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Applying AI Technologies for Business Operations
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17:10In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Huzaifa Sayed, Senior Manager of Data Science at The Home Depot: What are some business operations solvable via AI? How can AI technologies help streamline, improve, or otherwise support operations? What does the future hold for leveraging AI as part of operational activities? What…
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The challenging nature of making everyone an AI expert
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23:43In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Fouad Bousetouane, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at InterspectAI: What does it mean to be an AI expert What’s the problem with allowing everyone the ability to leverage AI How can we solve for this challenge (surely we don’t want to just allow LLMs for those with PhDs) What …
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Leveraging AI to optimize energy consumption of renewable energy
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22:50In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Chelsea Lamar, VP, Global Sustainability @ AIT Worldwide Logistics: Tell us about the world of energy – and what’s considered renewable How is AI related to renewable energy? Where is AI applied to help with renewables? What are the problems we need to solve more effectively with A…
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Exploration of When and Where to Leverage GenAI in Knowledge Work
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20:51In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Brian Burns, Senior Manager of AI, Sprout Social: Talk about knowledge work – what does the term mean? Describe a few examples of how we might leverage GenAI What are the challenges when trying to incorporate AI and GenAI for knowledge work? How can we make this collaboration succe…
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AI in the Real World: Balancing Innovation & Risk in a Regulated Landscape
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25:25In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Raghu Kulkarni: • Tell me about what we mean by AI in this context? • Let’s talk about regulation.. What does that really mean? How does it limit or support organizations? • Regarding the notion of innovation, can you give some examples of how that might look in a regulated sense? …
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Back to basics: Essentials for Product Development in the Age of AI
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27:25In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Marcy Cunningham: • The goal is to get more data, solutions, and AI into the hands of our consumers… Does this present certain difficulties? • What are some of the issues associated with not meeting the prerequisites for new AI tools? • Are we trying to use AI to fill gaps? • How c…
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Andrew Simmons: What are some examples of GenAI for retail Let’s talk about the difficulties and challenges GenAI can bring How about the positive opportunities presenting from GenAI Is the juice worth the squeeze What do you see for the future of retail with GenAI Geneva Taylor, D…
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Analytics Challenges Specific to the Manufacturing Sector
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21:26In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Prateek Shrivastava: Describing some of the use cases in manufacturing. What sorts of specific challenges do manufacturing companies face? How can analytics adjust to take these issues into account? What does the future hold for advancing analytics in manufacturing? Prateek Shrivas…
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The Criticality of Mature data and AI for Accurate GenAI
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22:11In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Aparajit Agarwal, Kao Corporation: What is analytics maturity as it relates to GenAI? Discussing relationship between a solid machine learning strategy and developing GenAI capabilities. Finding the applicable use cases for GenAI given maturity levels. Advice for getting GenAI impl…
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How AI Impacts How We Develop and Grow Data Teams
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27:00In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Akhil Mahajan, Technical Director at Proctor & Gamble: What are some of the core skill of traditional data teams? How is AI modifying the way we work in data? Describe ways to upskill, re-skill, or hire data teams of the future. Akhil Mahajan, Technical Director at Proctor & Gamble…
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Bhavna Mehta , Assistant Vice President at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center: What are some examples of ways AI technology can support healthcare operations and decision making? Describe some of the challenges specific to healthcare when thinking about leveraging AI. Ho…
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Getting the Absolute Best Data Science Talent to Solve Marketing Problems
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18:46-Describe the marketing / data science dance - do we need data science for successful marketing?-What are the types of jobs for data scientists in marketing?-What are the key skills for a marketing data scientist?-What about other types of non-technical skills? Like domain knowledge or personal attributes?-How should data science talent vary based …
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What is this How this interacts with other C”suite Technical business culture What can this solve for us
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Reducing Barriers to Complex Data Science Entry by Leveraging AI
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18:08In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Hua Ai: What are the types of data science work able to get automated, managed with AI? How can AI help, what steps are reduced How does this change the necessary skill set? Are we writing ourselves out of a job? Final piece of advice for leveraging AI to reduce data science barrie…
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Defining and Adapting your Data Science Career
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25:41In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Giang Do: What is a Data Science career? Value of Experience, Exposure and Knowledge. What are the tricks to a successful career? Tips you wish you had known.
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Building Data Science and AI Capabilities to Last
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22:14In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Deepac Jose: what are some of the capabilities importance of challenging status quo breaking silos how to know you’ve won final piece of advice
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Applying a Data-Informed Approach to Influence Leaders and Business Decision-Makers
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24:03In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Ned Caron: What do we mean by data-informed? How does this differ from data-driven or other philosophies? What are the challenges and benefits for adopting data-informed decision making? What advice would you offer to someone trying to move in the data-informed direction?…
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Evolution of Data Science: Enhancing Productivity, Not Replacing You
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17:39In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Jorge Figueroa: AI Monopoly - Join or fight. Some developers are scared about AI being monopolized instead of thinking about the possibilities and opportunities new AI platforms represent in their projects. AI - A new danger to some professions or a new tool? Will use reporting as …
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Dinakar Deshmukh: what does it mean for a solution to be scalable how have we lacked in this area as an industry why it’s important to make solutions that last the future of data science products and scalability
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Successfully Leveraging AutoML to Solve Complex Problems
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21:18In this episode of TAG Data Talk, Dr. Beverly Wright discusses with Chad Harness: describe automl to the business person how do these types of tools work what are the right ways to leverage automl expectations for the future of automl tools
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Getting the Education Right: Choosing academic programs to stimulate a successful career in data
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16:27In this episode of TAG Data Talk, host Dr. Beverly Wright talks with Justin Grieshop: Describe the backgrounds and disciplines in data science and analytics How to show the importance of diversity of thought Advice for understanding the right education and how to extract value from those resources
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Building and Managing the Data Science Product Development Process
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18:42In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Patrick Halpin about Building and Managing the Data Science Product Development Process
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Evolution of Data Scientists: The Transitioning Role of Data Scientist
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23:25In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Lyndsey Padden about the Evolution of Data Scientists: The Transitioning Role of Data Scientist
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Nan Li about Dispelling the AI Hype
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Developing and delivering a quick data science project
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26:29In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Kevin Enyekwe and Chanyong Yoo about Developing and Delivering a Quick Data Science project
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Enabling an Analytics Culture through Transformative Processes
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21:47In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Stephanie Dean about Enabling an Analytics Culture through Transformative Processes
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Ken Viciana about Leading Data Scientists
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Johnny Howze on how to Power Up with Data
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Leveraging Data Science for Actionable Insights
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17:46In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Eric Friedman about Leveraging Data Science for Actionable Insights
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Connecting and Leveraging Academic Partnerships in Data Science
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31:40In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Anqi Zou about connecting and leveraging academic partnerships in data science
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Unlocking Data along the Value Chain in Manufacturing
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20:53In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Frank Borovsky about Unlocking Data along the Value Chain in Manufacturing
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Identifying the Why Why: Strategies to understand true problems and questions for data science projects
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18:45In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Selma Dogic about strategies to understand true problems and questions for data science projects
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Building and Advancing a Data Science Career
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24:43In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Christina Stathopoulos about building and advancing a data science career.
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Aligning IT data function with data science efforts
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27:03In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Scott Taylor about Aligning IT data function with data science efforts.
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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from a CTO's perspective
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19:36In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Manuj Aggarwal about Data Science and Artificial Intelligence from a CTO's perspective.
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Alex Yurchenko, SVP, Chief Data Science Officer at Black Book, about The Many Faces of Data Science.
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Enabling AI Efforts by Improving Data Governance
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23:55In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Peggy Tsai about Enabling AI Efforts by Improving Data Governance.
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Enterprise Data Literacy to Scale Analytics Solutions
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28:18In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Jerry DiMaso and Ryan Gertenbach about enterprise data literacy to scale analytics solutions.
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Making Analytics a Business as Usual Function
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29:42In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Monica Kedzierski about Making Analytics a Business as Usual Function.
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Arvind Prabhakar, Chief Technology Officer at StreamSets, about Data Ops for Dynamic Business Needs.
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Importance of Involving Analytics Stakeholders Early
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21:43In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Jason Poovey, Director of Data Science and Analytics at Greenlight Financial Technology, about the Importance of Involving Analytics Stakeholders Early.
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Advanced Analytics for Financial Functions
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18:50In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Jim Haller about advanced analytics for financial functions.
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The Lost Art of Listening for Improved Analytics
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17:03In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with LaRae Bennett, Sr. Director, Data & Analytics at Premier Research, about the lost art of listening for improving analytics.
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Leveraging Workforce Analytics for Strategic Advantage
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31:07In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with a panel of experts about leveraging workforce analytics for strategic advantage.
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Doug Laney about the stimulating data science innovation and getting beyond the process.
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The Value of Imperfection: Embracing the Realities of Model Building
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20:25In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Shelly Kunkle about the challenges and imperfections encountered during the model building process, and how to derive value despite the imperfections within the models.
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Jason Schlachter about landing a career in the AI field. Describe the AI field What are some of the roles within the AI field Skills and strategies for gaining access to a career in AI
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The Criticality of Understanding Business Context in Analytics
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18:35In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Winn Martin, Chief Data Officer at Steady about The Criticality of Understanding Business Context in Analytics.
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Encouraging Model Adoption among the Executive Suite and Beyond
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25:25In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with T. Scott Clendaniel, Lead Data Scientist at Franklin Templeton Strategic Artificial Intelligence Labs, about Encouraging Model Adoption among the Executive Suite and Beyond.
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In this episode of TAG Data Talk, we talk with Juan Gorricho, Executive Data Science Leader in Financial Services, about Data Management in a Global Marketplace.
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