Improve workplace performance and achieve group objectives through people analytics—the process of using behavioral data to understand and manage organizations. Under the instruction of two of the field’s pioneering experts, you’ll learn how to use your company’s data to increase the speed and quality of your decision-making, identify organizational problems, analyze behavioral metrics, and enhance company outcomes.
Explore innovative strategies for constructing and executing experiments—including factorial and fractional factorial designs—that can be applied across the physical, chemical, biological, medical, social, psychological, economic, engineering, and industrial sciences. Over the course of five days, you’ll enhance your ability to conduct cost-effective, efficient experiments, and analyze the data that they yield in order to derive maximal value for your organization.
Lead Instructor
Devavrat Shah is a professor with the department of electrical engineering and computer science, MIT. He is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and Operations Research Center (ORC), and the Director of the Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC) in IDSS. His research focus is on theory of large complex networks, which includes network algorithms, stochastic networks, network information theory and large-scale statistical inference.
Carlo Ratti is a Professor of Urban Technologies and Planning Director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab. In the last decade, Carlo has given talks around the world on the theme of Smart Cities, while his work has been exhibited in international venues including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum and Barcelona’s Design Museum.