Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science : Building Skills for an AI-Driven Enterprise.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sebastopol :
O'Reilly Media, Incorporated,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Preface
- Why Analytical Skills for AI?
- Use Case-Driven Approach
- What This Book Isn't
- Who This Book Is For
- What's Needed
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Using Code Examples
- O'Reilly Online Learning
- How to Contact Us
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Analytical Thinking and the AI-Driven Enterprise
- What Is AI?
- Why Current AI Won't Deliver on Its Promises
- How Did We Get Here?
- The Data Revolution
- The three Vs
- Data maturity models
- Descriptive stage
- Predictive stage
- Prescriptive stage
- A Tale of Unrealized Expectations
- Analytical Skills for the Modern AI-Driven Enterprise
- Key Takeways
- Further Reading
- 2. Intro to Analytical Thinking
- Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Questions
- When Predictive Analysis Is Powerful: The Case of Cancer Detection
- Descriptive Analysis: The Case of Customer Churn
- Describing churn
- Predicting churn
- Prescribing courses of action to reduce churn
- Business Questions and KPIs
- KPIs to Measure the Success of a Loyalty Program
- An Anatomy of a Decision: A Simple Decomposition
- An Example: Why Did You Buy This Book?
- A Primer on Causation
- Defining Correlation and Causation
- Some Difficulties in Estimating Causal Effects
- Problem 1: We can't observe counterfactuals
- Problem 2: Heterogeneity
- Problem 3: Confounders
- Problem 4: Selection effects
- A/B testing
- Uncertainty
- Uncertainty from Simplification
- Uncertainty from Heterogeneity
- Uncertainty from Social Interactions
- Uncertainty from Ignorance
- Key Takeaways
- Further Reading
- 3. Learning to Ask Good Business Questions
- From Business Objectives to Business Questions
- Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Questions
- Always Start with the Business Question and Work Backward
- Further Deconstructing the Business Questions
- Example with a Two-Sided Platform
- Learning to Ask Business Questions: Examples from Common Use Cases
- Lowering Churn
- Defining the business question
- Descriptive questions
- Predictive questions
- Prescriptive questions
- Cross-Selling: Next-Best Offer
- Defining the business question
- Descriptive questions
- Predictive questions
- Prescriptive questions
- CAPEX Optimization
- Store Locations
- Who Should I Hire?
- Delinquency Rates
- Stock or Inventory Optimization
- Store Staffing
- Key Takeaways
- Further Reading
- 4. Actions, Levers, and Decisions
- Understanding What Is Actionable
- Physical Levers
- Human Levers
- Why Do We Behave the Way We Do?
- Levers from Restrictions
- Time restrictions
- Levers That Affect Our Preferences
- Genetics
- Individual and social learning
- Social reasons: strategic effects
- Social reasons: conformity and peer effects
- Framing effects
- Loss aversion
- Levers That Change Your Expectations
- The availability and representativeness heuristics
- Revisiting Our Use Cases
- Customer Churn
- Cross-Selling
- Analytical thinking and the AI-driven enterprise
- Intro to analytical thinking
- Learning to ask good business questions
- Actions, levers, and decisions
- From actions to consequences: learning how to simplify
- Uncertainity
- Optimization
- Wrapping up.