Venture Into the Impossible with Analytics: Mark Abdollahian at TEDxLaSierraUniversity

More data has been collected in the past three years than the rest of human history combined.With this funny and informative talk, Mark Abdollahian makes understanding analytics simple and shows us how it can be used to create the future.

Dr. Abdollahian delivers advanced analytics for data-driven decision making. His global experience spans corporate strategy, national policy, economic development, finance, public-private partnerships, M&A and business process reengineering. He creates, architects and implements enterprise class data and strategy analytics used by the US Government, the World Bank and the United Nations as well as private sector companies worldwide.

He is Chief Executive Officer of Acertas, cofounder of Sentia Group and a Clinical Professor at the School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Abdollahian has bachelors degrees from Case Western Reserve University, and a Master's and Ph.D. in Political Economy and Mathematical Modeling from Claremont Graduate University. He is author of Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century, The Performance of Nations, and dozens of articles on data driven strategy across business, politics and economics. Dr. Abdollahian is a board member for several private and nonprofit enterprises, lecturing to audiences worldwide on strategy and analytics.

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