Data

[close] This group will examine how an analytic approach can lead to better dating decisions. Our first book, Data, a Love Story: How I Cracked the Online Dating Code to Meet My Match, will focus on on-line dating. Synopsis: After yet another disastrous date, Amy Webb was preparing to cancel her JDate membership when epiphany struck: her standards weren’t too high, she just wasn’t approaching the process the right way. Using her gift for data strategy, she found which keywords were digital-man magnets, analyzed photos, and then adjusted her (female) profile to make the most of that intel. Then began the deluge—dozens of men who actually met her own stringent requirements wanted to meet her. Among them: her future husband, now the father of her child.

[close] The shared reading list of Axial's Product Designers, Managers, Data Scientists, Leaders, and Engineers

[close] Discussing factual evidence derived from events at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants in Japan, March 2011. Tokyo Electric Power Company executives, having ignored warnings about tsunami risks prior to building the facility, were later taken to court for their role in the events that devastated multiple communities. Trial winds up for ex-TEPCO execs; verdict set for Sept. 19 www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201903130041.html

[close] For discussion of books related to artificial intelligence, autonomy, privacy, data, machine learning - and other topics of interest to faculty, staff and students of the 3Ai at Australian National University.