This week we look at several case studies where success on the AI front was not sufficient to assure longer term business success. Our course spotlight is on:

Aug 20 – Sep 17: Introduction to Design of Experiments

Learn how to design experiments (especially costly ones) in ways that yield the most information for the least cost.

See you in class!

– Peter Bruce
Founder of The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com

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News You Need to Know

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AI Success, but Not Business Success

In their book Mining your Own Business, Jeff Deal and Gerhard Pilcher describe what I’ll call “The Case of the Climbing Churn.” A successful predictive model for identifying likely churners was deployed for a mobile phone service provider, but the end result was more, not less churn. Why? […]

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WORD OF THE WEEK – Label Spreading

A common problem in machine learning is the “rare case” situation, where the class of interest (fraud, purchase by a web visitor, death of a patient) is rare enough that a data sample may not have enough instances to generate useful predictions. One way to deal with this problem is, in essence, data fabrication: we […]

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BOOK REVIEW – Noise

Who would have thought that an entire book devoted to the bias-variance tradeoff would make it to the NY Times business best seller list? The book is […]