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The latest from Presciient on business analytics and data science for big data.What’s real and what’s hype in machine learning?
In this week’s episode of the Machine Learning Café podcast, Dr Eugene Dubossarsky spoke with Miklos Toth and Levente Szabados about his experiences in machine learning since the 1980s. Listen to hear Dr Dubossarsky’s opinions on random forests, neural nets, boosting...
Data literacy and good decision-making in business
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky recently spoke with business journalist Leon Gettler on the Talking Business podcast about the importance of data in business today. The discussion focused on how data analytics will increasingly be crucial to good decision-making, and how...
The data literacy revolution and the future of analytics
The second presentation in Dr Eugene Dubossarsky’s three-part series on the future of analytics explores of the role of data literacy as a foundational skill for business conversations. Starting with a discussion of how data scientists must understand what decisions...
The future of analytics, when it’s done right
Good decision-making is being made ever more important by globalisation, automation, AI, and other drivers of rapid change. It’s one of the few human activities that can’t be automated, though it can be aided by powerful computational tools—such as data analytics. In...
What makes a good data scientist?
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky recently appeared as a guest on the Humans of AI podcast, discussing his background in artificial intelligence before deep-diving into some of the problems and potential solutions in the data science industry. He talks about what makes a good...
The data literacy revolution
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky spoke recently at Sydney Future Shapers about the need to foster data literacy not just within the analytics function, but within whole organisations, and particuarly among senior management. His presentation describes why data literacy will soon...
An overview of the data analytics landscape
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky recently gave the opening keynote at Reinvigorating the Usual, a data analytics seminar held by the Actuaries Institute, Sydney. Watch the keynote to hear Dr Dubossarsky outline the state of data analytics today as the field works towards...
The Zen of data science at YOW! Data 2018
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky gave an updated version of his iconic presentation, “The Zen of Data Science” at YOW! Data 2018: What makes data science such a different field? Why is it such a challenge to structure, manage and capture the value of data science? This...
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky on strategic decision-making
Presciient founder Dr Eugene Dubossarsky recently spoke to Data Science Sydney on how to use data and analytics in strategic decision-making. Data, analytics methods and metrics are in short supply when it comes to the most important decisions facing an organisation,...
Data futurology podcast
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky spoke recently to Felipe of the Data Futurology podcast, talking about “data literacy, questions to ask your potential employer, his definition of actionable insights and much more”. Listen to the episode at Data Futurology →