MAN Huddle: 26/05/25

Описание: MAN Huddle: 26/05/25
Topic: Humans, AI and the Importance of Data Literacy’
With Dan Isaac, Data Literacy & Training Lead, Exeter University

Everyone is talking about AI, but people aren’t talking about the humans that use AI and the data that fuels it. In this talk, Dan aims to correct that by discussing:

The role of humans in evaluating AI
• Why AI tools and their human users should be evaluated as a singular system of distributed cognition
• The importance of prompt engineering
• Should we trust AI?
AI’s data problem
• "Garbage In, Garbage Out": AI will provide poor outputs unless it is fed from good data.
• How can we define 'good' data?
• Understanding Availability Bias for humans and AI
• The data challenge faced by 'legacy' organisation
• The knowledge gap between AI/Data Professionals and Business Leaders
Why humans need data literacy
• What is Data Literacy?
• Always asking "What does the data tell us?" when making a decision
• Data literacy is not intuitive and must be learned

Dan Isaac is the Data Literacy & Training Lead at the University of Exeter and a specialist in Data Visualisation, with a particular interest in the psychology behind effective data communication. Based at the University of Exeter, Dan has been delivering Data Visualisation training since 2013 and also teaching on the MSc Business Analytics programme at the University’s Business School.