Panelists: Brad Powley, Salesforce; Isaac Faber, MatrixDS; Dennis Buede, Innovative Decisions; David Blum, Next Tier Concepts; Stephen Malinak, TruValue Labs

Presented at the 2019 DAAG Conference in Denver.

Abstract: Decision quality has six elements, and only one has to do with information. So why all the fuss about data science? Does Data Science simply bring a new set of tools to the decision analyst’s toolkit, or are there more fundamental principles on offer? What should the modern decision analyst learn in order to remain relevant in a future with data ubiquity? What are the challenges Decision Analysis organizations face in order to leverage Data Science? Our conversation will address these, and related questions.

Keywords: big data bigdata, machine learning machlearn, artificial intelligence artint, analysis and modeling anamod