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Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI are Transforming the Industry (Wiley and SAS Business Series)
by Laura B. MadsenHealthcare is changing, and data is the catalyst Data is taking over in a powerful way, and it's revolutionizing the healthcare industry. You have more data available than ever before, and applying the right analytics can spur growth. Benefits extend to patients, providers, and board members, and the technology can make centralized patient management a reality. Despite the potential for growth, many in the industry and government are questioning the value of data in health care, wondering if it's worth the investment. Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI are Transforming the Industry tackles the issue and proves why BI is not only worth it, but necessary for industry advancement. Healthcare BI guru Laura Madsen challenges the notion that data have little value in healthcare, and shows how BI can ease regulatory reporting pressures and streamline the entire system as it evolves. Madsen illustrates how a data-driven organization is created, and how it can transform the industry. Learn why BI is a boon to providers Create powerful infographics to communicate data more effectively Find out how Big Data has transformed other industries, and how it applies to healthcare Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI are Transforming the Industry provides tables, checklists, and forms that allow you to take immediate action in implementing BI in your organization. You can't afford to be behind the curve. The industry is moving on, with or without you. Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI are Transforming the Industry is your guide to utilizing data to advance your operation in an industry where data-fueled growth will be the new norm.
Data-Driven HR: How to Use Analytics and Metrics to Drive Performance
by Bernard MarrTraditionally seen as a purely people function unconcerned with numbers, HR is now uniquely placed to use company data to drive performance, both of the people in the organization and the organization as a whole. Data-Driven HR is a practical guide which enables HR professionals to leverage the value of the vast amount of data available at their fingertips. Covering how to identify the most useful sources of data, collect information in a transparent way that is in line with data protection requirements and turn this data into tangible insights, this book marks a turning point for the HR profession. Covering all the key elements of HR including recruitment, employee engagement, performance management, wellbeing and training, Data-Driven HR examines the ways data can contribute to organizational success by, among other things, optimizing processes, driving performance and improving HR decision making. Packed with case studies and real-life examples, this is essential reading for all HR professionals looking to make a measurable difference in their organizations.
Data-Driven HR: How to Use AI, Analytics and Data to Drive Performance
by Bernard MarrHow can HR professionals utilize and leverage their organization's data effectively, with the use of AI, for more talent attraction, better employee engagement and higher talent retention to ultimately drive performance?AI is now an integral part of being data-driven. With this updated edition of Data-Driven HR, practitioners can unlock business potential and success through data and analytics. Covering topics such as recruitment, employee engagement, performance management, wellbeing and training, HR practitioners can benefit from knowing how to really be data-driven through the use of data and AI. HR teams will learn how to identify business goals, scrutinize useful sources of data and gain rich and diverse insights from their vast amounts of data. This book brings guidance on how to manage challenges that come with data and AI, as well as how to responsibly and transparently use data to improve decision making. It also includes predictive analytics and how to place warning systems into databases for any potential workforce issues. Packed with practical advice, key takeaways and real-life examples, this is essential reading for all HR professionals looking to make a measurable difference in their organizations.
Data-Driven Innovation: Why the Data-Driven Model Will Be Key to Future Success
by Michael Moesgaard Andersen Torben PedersenToday, innovation does not just occur in large and incumbent R&D organizations. Instead, it often emerges from the start-up community. In the new innovation economy, the key is to quickly find pieces of innovation, some of which may already be developed. Therefore, there is the need for more advanced means of searching and identifying innovation wherever it may occurs. We point to the importance of data-driven innovation based on digital platforms, as their footprints are growing rapidly and in sync with the shift from analogue to digital innovation workflows. This book offers companies insights on paths to business success and tools that will help them find the right route through the various options when it comes to the digital platforms where innovations may be discovered and from which value may be appropriated. The world hungers for growth and one of the most important vehicles for growth is innovation. In light of the new digital platforms from which data-driven innovation can be extracted, major parts of analogue workflows will be substituted with digital workflows. Data-driven innovation and digital innovation workflows are here to stay. Are you?
Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries (Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries)
by Melissa Terras Vikki Jones Nicola Osborne Chris SpeedThe creative industries – the place where art, business, and technology meet in economic activity – have been hugely affected by the relatively recent digitalisation (and often monetisation) of work, home, relationships, and leisure. Such trends were accelerated by the global COVID-19 pandemic. This edited collection examines how the creative industries can be supported to make best use of opportunities in digital technology and data-driven innovation.Since digital markets and platforms are now essential for revenue generation and audience engagement, there is a vital need for improved data and digital skills in the creative and cultural sectors. Taking a necessarily global perspective, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of data-driven approaches to creativity in different contexts across the arts, cultural, and heritage sectors. Chapters reach beyond the platforms and approaches provided by the technology sector to delve into the collaborative work that supports innovation around the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral issues that emerge where data infrastructures and approaches meet creativity.A novel intervention that uniquely centres the role of data in the theory and practice of creative industries’ innovation, this book is valuable reading for those researching and studying the creative economy as well for those who drive investment for the creative industries in a digitalised society.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
The Data Driven Leader: A Powerful Approach to Delivering Measurable Business Impact Through People Analytics
by Jenny Dearborn David SwansonData is your most valuable leadership asset—here's how to use it The Data Driven Leader presents a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics. This engaging book shows you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs. opinions, identify root causes behind your company’s thorniest problems and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy. Realistic and actionable, this book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Each chapter features insightful commentary and practical notes on the points the story raises, guiding you to put HR analytics into action in your organization. HR and other leaders cannot afford to overlook the power and competitive advantages of data-driven decision-making and strategies. This book reflects the growing trend of CEOs choosing analytics-minded business leaders to head HR, at a time when workplaces everywhere face game-changing forces including automation, robotics and artificial intelligence. It is urgent that human resources leaders embrace analytics, not only to remain professionally relevant but also to help their organizations successfully navigate this digital transformation. HR professionals can and must: Understand essential data science principles and corporate analytics models Identify and execute effective data analytics initiatives Boost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matter Shape an analytics-centric culture that generates data driven leaders Most organizations capture and report data, but data is useless without analysis that leads to action. The Data Driven Leader shows you how to use this tremendous asset to lead your organization higher.
Data-driven Manufacturing: The Kutesmart System
by Nancy Hua Dai Willy ShihThe data-driven manufacturing system at this Chinese bespoke mens' suit manufacturer illustrates the use of information technology to support mass customization in a largely manual production environment. It contrasts sharply with some of the Industrie 4.0 automation-heavy approaches taken in some Western companies. Thus the case seeks to unpack the essence of a data-driven mass customization approach that is more suited to small and medium enterprises.
Data-driven Marketing: Insights aus Wissenschaft und Praxis
by Silvia Boßow-Thies Christina Hofmann-Stölting Heike JochimsState-of-the-art Wissen zum Data-driven Marketing aus Forschung und PraxisFokussiert auf die entscheidenden Aspekte für ein erfolgreiches datengetriebenes MarketingAutoren sind Top-Experten aus der Praxis und der WissenschaftDieses Buch adressiert die entscheidenden Aspekte für ein erfolgreiches, datengetriebenes Marketing: Datenqualität, Datenanalyse, kreative, aber datenschutzkonforme und ethisch vertretbare Datennutzung. Die Herausgeberinnen haben dazu das aktuelle Know-how aus Wissenschaft und Praxis für die strategische und operative Marketingarbeit zusammengetragen. So ist ein wertvoller Impulsgeber und Leitfaden für Marketing-Professionals entstanden, die Ihre Marketingarbeit konsequent datenzentriert und kundenindividuell gestalten wollen. Dabei bleiben auch spezielle Aspekte wie eine visuelle Präsentation von Datenanalyse, der Einfluss der Tonalität einer Website auf die Werbewirksamkeit von Display Advertising und Prinzipien des digitalen Vertrauensaufbaus beim Einsatz von digitalen Kanälen nicht außen vor.Aus dem InhaltStrategischer Einsatz von Daten im Marketing Datenmanagement als Grundlage für MarketingentscheidungenSmarte Insights fürs Marketing (psychografisches Targeting, Programmatic Advertising, Uplift von Werbemaßnahmen, A/B-Testing)Data-driven Marketing in der realen Welt (Geointelligenz Im Outernet, digitale Komponenten bei Messen, Privacy Concerns in the Carsharing Economy)Datenschutz und die ethischen Grenzen der Datennutzung im Data-driven Marketing Mit Beiträgen von Prof. Dr. Silvia Boßow-Thies +++ Prof. Dr. Annette Corves +++ Prof. Dr. Nicole Fabisch +++ Prof. Dr. Lars-Gunnar Frahm +++ Dr. Björn Goerke +++ Prof. Dr. Goetz Greve +++ Prof. Dr. Susanne Hensel-Börner +++ Prof. Dr. Christina Hofmann-Stölting +++ Prof. Dr. Gregor Hopf +++ Luise Jacobs +++ Prof. Dr. Heike Jochims +++ Dr. Gwen Kaufmann +++ Carsten Köster +++ Terence Lutz +++ Prof. Dr. Doreén Pick +++ Dr. Dennis Proppe +++ Mareike Scheibe +++ Prof. Dr. Eva Schön +++ Prof. Dr. Manuel Stegemann +++ Prof. Dr. Thorsten Suwelack +++ Prof. Dr. Kai-Marcus Thäsler +++ Christian Westerkamp +++ Dr. Heike M. Wolters
Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone In Marketing Should Know
by Mark JefferyNAMED BEST MARKETING BOOK OF 2011 BY THE AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATIONHow organizations can deliver significant performance gains through strategic investment in marketingIn the new era of tight marketing budgets, no organization can continue to spend on marketing without knowing what's working and what's wasted. Data-driven marketing improves efficiency and effectiveness of marketing expenditures across the spectrum of marketing activities from branding and awareness, trail and loyalty, to new product launch and Internet marketing. Based on new research from the Kellogg School of Management, this book is a clear and convincing guide to using a more rigorous, data-driven strategic approach to deliver significant performance gains from your marketing.Explains how to use data-driven marketing to deliver return on marketing investment (ROMI) in any organizationIn-depth discussion of the fifteen key metrics every marketer should knowBased on original research from America's leading marketing business school, complemented by experience teaching ROMI to executives at Microsoft, DuPont, Nisan, Philips, Sony and many other firmsUses data from a rigorous survey on strategic marketing performance management of 252 Fortune 1000 firms, capturing $53 billion of annual marketing spendingIn-depth examples of how to apply the principles in small and large organizationsFree downloadable ROMI templates for all examples given in the bookWith every department under the microscope looking for results, those who properly use data to optimize their marketing are going to come out on top every time.
Data Driven Marketing For Dummies
by David SemmelrothEmbrace data and use it to sell and market your productsData is everywhere and it keeps growing and accumulating. Companies need to embrace big data and make it work harder to help them sell and market their products. Successful data analysis can help marketing professionals spot sales trends, develop smarter marketing campaigns, and accurately predict customer loyalty. Data Driven Marketing For Dummies helps companies use all the data at their disposal to make current customers more satisfied, reach new customers, and sell to their most important customer segments more efficiently.Identifying the common characteristics of customers who buy the same products from your company (or who might be likely to leave you)Tips on using data to predict customer purchasing behavior based on past performanceUsing customer data and marketing analytics to predict when customers will purchase certain itemsInformation on how data collected can help with merchandise planningBreaking down customers into segments for easier market targetingBuilding a 360 degree view of a customer baseData Driven Marketing For Dummies assists marketing professionals at all levels of business in accelerating sales through analytical insights.
Data-Driven Marketing und der Erfolgsfaktor Mensch: Schlüsselfaktoren und Kernkompetenzen für das Marketing der Zukunft
by Lutz KlausDaten, Daten, Daten – und was ist mit Menschen? Bei der Digitalisierung von Prozessen und Geschäftsmodellen werden datengetriebene Ansätze und Technologien immer bedeutender. Doch der entscheidende Faktor für den Geschäftserfolg ist der Mensch, der die Daten nutzt und Prozesse mit Leben füllt. Dieses kompakte Buch richtet sich an Marketingprofis, Verantwortliche für Digitalisierung, Personalleiter sowie an alle, die datengetriebene, analytische Ansätze als Erfolgsvoraussetzung sehen und die Zukunft in der digitalen Arbeitswelt verantwortlich gestalten wollen. Der Autor stellt einen Bezugsrahmen mit sieben Punkten vor, mit dem es gelingt, sich und andere auf die Zukunft in der von Technologie geprägten Welt vorzubereiten. Anhand konkreter Beispiele wird deutlich, warum analytisches Denken, Neugier und Integration zentrale Fähigkeiten im Marketing sind und an welchen Stellen die Agilität gesteigert werden muss. Der Leser profitiert von anwendbarem Wissen, handfesten Tipps und Hinweisen zur Umsetzung in der Praxis.
The Data-driven Organization: Using Data for the Success of Your Company (Business Guides on the Go)
by Jonas RashediData has become an indispensable success factor for every company. However, the road towards a data-driven organization is paved with numerous challenges. This book presents a process model for the path to a data-driven company and provides recommendations for the design of all relevant fields of action: Which structures need to be created? Which systems and processes have proven beneficial? How can the quality of the data be ensured and what requirements exist for a data-driven organization in the areas of governance and communication? And last but not least: How can employees be brought along on the journey and what implications does the data-driven organization have for our corporate culture? The book presents an orientation and action framework for the strategic and operational design of a data-driven organization and is valuable for managers who are involved in data management in companies and organizations.
Data-driven Organization Design
by Rupert MorrisonData is changing the nature of competition. Making sense of it is tough. Taking advantage of it is tougher. There is a business opportunity for organizations to use data and analytics to transform business performance. Organizations are by their nature complex. They are a constantly evolving system made up of objectives, processes designed to meet those objectives, people with skills and behaviours to do the work required, and all of this organised in a governance structure. It is dynamic, fluid and constantly moving over time. Using data and analytics you can connect all the elements of the system to design an environment for people to perform; an organization which has the right people, in the right place, doing the right things, at the right time. Only when everyone performs to their potential, do organizations have a hope of getting and sustaining a competitive edge. Data-driven Organization Design provides a practical framework for HR and Organization design practitioners to build a baseline of data, set objectives, carry out fixed and dynamic process design, map competencies, and right-size the organization. It shows how to collect the right data, present it meaningfully and ask the right questions of it. Whether looking to implement a long term transformation, large redesign, or a one-off small scale project, this book will show you how to make the most of your organizational data and analytics to drive business performance.
Data-Driven Organization Design: Delivering Perpetual Performance Gains Through the Organizational System
by Rupert MorrisonUnderstand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design.Using data and analytics is a key opportunity for businesses to transform performance and achieve success. With a data-driven approach, all the elements of the organizational system can be connected to design an environment in which people can excel and attain competitive advantage. Data-Driven Organization Design provides a practical framework for HR and organization design practitioners to build a baseline of data, set objectives, carry out fixed and dynamic process design, map competencies, and right-size the organization. It shows how to collect the right data, present it meaningfully and ask the most relevant questions of it to help complex, fluid organizations constantly evolve and meet moving objectives. This updated second edition contains new material on organizational planning and analysis, role design and job architecture, position management lifecycle and delta reporting. Alongside this, new case studies and examples will show how these approaches have been applied in practice. Whether planning a long-term transformation, a large redesign or an individual small project, Data-Driven Organization Design will demonstrate how to make the most of your organizational data and analytics to drive business performance.
Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
by Zontee HouMake your marketing truly resonate by personalizing every message, powered by data, research and behavioral economics. To break through the noise, marketers today need to be hyper-relevant to their customers. To do that takes data and a deep understanding of your audience. Data-Driven Personalization breaks down the best ways to reach new customers and better engage your best customers. By combining principles of persuasion, behavioral economics and industry research, this book provides readers with an actionable blueprint for how to implement a customer-centric approach to marketing that will drive results. The book is broken into six parts that detail everything from what data is most valuable for personalization to how to build a data-driven marketing team that's prepared for the next five years and beyond. Each chapter includes actionable insights to guide marketers as they implement a data-driven personalization approach to their strategy. The chapters also focus on hands-on tactics like identifying messages that will move the needle with customers, how to generate seamless omnichannel experiences and how to balance personalization with data privacy. The book features case studies from top brands, including FreshDirect, Target, Adobe, Cisco and Spotify.
Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design
by Nuno Crato Paolo ParuoloIn the light of better and more detailed administrative databases, this open access book provides statistical tools for evaluating the effects of public policies advocated by governments and public institutions. Experts from academia, national statistics offices and various research centers present modern econometric methods for an efficient data-driven policy evaluation and monitoring, assess the causal effects of policy measures and report on best practices of successful data management and usage. Topics include data confidentiality, data linkage, and national practices in policy areas such as public health, education and employment. It offers scholars as well as practitioners from public administrations, consultancy firms and nongovernmental organizations insights into counterfactual impact evaluation methods and the potential of data-based policy and program evaluation.
Data-Driven Prediction for Industrial Processes and Their Applications (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Jun Zhao Wei Wang Chunyang ShengThis book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies. Related case studies, especially on energy systems in the steel industry are also addressed and analyzed. The case studies in this volume are entirely rooted in both classical data-driven prediction problems and industrial practice requirements. Detailed figures and tables demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of the methods addressed, and the classifications of the addressed prediction problems come from practical industrial demands, rather than from academic categories. As such, readers will learn the corresponding approaches for resolving their industrial technical problems. Although the contents of this book and its case studies come from the steel industry, these techniques can be also used for other process industries. This book appeals to students, researchers, and professionals within the machine learning and data analysis and mining communities.
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis: 8th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium, SIMPDA 2018, Seville, Spain, December 13–14, 2018, and 9th International Symposium, SIMPDA 2019, Bled, Slovenia, September 8, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #379)
by Paolo Ceravolo Maurice Van Keulen María Teresa Gómez-LópezThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th and 9th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2018, held in Seville, Spain, on December 13–14, 2018, and SIMPDA 2019, held in Bled, Slovenia, on September 8, 2019. From 16 submissions received for SIMPDA 2018 and 9 submissions received for SIMPDA 2019, 3 papers each were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation in this volume. They cover theoretical issues related to process representation, discovery, and analysis or provide practical and operational examples of their application.
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis: 7th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium, SIMPDA 2017, Neuchatel, Switzerland, December 6-8, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #340)
by Paolo Ceravolo Maurice Van Keulen Kilian StoffelThis book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 7th IFIP WG 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis, SIMPDA 2017, held in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in December 2017. The 6 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. They cover theoretical issues related to process representation, discovery, and analysis or provide practical and operational examples of their application.
The Data-Driven Project Manager: A Statistical Battle Against Project Obstacles
by Mario VanhouckeDiscover solutions to common obstacles faced by project managers. Written as a business novel, the book is highly interactive, allowing readers to participate and consider options at each stage of a project. The book is based on years of experience, both through the author's research projects as well as his teaching lectures at business schools.The book tells the story of Emily Reed and her colleagues who are in charge of the management of a new tennis stadium project. The CEO of the company, Jacob Mitchell, is planning to install a new data-driven project management methodology as a decision support tool for all upcoming projects. He challenges Emily and her team to start a journey in exploring project data to fight against unexpected project obstacles.Data-driven project management is known in the academic literature as “dynamic scheduling” or “integrated project management and control.” It is a project management methodology to plan, monitor, and control projects in progress in order to deliver them on time and within budget to the client. Its main focus is on the integration of three crucial aspects, as follows:Baseline Scheduling: Plan the project activities to create a project timetable with time and budget restrictions. Determine start and finish times of each project activity within the activity network and resource constraints. Know the expected timing of the work to be done as well as an expected impact on the project’s time and budget objectives. Schedule Risk Analysis: Analyze the risk of the baseline schedule and its impact on the project’s time and budget. Use Monte Carlo simulations to assess the risk of the baseline schedule and to forecast the impact of time and budget deviations on the project objectives. Project Control: Measure and analyze the project’s performance data and take actions to bring the project on track. Monitor deviations from the expected project progress and control performance in order to facilitate the decision-making process in case corrective actions are needed to bring projects back on track. Both traditional Earned Value Management (EVM) and the novel Earned Schedule (ES) methods are used.What You'll LearnImplement a data-driven project management methodology (also known as "dynamic scheduling") which allows project managers to plan, monitor, and control projects while delivering them on time and within budgetStudy different project management tools and techniques, such as PERT/CPM, schedule risk analysis (SRA), resource buffering, and earned value management (EVM)Understand the three aspects of dynamic scheduling: baseline scheduling, schedule risk analysis, and project controlWho This Book Is ForProject managers looking to learn data-driven project management (or "dynamic scheduling") via a novel, demonstrating real-time simulations of how project managers can solve common project obstacles
Data-Driven Remaining Useful Life Prognosis Techniques: Stochastic Models, Methods and Applications (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)
by Xiao-Sheng Si Zheng-Xin Zhang Chang-Hua HuThis book introduces data-driven remaining useful life prognosis techniques, and shows how to utilize the condition monitoring data to predict the remaining useful life of stochastic degrading systems and to schedule maintenance and logistics plans. It is also the first book that describes the basic data-driven remaining useful life prognosis theory systematically and in detail. The emphasis of the book is on the stochastic models, methods and applications employed in remaining useful life prognosis. It includes a wealth of degradation monitoring experiment data, practical prognosis methods for remaining useful life in various cases, and a series of applications incorporated into prognostic information in decision-making, such as maintenance-related decisions and ordering spare parts. It also highlights the latest advances in data-driven remaining useful life prognosis techniques, especially in the contexts of adaptive prognosis for linear stochastic degrading systems, nonlinear degradation modeling based prognosis, residual storage life prognosis, and prognostic information-based decision-making.
Data-driven Retailing: A Non-technical Practitioners' Guide (Management for Professionals)
by Louis-Philippe KerkhoveThis book provides retail managers with a practical guide to using data. It covers three topics that are key areas of innovation for retailers: Algorithmic Marketing, Logistics, and Pricing. Use cases from these areas are presented and discussed in a conceptual and comprehensive manner. Retail managers will learn how data analysis can be used to optimize pricing, customer loyalty and logistics without complex algorithms.The goal of the book is to help managers ask the right questions during a project, which will put them on the path to making the right decisions. It is thus aimed at practitioners who want to use advanced techniques to optimize their retail organization.
Data Driven Science for Clinically Actionable Knowledge in Diseases (Analytics and AI for Healthcare)
by Daniel R. Catchpoole Simeon J. Simoff Paul J. Kennedy Quang Vinh NguyenData-driven science has become a major decision-making aid for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Computational and visual analytics enables effective exploration and sense making of large and complex data through the deployment of appropriate data science methods, meaningful visualisation and human-information interaction. This edited volume covers state-of-the-art theory, method, models, design, evaluation and applications in computational and visual analytics in desktop, mobile and immersive environments for analysing biomedical and health data. The book is focused on data-driven integral analysis, including computational methods and visual analytics practices and solutions for discovering actionable knowledge in support of clinical actions in real environments. By studying how data and visual analytics have been implemented into the healthcare domain, the book demonstrates how analytics influences the domain through improving decision making, specifying diagnostics, selecting the best treatments and generating clinical certainty.
Data-Enabled Analytics: DEA for Big Data (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #312)
by Joe Zhu Vincent CharlesThis book explores the novel uses and potentials of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) under big data. These areas are of widespread interest to researchers and practitioners alike. Considering the vast literature on DEA, one could say that DEA has been and continues to be, a widely used technique both in performance and productivity measurement, having covered a plethora of challenges and debates within the modelling framework.
Data Enclaves
by Kean BirchThis book focuses on our increasing dependence upon Big Tech to live, manage, and enjoy our lives. The author examines how we freely exchange our personal data for access to online platforms, services, and devices without proper consideration of the implications of this trade. Our personal data is the defining resource of the emerging digital economy, and it is increasingly concentrated in a few data enclaves controlled by Big Tech firms, cementing an increasingly parasitic form of technoscientific innovation. Big Tech controls access to these data, dictates the terms of our use of their services and products, and controls the future development of key technologies like artificial intelligence. The contention of this book is that we need to rethink our political and policy approach to data governance and to do so requires unpacking the peculiarities of personal data and how personal data are transformed into a valuable asset.