41. • Drill-down analysis … misunderstood or
distorted
• Metrics dashboards … contradictory and
confusing
• Monthly reports … ignored after two
iterations
• In-house analyst teams … overworked
and powerless
How Data-Driven Decisions
REALLY work
C O M M U N I C AT I O N
B R E A K D O W
N
55. • Business rules are like programs – written by
non-programmers
• Business rules can be contradictory,
incomplete, and complex beyond
comprehension
• Business rules have no built-in feedback
mechanism:“It is the rule, because it is the rule”
Business rules are Programs,
just not very good ones.
59. — Daniel Kahneman
“All of us would be better
investors if we just made fewer
decisions.”
60.
61. How we are making decisions
(Like the big apes we are)
62. How we are making decisions
(Like the big apes we are)
Anchoring effect
IKEA effect
Confirmation bias
Bandwagon effect
Substitution
Availability heuristic
Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Rhyme as reason effect
Over-justification effect
Zero-risk bias
Framing effect
Illusory correlation
Sunk cost fallacy
Overconfidence
Outcome bias
Inattentional Blindness
Benjamin Franklin effect
Hindsight bias
Gambler’s fallacy
Anecdotal evidence
Negativity bias
Loss aversion
Backfire effect
63.
64.
65.
66. • Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both
presidents of the United States, elected 100 years
apart.
• Both were shot and killed by assassins who were
known by three names with 15 letters, John Wilkes
Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, and neither killer
would make it to trial.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
• They were both killed on a Friday while sitting
next to their wives, Lincoln in the Ford Theater,
Kennedy in a Lincoln made by Ford.
67. • Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were both
presidents of the United States, elected 100 years
apart.
• Both were shot and killed by assassins who were
known by three names with 15 letters, John Wilkes
Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, and neither killer
would make it to trial.
• Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy, and
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
• They were both killed on a Friday while sitting
next to their wives, Lincoln in the Ford Theater,
Kennedy in a Lincoln made by Ford.
69. K-Means Clustering
Naive Bayes
Support Vector Machines
Affinity Propagation
Least Angle Regression
Nearest Neighbors
Decision Trees
Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Spectral clustering
Restricted Bolzmann Machines
Logistic Regression
Computers making decisions
(cold, fast, cheap, rational)
70. • A machine learning algorithm is a system that
derives a set of rules based on a set of data
• It is based on systematic observation, double-
checking and cross-validation
• There is no magic, just data – and without data
there is no magic either
Machine Learning means
Programs that write Programs
74. — Randall Munroe
“Correlation doesn’t imply
causation, but it does waggle its
eyebrows suggestively and
gesture furtively while
mouthing‘look over there’”
79. The Ground Beef Dilemma
Yesterday Today Tomorrow Next Delivery Next Day
In Stock Demand
80. • Order too much and you will have to throw meat
away when it goes bad. You lose money and cows
die in vain
• Order too little and you won’t serve all your potential
customers. You lose money and customers stay
hungry.
The Ground Beef Dilemma
92. Predictive Apps in a Nutshell
Batch and streaming data ingestion, batch
and streaming delivery (with real-time option)
Reduce risk and cost » increase revenue and profit
Trend Estimation Classification Event Prediction
Optimize Returns
Collect Data Predict Results Drive Decisions
93. One Common Platform for
Predictive Applications
Your own and third-
party data, easily
integrated via API
Link
Build Machine
Learning and
application code
Build
Automatically run
and scale ML models
and applications
Run
Monitor and inspect
resource usage and
model quality
View
Your data stored in
high-performance
database as a service
Store