Powering Data Science with AI-Driven Tools and Practices
Webinar Speaker: Fern Halper, TDWI VP Research, Senior Research Director for Advanced Analytics
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. ET
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important to analytics, the data science life cycle must evolve to support greater scalability, efficiency, and accessibility—from data preparation and model building to deployment, communication, and governance. Today’s data teams face growing pressure to deliver faster while managing complex workflows, bridging skill gaps, and maintaining trust and transparency. Communicating results effectively through reports, visualizations, dashboards, applications, and technical documentation is also a critical part of this life cycle. Open-source tools such as R and Python remain at the heart of modern data science, but they can be complex to learn and use.
Join Fern Halper, Ph.D., VP of Research at TDWI, and experts from Posit and Databricks to discuss how AI-infused tools can help transform data science. Topics include:
- The role of open-source tools in enabling modern, flexible, and scalable data science workflows
- How AI and automation can help at every stage of the data science life cycle, from data preparation to governance
- How organizations can address skill gaps and empower broader teams through AI-infused tools
- How Databricks and Posit work together to help power data science
Guest Speaker
James Blair
Senior Product Manager
Posit
James is a Senior Product Manager at Posit, where he focuses on helping Posit commercial products seamlessly integrate into cloud platforms and environments. He has a background in statistics and data science and finds any excuse he can to write R code and ride his bike, although usually not at the same time.
Date: July 15, 2025
Time: 9:00 am PT
Fern Halper, Ph.D.