Analyzing Analysis: Bloomberg botches butt surgery analysis
This week, Bloomberg published an article claiming that "data show demand for butt implants soared during the pandemic." It's an eye-catching idea but one that we think doesn't hold up. Basically, their butt analysis is bupkis.
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Only 20% of companies get value from their AI strategy. This is what they do.
Over the past several years, companies have shown a steady increase in their AI understanding, strategy and piloting.
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The Nobel Prize winner who busted intuition explains why we all still use it
In a recent discussion with organizational psychologist Adam Grant, Kahneman reveals that he makes most of his decisions based on intuition.
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Making better decisions: new rules for prediction and planning
Prediction is at the heart of making decisions under uncertainty. AI makes prediction cheap.
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Making better decisions: calibrating confidence
One human factor can matter more than anything in a decision: overconfidence.
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Making better decisions: “which” versus “whether”
Every time you are faced with a "whether" decision, you are far more likely to make a better decision if you can make it a "which" decision instead.
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Making better decisions: taming cognitive biases
There are dozens of cognitive biases—far too many to commit to memory, let alone be aware of them in the moment.
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Making better decisions: forecasting and pre-mortems
Forecasting is integral to decision making. All decisions implicitly involve a view of the future, something that is getting progressively difficult to do with any level of certainty.
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Making better decisions: explore versus exploit
This article is one in a series of life hacks, tips and tricks for making better decisions with data.
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Making better decisions: reflection and learning
Learning requires doing. Allow for practice, failure and celebration of well-calibrated risk taking rather than unwittingly rewarding luck.
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How to stay creative in the data age
As humans rely more and more on data for decision making, it's important to value effortful thinking over intuition because AI and Big Data operate beyond the limits of human intuition. But how does creativity fare when people think slow?
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How to think about intuition in the data age
Humans co-evolved cognition and cooperation. We experience thinking that is fast, efficient and relies on previous experience as intuition—a gut feel or instinctive conclusion. Data has a role in helping us update our tacit knowledge.
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Apple Should Win Its Intensifying Battle With Facebook
This article was originally published in The Information. Facebook says Apple will change the internet as we know it. Good! The brewing battle over the soul of Silicon Valley has finally hit a breaking point. Apple, which sees individuals as its customers, is advancing iOS users’ privacy with the choice to opt in to ad … Apple Should Win Its...
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How to design a data culture in two steps
Strong cultures are designed while weak cultures are allowed to emerge which is why a data culture that works needs to be by design.
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