Pam Askar, PhD, Author at Ironside Group

About Pam Askar, PhD

Pam Askar is an Engagement Manager for Data Science at Ironside.

Entries by Pam Askar, PhD

Top 4 Data Science Sessions of 2020: Part 3 of Take30’s One-Year Anniversary

Ironside’s Take30 with a Data Scientist series was typically targeted towards business leaders, with topics focused on strategy, including use-case development advice, de-risking AI with Data Science-as-a-Service, and ways to overcome common barriers to AI adoption. We also covered technical concepts like Model Evaluation and Feature Store Development. On top of that, we took several […]

May 12, 2021/by Pam Askar, PhD

Data Science

Introducing AscentAI from Ironside

Ironside is pleased to announce the release of a new packaged service AscentAI. For nearly 10 years, Ironside has offered data science expertise and advisory services to organizations who seek to establish AI within their enterprise. Now Ironside offers a powerful new service for organizations who are earlier in their AI journey. AI is becoming […]

January 27, 2020/by Pam Askar, PhD

Advanced Analytics for the Biopharmaceutical Industry

For players in the biopharmaceutical space, it is becoming increasingly clear that advanced analytics can be of enormous assistance in solving many of the unique challenges the industry faces. To understand the extent of the impact that advanced analytics can make, it’s first necessary to examine how healthcare in the US has undergone a major […]

September 6, 2017/by Pam Askar, PhD

Business Analytics, Data Management, Technology Spotlight

Why to Use Spark for Data Prep and Machine Learning

The immense amount of data being collected today, in any industry, expands the reality of advanced analytics and data science. In concept, it creates an explosion of opportunities and expands what can be accomplished. In reality, we are often limited in scope by our data processing systems which may not be able to handle the […]

May 17, 2016/by Pam Askar, PhD

Business Analytics, Data Science

Beyond Market Basket Analysis: Extending Association Rules

Do you ever wonder how Netflix makes recommendations for you? Or how the drug store decides which coupons to offer you when you make a purchase? Behind the scenes they have a data scientist conducting what is called market basket analysis, which searches through vast amounts of purchase history information to find patterns in people’s […]

January 11, 2016/by Pam Askar, PhD