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How to Implement AI — Responsibly

Harvard Business

They determined that, although data engineers and data scientists typically take on most responsibility from conception to production of AI development lifecycles, non-technical leaders can play a key role in ensuring the integration of responsible AI.

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Data Quality Should Be Everyone’s Job

Harvard Business

All of us depend on data created elsewhere to do our work. In the face of errors, most people’s natural reaction is to correct such errors in the data they need — after all, when you’re dealing with a mountain of day-in, day-out demands, that seems the fastest, most efficient way to complete the task at hand.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves”, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. The above statements encapsulate the promise and possibilities that data offers. Data Proliferation. quintillion bytes of data every day , the equivalent of more than 100 gigabytes per person per year.

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To Survive, Health Care Data Providers Need to Stop Selling Data

Harvard Business

Most data-driven healthcare IT (HCIT) providers aren’t going to survive. To beat those odds, they need to evolve dramatically, and fast, to a point where they are not selling data at all. Like any number of industries, healthcare is being transformed by the explosion of low-cost data. There have been many benefits.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software.

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Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science

Harvard Business

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. First, hospital operations are in many ways like airline and airport operations and transportation services.

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