Category: Book Review
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Book Review: Data Strategies for Data Governance: Creating a Pragmatic, Agile, and Communicable Foundation for your Data Management Practice
Data Strategies for Data Governance: Creating a Pragmatic, Agile and Communicable Foundation for your Data Management Practice By Marilu Lopez, Technics Publishing, 2023 We all know that data will play an increasingly important role in all future operations. How you personally and your organization apply data to operations will be the difference between success and… Read more
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Book Review: Monetizing Data Management: Finding the Value in your Organization’s Most Important Asset
Monetizing Data Management: Finding the Value in your Organization’s Most Important Asset By Peter Aiken, Technics Publishing, 2013 What’s the Return on Investment (ROI) on data management? Sound like an impossible question toanswer? Not if you read this book and learn the value-added approach to managing enterpriseresources and assets. This book defines the five interrelated… Read more
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Book Review: Machines That Think: How AI Works and What It Means For Us
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: Machines That Think: How AI Works and What It Means For Us By Inga Strümke, Reinwerk Publishing, 2026 I came across this recently published book at my local library. Seems that I migrate to AI titles these days. The title sounded like another primer on AI but I decided to… Read more
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Book Review: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the DifferenceBy Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, Princeton University Press, 2024 The title may dissuade many AI advocates among you from picking up this book. Yes, it is a cautionary tale of the risks inherent… Read more
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Book Review: A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence By Kartik Hosanagar – published by Viking/Penguin LLC, 2019 Technology algorithms that power artificial intelligence assist in making our decisions about what products to buy, where we eat, what news we see, whom to date, and who we hire. The author explores the world… Read more
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Book Review: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI By Fei-Fei Li – published by Flatiron Books, 2023 This book is heralded as Financial Time’s best books of 2023 and the author, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, is noted as one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people… Read more
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Book Review: Four Battlegrounds: The Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Book Review by Frank Cerwin Four Battlegrounds: The Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Paul Scharre 2023, W.W. Norton & Co. The author, Paul Scharre is the vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security. He is a former Pentagon policy analyst and a former Army… Read more
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Book Review: The Rise of Big Data Policing
Book Review by Frank Cerwin: The Rise of Big Data Policing By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson from N.Y. University Press, 2017 How do you feel about being watched, surveilled, and tracked? How about knowing that you’re targeted as a potential victim? Or as a potential perpetrator of a criminal act? Obviously, a very interesting subject in… Read more
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Book Review: The Data Detective
Book Review by Frank Cerwin The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics By Tim Harford Riverhead Books, 2021; 279 pages. I have to admit that I’m a data geek if I’m reading books on statistics. However, if you’re a Data Scientist or interested in becoming one, this book is a must… Read more