowitz, JPMorgan, and D.E. Shaw. He’s a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Wired, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Entrepreneur, VentureBeat, TechTarget, and O’Reilly. Michael was a postdoc at Cornell, a PhD at Princeton, and a Marshall Scholar in Cambridge.
Gonzalo Diaz is a data scientist in residence at the Data Incubator, where he teaches the data science fellowship and online courses; he also develops the curriculum to include the latest data science tools and technologies. Previously, he was a web developer at an NGO and a researcher at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Oxford.
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Thanks everyone for attending! It was a pleasure working with you. If you have a moment, please visit the link we shared during the course and fill out the post-course survey! Your feedback would be very much appreciated. Good luck with your big data projects!
HI Bijal,
The class is currently sold out, and we do not have a waitlist. You can contact our Conference Registration department at confreg@oreilly.com and if a spot opens up (if anyone cancels), they might be able to get you into the class.
Thank you,
Sophia
I am trying to register myself for this class. I see its sold out. Is there any possibility to include myself for this session?
Hello Yahya, laptops are not required for the workshop, although you are more than welcome to bring yours along for note-taking.
I’m looking forward to meeting you there!
Do we have to bring our labtops?