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Latest Read: Decision-Driven Analytics

Decision-Driven Analytics: Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data by Bart de Langhe and Stefano Puntoni.

Decision-Driven Analytics: Leveraging Human Intelligence to Unlock the Power of Data by Bart de Langhe and Stefano Puntoni

Stefano holds a MSc in Statistics and Economics from the University of Padova and a PhD in Marketing from the London Business School. Today Stefano is a Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director, AI at Wharton.

Bart holds a MA in Psychology, from KU Leuven in Belgium and a PhD in Marketing, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Today he is Professor of Marketing at KU Leuven.

I certainly found this a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and leverage the power of AI data for competitive advantages. In a broad stroke the book shows how companies today have so much data at their fingertips, yet many executives and organizations fail to extract any true value from it.

They introduce a new framework called “decision-driven analytics”. In fact, this approach emphasizes the integration of human intelligence and judgment with data analytics to improve business outcomes. The book outlines four pillars of decision-driven analytics and identifies common pitfalls that organizations face when trying to leverage data effectively.

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Latest Read: Reskilling America

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century By Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston.

Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century by Katherine S. Newman and Hella Winston

Katherine holds holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Sociology from the University of California, San Diego and a Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Today Katherine is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of California. She was formerly the Provost of UMass Amherst and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, professor at Princeton University and Harvard University, and professor of anthropology at Columbia University.

Hella was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Johns Hopkins University, and Princeton University. Today she is pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a Senior Fellow at Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism.

The book begins with a certainly sobering assessment of the current state of American secondary education. They highlight misguided policies that have driven economic inequalities for decades.

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Latest Read: Failure to Disrupt

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich.

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education by Justin Reich

Justin holds a PhD from Harvard University’s School of Education. He began his career as a high school history teacher. Today his is an associate professor at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab and is the host of the TeachLab podcast.

This book is tackling head on the many bold promises that technology can accelerating learning and provide customized education. There are an overwhelming number of technology projects funded by Silicon Valley firms, educational think tanks, and various entrepreneurs bringing emerging educational technology to the most underserved communities.

Recall when MOOCs were claimed to be the educational technology that would revolutionize education? Justin is revealing that MOOCs and even the number of “intelligent tutor” solutions only resulted in confusing educators and bypassing students. Perhaps those funded projects should have determined how benefactors were always students from affluent zip codes. The projects never made the impact as intended.

Schools and Silicon Valley favor programs that scale up. It turns out that technology cannot by itself disrupt education or provide shortcuts past the more difficult challenge of institutional change.

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Latest Read: What To Do When Machines Do Everything

What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data by Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring.

What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data by Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring

Malcolm holds a BA in Economics from Yale University. He is the former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Paul holds a BS in journalism from the University of Florida and Doctor of Philosophy from Syracuse University. He was a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Global Managing Director of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work. Today he his Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Ascendion.

Ben holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Manchester UK. He is a former Vice President at Gartner and Vice President, Head of Thought Leadership, and Director at Cognizant Technology Solutions.

There are few books that made an immediate impact upon reading them. This is one such book and I highly recommend this to anyone working or striving to understand the role of AI that is transforming the world today.

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Latest Read: Grokking Continuous Delivery

Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson.

Grokking Continuous Delivery By Christie Wilson

Christie holds a Bachelor of Technology, Data Communication, Network Administration & Security from The British Columbia Institute of Technology. Today she is a Software Engineer at Google working on Go and Python, Specializing in distributed systems, scalable and maintainable code. She co-created Tekton, a cloud-native CI/CD platform built on Kubernetes.

Grokking Continuous Delivery teaches you the design and purpose of continuous delivery systems that you can use with any language or technology stack. I have always enjoyed reading all Grokking titles. Christie outlines in fact, the basic nuts and bolts of continuous delivery. Perfect for for developers and pipeline designers. She demonstrates the proper approaches to tackle real-world challenges regarding CD pipelines.

CD is in fact, a very well written book for software engineers seeking to understand, implement, and master CD pipelines. The book is certainly practical and is a great resource for both new users seeking to understand CD and experienced engineers.

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