Scott Burk
Scott Burk
Contributor, The Yuan

Scott Burk is the founder of It’s All Analytics where he advises companies on creating the optimal data, AI and analytics architecture to maximize their objectives. His expertise is in solving difficult AI, statistical and analytical problems. He teaches data science at City University New York and is the author of four books on AI.

Three considerations for turning predictive models prescriptive
Optimization
This article is part four of the ongoing series: AI Prediction, AI Prescription and Causation in Medicine. Predictive and prescriptive models both have uses but transforming models into prescriptive ones leads to more valuable insights, explains CUNY data science Prof Scott Burk.
Scott Burk  |  Jun 01, 2023
Causation in AI applications in medicine, predictions, and prescriptions
Domain knowledge
This third article in the AI Predictions, AI Prescriptions and Causation in Medicine series addresses questions foremost in healthcare: How likely is the occurrence of events? What must be done to ensure certain outcomes ensue? Predictive AI and prescriptive AI hold the answers.
Scott Burk  |  Apr 03, 2023
Causation: The most misunderstood concept in AI
Optimization
This article is part two of the ongoing series: AI Prediction, AI Prescription and Causation in Medicine. Just as correlation and causation are often conflated, so too are predictive and prescriptive models. Data science expert and It’s All Analytics founder Scott Burk sheds light on the key differences, which are most applicable to which situations, and how to avoid misapplications.
Scott Burk  |  Feb 21, 2023
Purpose and intent: AI predictions, prescriptions, and causation in medicine - Part 1
Optimization
This is an introduction of a nine-part series on predictive and prescriptive AI and ML models in medicine. It introduces key terminology, shows how analytics are used, and the differing levels of human intervention needed, and highlights how clinicians working with AI and ML achieve optimal results, as data science expert and It’s All Analytics founder Scott Burk expounds.
Scott Burk  |  Feb 01, 2023
Algorithms, algorithms, algorithms
Domain knowledge
AI and analytics expert Scott Burk took a close look at the true nature of models and how they work in his first article in this series. He now turns his focus on algorithms, questioning what precisely they are, and what their key function is in many technical fields.
Scott Burk  |  Dec 05, 2022
Models, models, models
Cognition
Talk about models has always abounded, especially in recent years. AI models, ML models, statistical models, and others. People often use these terms in a very general sense, but what is a model, actually? The world deals with models unconsciously, all the time. Without them, people would have a hard time navigating their way through life.
Scott Burk  |  Nov 28, 2022