Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science: Building Skills for an AI-Driven Enterprise: Vaughan, Daniel: 9781492060949: Amazon.com: Books

The central premise of this book is that value at the enterprise is created by making decisions, not with data or predictive technologies alone. Nonetheless, we can piggyback on the big data and AI revolutions and start making better choices in a systematic and scalable way, by transforming our companies into modern AI- and data-driven decision-making enterprises. To make better decisions, we first need to ask the right questions, forcing us to move from descriptive & predictive analyses to prescriptive courses of action. I devote the first few chapters to clarifying these concepts and explaining how to ask better business questions suitable for this type of analysis. I then delve into the anatomy of decision-making, starting with the consequences or outcomes we want to achieve, moving backward to the actions we can take, and discussing the problems and opportunities created by intervening uncertainty and causality.