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Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.
Based on an MBA course Provost has taught at New York University over the...

"Unleash Your Business addresses the rapidly changing landscapes of digital, data, and AI, and the need for organizations to take advantage of their data. Modern enterprises understand the value of their data but struggle with where to start and how to generate actionable insights. In this book, Tabrizi provides a roadmap to help disentangle the complexity of one of the most underused assets in organizations--their data--to create tangible and lasting...

"Digital transform is hard. It is tempting to point to the "usual suspects" as the reasons for these shortfalls: cumbersome IT estates, poor data, lack of talent, among others. These issues are real, but they also tend to mask more fundamental issues that are the real culprits behind stalled transformations, including: Pursuing changes that are not economically meaningful to the business. It's good to experiment, but companies too often focus on "shiny...

"Though most organizations are placing modest bets on artificial intelligence, there is a world-class group of companies that are going all-in on the technology and radically transforming their products, processes, strategies, customer relationships, and cultures. Though these organizations represent less than 1 percent of large companies, they are all high performers in their industries. They have better business models, make better decisions, have...

"Technology advances are making tech more...human. This changes everything you thought you knew about innovation and strategy. In their groundbreaking book Human + Machine, Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine collaboration to transform their processes and their bottom lines. Now, as AI continues to rapidly impact both life and work, those companies and other...

If you're an executive, manager, or anyone interested in leveraging AI within your organization, this is your guide. You'll understand exactly what AI is, learn how to identify AI opportunities, and develop and execute a successful AI vision and strategy. Alex Castrounis, business consultant and former IndyCar engineer and race strategist, examines the value of AI and strategy that benefits both people and business. AI is exciting, powerful, and game...

"Data Science Essentials For Dummies is a quick reference on the core concepts of the exploding and in-demand data science field, which involves data collection and working on dataset cleaning, processing, and visualization. This direct and accessible resource helps you brush up on key topics and is right to the point-eliminating review material, wordy explanations, and fluff-so you get what you need, fast. Strengthen your understanding of data science...

The main goal of this book is to explain the core ideas of process mining, and to demonstrate how they can be implemented using just some basic tools that are available to any computer scientist or data scientist. It describes how to analyze event logs in order to discover the behavior of real-world business processes. The end result can often be visualized as a graph, and the book explains how to use Python and Graphviz to render these graphs intuitively....

"Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore-they're the basis of the rising decentralized internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the past decade's rules: Monopolies may be shattered, fortunes will be made and lost, and new classes of products and services will emerge. Where does your business fit in? Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will show you how today's most innovative organizations are choosing Web3,...