mParticle Education Series: Decision Making, Data, and Poker with Annie Duke
Annie Duke, a well-known decision scientist, and former professional poker player is on hand for a fireside chat.
Annie Duke, a well-known decision scientist, and former professional poker player is on hand for a fireside chat. This is a conversation about making decisions, alongside Michael Katz, CEO of mParticle. The conversation covers a range of topics including:
- Making decisions under conditions of uncertainty (which is where the tie to poker comes into play)
- Differences between complicated and complex decision-making scenarios
- How improving data quality improves the quality of decision making but it all depends on how you use it
- The role of educated guesses, narrowing the range, and CDPs
Unified data underpins really good decision-making.
Speaker:
Annie Duke
Author. Speaker. Decision Scientist
Annie is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space. In 2018 Annie’s first book for general audiences, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, quickly became a national bestseller. As a former professional poker player, she has won more than $4 million in tournament poker. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.